Archive for March, 2006

polishing performance

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Advanced Acting–Week 11
Yeah, these last two weeks have been busy. I’ve been really fighting to get some good movement into this animation assignment. The polishing stage is where I spend the most time. This is the last week for Class 04 at AnimaitonMentor.com. Unfortunately, this assignment really kicked my butt and although things are coming […]

bittersweet bang.

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Tonights class at bang. was our last class of the first session. The last with Sabrina. Endings are always bittersweet. Our topic was transformation, and we to try to find methods of transitioning from one scene to another of a completely different nature. I got to test out my mommy skills. Apparently, I didn’t push […]

Even Spacing

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

Advanced Acting–Week 09
This is the soupy stage for me, where I have tended lose track of technique. This starge deals with how to get the eases into the body. One method is to break everything down to individual frames and really just keep going with the poses, thinking about the eases as you go. For […]

Stepping into Splines

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Advanced Acting–Week 08
Well, I just started pulling this out of stepped tangents and into spline tangents. I’m trying a different method of this transition, and so far, I’m not quite happy with it. I think that the movement feels very fast and the arcs have gotten really busy and choppy. There are some twisting issues […]

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