After working out the thumbnails, I went right in and redrew them using a grease pencil script that lets you draw in Maya. This thing is a big lifesaver. I pencil tested out my main poses and they seemed to get a positive responce on the forums. I’m pretty happy with how things are turning […]
I’ve been thinking about the dailog lines for the last few days. Bill Diaz, my mentor online chose number one as being the clearest and having the most intrest. it’s funny most of the votes were split down the line. I really couldn’t decide either, I had started to get a clear picture of all […]
This week has been searching for sound clips, and getting used to the model. OUr first assignment for the first week is to find some sounds clips that we will be animating for the next five weeks. We were to pick three lines of dialog with one character that shows interesting tempo and emotional range. […]
Avast ye maties.Ale me up a healthy dose o’ me grog!
Today being international talk like a pirate day we had a bit o’ fun on the forums. It was a great way to introduce the new students to some of the AnimationMentor wackiness. There are another 150_ students on the forum and I found it […]
Well. I’m not sure we were supposed to do this, but I modified our rig by adding some control for the tongue. Aggg this means I am learning rigging! I saw that there was a jointed tongue with no control handles. Anyways I used the set driven commands to create controls on the jaw control […]
AnimationMentor just stepped up another notch for me. Last night, the rig for our Introduction To Acting Class was posted online. Oddly enough I could almost feel the excitement of 200 people freaking out online as the news traveled via private message, AIM, e-mail, etc throughout the night and this morning. The model is great […]
Upcoming Pixar a blog dedicated to Pixar related news has posted an article about AnimationMentor. This includes a mix of material from the AM site and quotes from a responce e-mail I had sent. Good for the school - good for us.
AAAAgggghhhh!!! Saturday was the first quarterly AnimationMentor Barbeque. The AnimationMentor Headquarters is up in Berkely, CA. It was so great to see so many people excited about animation. There ended up to be about 80 people at one point, including spouses and such. We organized a group picture that went all the way up the […]
Well. This week wraps up our Body Mechanics. This means the end of Charles Allenneck as a mentor. Charles was a big help in planning shots and pointing out little glitches in our animations. I was really happy with our group of people too. Negas, Eric, Jimmy, Rex, Kenny, Shelly, Chris, Jeff, Tod. Even […]
This weekend finishes up the animations for my second term at AnimationMentor.com.Saturday involved a series of replanning and trying to correct what was wrong in the first concept. This is a really important thing to notice. Almost every assignment I have had some sort of misfire, wher I need more reference, or have to re-key […]
