Week 11.... the Final Walk Skip cycle animation

  Oh man what a week this last have been. I can assure you I had to redo my original skip cycle, and spent just a few hours under 24 on the computer cranking this thing right... Letting go of certain frames or even a whole set of Key frames got easier as my mind plunge deeper into how the animation should move.
  For the times when I felt the animation was off, thank goodness there is google+, and some awesome feedback from fellow animation students . Of course I had the AM site to give me great feedback too, the feedback was everywhere. Heck I would even jump out of my chair from time to time and attempt the same motion of Skip I was trying to do. All these things helped alot I am not going to lie.
  I was able to attend a QnA with 2 animators who worked on Cars 2, hearing there story of how they got into Pixar was very inspiring. I really enjoyed when they talked about there workflow and how they would approach the animation, I found it insane(in a good way) that one of them would do straight ahead animation for most of there shots during Cars 2. Its awesome to me cause honestly this is what I ended up doing on my Skip.  The best thing I took away from all of this is

Don't be afraid to delete keys and redo the whole animation, in the long run this will only help you

Enjoy the balance Pose and my walk skip cycle.

The Sketches

The Pose

The Animation

Forgot about week 10

So I just got finish with a awesome Q&A with Jim Brown and Brian Mendenhall, who was just sharing there experience in the animation world. Some inspiring stuff came out from them, like the biggest fear for them are the up and coming new animators aka the AM students (lol). That aside I realize, well I didn't post my week 10 turn in, so here it is.
A little description about the assignment: So we got to do a character walk of our choice and I decided to do a skip type walk. also our poses is a exhausted pose here are the final with the sketch

The Exhausted Pose

The Exhausted Sketches

The  Skip Planning

The Blocking

The ReBlocking

(This was redone earlier today, figure I throw it up too)

WEEK 9 turn ins

holy moly does the weeks flyby!!!
This week assignment was to clean and polish that vanilla walk while doing a concern pose. honestly the animation wasn't as hard as doing the pose, I looked at what other students have done and even went out looking for people that were concern out in the world. But then I ask myself to define concern, I wrote down a list of things I thought it meant still wasn't good enough. Grabbing a Webster dictionary and reading the definition made me think concern doesn't have to be sad or scared, but really the human who is concern shares some of that emotion and is engage with the thing they are interacting with.

Crazy .......I know all this for a silly pose =]

Enjoy

here are the sketches and the pose to follow

I realize that I never uploaded my thumbnail sketch for my vanilla walk here that is with the animation

Week 8 "walks" & Rango QnA

This last week we had to do a walk cycle, but just not any kind of walk cycle a vanilla walk cycle. Holy-crap this was harder then eating a mud pie with worms for toppings. I quote my mentor "it is easier to make a caricature type walk then it is to keep it a vanilla walk." I think also at the same time it was kind of easy, cause this is just blocking so I am only really working with 5 frames/poses, then recreating them for the rest of the walks. The stu pose was suppose to be strength, I don't know if I nailed it.

There was a special QnA with two animators from Rango this past weekend, that was awesome they gave a lot of info on things that they animated. One of the best things was talking about character design, and how they can help or make you work for great animation. They also gave such great insight about the industry.
This movie is in my top 5 favorite 3d feature films, and if you haven't seen it go rent it or buy it. You might find yourself thinking "what the, did they just say that?" in a funny kind of way. They give a lot of reference to western flicks so if you like that stuff you will love this.
Enjoy

Strong Pose

Walk Cycle

Week 7 > > > > > > Week 8

I am a little behind on my posting of assignments, but this last week was crazy. My nephew was married and I basically finish this project at the wedding reception. This is what I turn in for week 7. I already got my feed back already from my mentor and it was a some great feedback. He wants it simpler, as far as assignment goes. Keeping it Simple, this is so hard to do cause I got ants in me that want to dance out animation. By the way I tried to make the ball that took out the pendulum come for tailor.

Enjoy

The Thought Process

The Animation

Week 6.....WHAAAAAT(in a minion kind of voice)

For whatever reason you tube wouldn't let me upload my assignment from week 6 on Sunday, and now I am just getting around to it today. This last week assignment was awesome in a challenging point of view, my mentor wanted us to think about what was the motivation of the movement to the pendulum. We didn't need a model or things there in the animation, he just didn't want something to move with out a reason behind it. Mine was a bird carrying the pendulum, yes I realize now that any bird can move and fly differently, next time I will name the bird instead of keeping it soooo vague. my references was a very flimsy yoyo that was perfect for this.

The Animation

The Thought Process

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Week 5 into Week 6

This last weekend was so busy for me that I forgot to post what I turn in for week 5. Here is the obstacle course and the pose.

Stu Devastated !!!

Here is my Obstacle Course for Week 5