April 5, 2007 — Comments are off for this post.
After three month of abstinence I finally restart with AM and I'm super exited about my new mentor who is Randall Cook. He is in the industry for over than 30 years. I hope to learn a lot from his experience and advises.
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The actual assigment is a 180° Turn Around for which we have four weeks to complete it. The first week the video reference and the planning had to be done.
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December 18, 2006 — Comments are off for this post.
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Hey everybody, because I was pretty busy doing the latest AM assignments I didn't update the blog for a while :sad_wp:. But last Friday the first term ended and therefor I found time to post my latest assignment ... my progress reel, which includes all the stuff I had done in the first term ... hope you like it :wink_wp:
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Furthermore I want to thank my mentor Dimos, who is a super nice and funny guy ... the Live Q&As were awesome. And to everyone else who helped me on my assignments: Adrian, Andre, Andrew, Andy, Arash, Barni, Bine, Bryan, Charles, Dan, David, Digger, Donnett, Francesco, Heng, James, Jeremy, Jesse, Khaldoun, Kimberly, Kristina, Kristopher, Lenin, Miles, Nathan, Philip, Remi Rockstar, Romulo, Ryan, Sara, Steph, Suzanne, Tim, Valdi
November 20, 2006 — Comments are off for this post.
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This week was about walk cycles. Therefore we had to block out a vanilla walk, to understand the principles of a walk.
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The more interesting port of this assignment was the pose we had to create, the topic was strength. To my mind it's pretty hard to find a pose which communicates strength in a not cliché way. My aim was to create a pose which shows mental strength ... Stu will die but he tryes helping Tailer to survive.
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November 13, 2006 — Comments are off for this post.
This assignment was about ARCS & PATH OF ACTION. Therefore we get a new character named Tailor. This is a simple ball with a tail. Because loving a snappy animation style and being a big Scrat (the squirl like character from Ice Age) fan I used the first Ice Age trailer as a reference for my assignment. The aim was to give Tailer a similar animation style such as Scrat has. Hope you like it!
November 5, 2006 — Comments are off for this post.
Ok, here it is ... In Germany Halloween is not a big thing, but while watching the Simpsons Halloween special I get the idea for the latest assignment, so I hope you enjoy it :devil_tb:
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This assignment covers OVERLAPPING ACTION, again one of the 12 Principles of Animation.
October 30, 2006 — Comments are off for this post.
This week the assignment covers Anticipation and Squash & Stretch. Therefore a bouncing ball had to go through an obstacle course on which we had to apply the basic function of anticipation by using Squash & Stretch. Anticipation is on of the keys to escaping the 'robotic' feel of poorly done computer animation and can give weight and physical believability to a character.
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Additional Assignments:
Sketchbook page with dynamic poses | Devastationary pose
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October 23, 2006 — Comments are off for this post.
This assignment is about TIMING. Therefore I had to animate two balls (one heavy the other light) without using SQUASH & STRETCH.
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Timing is the rate at which something gets from one point to another. It is one of the 12 Principles of Animation.
October 22, 2006 — Comments are off for this post.
With the second Animation Mentor Assignment I finally start to animate... Yeah ;). The business of the scene was to create a bouncing basket-, football. I added a leg which kicks the ball to make the shot more interesting. Hope you like it 🙂
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A sketchbook page and a pose of Stu had to be done as well:
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October 21, 2006 — Comments are off for this post.
It's done ...uff... my first AM assignment :biggrin_wp:
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My AM Mentor for the next three month will be Dimos Vrysellas. He worked on several DreamWorks feature films like Shark Tale - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron - The Road to El Dorado - The Prince of Egypt. For more information check out his website www.dimos.ca!
