Damn…where is the time going? It’s already week 3!

Animation Mentor is no joke that’s is about as plain as I can put it. If you don’t put the time in, if you don’t study, if you don’t practice…don’t expect to breeze through. Animation in general demands your utmost attention and if not given it will show.

And that folks is why I have not been blogging. I have been busting my arse going through lectures, filming video reference, emailing campus mentors for extra feedback etc etc. The only reason why I even have a moment now is because I’m waiting on feedback from my main mentor. I really need to get started on this weeks assignment.

All in all this is sooooooo much fun! I love this stuff and just cant get enough of it.

Ok, so the first assignment for class 2 was a pick list of several choices. I decided to go with the 180 turn. Below I’ve posted my video ref and my current blocking pass. Originally I had thumb-nailed about 40+ different poses. Then I earlier in the week I blocked those thumbnails as my first pass.

As the week progressed I started to get some really good feed back and ended up cutting out quite a bit. What remains is the what you see below…I actually had the toe tapping and extra side to side stuff going in the original one.

Bottom line was that the assignment was to turn the character around. I had way too much going on for just a simple 180.

On another front, in my limited spare time I’ve been teaching myself After Effects….friggin awesome…my head just wants to explode hahaha. Love the tool…anyone want to buy my copy of Mirage? LOL…serious. I’ll let the license go for dirt cheap too.