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First blocking done 🙂 - I decided to realize the first idea with Stuwie as a criminal and Tailor as the police trying to catch Stewie. This time I tried to make the animation more cartoony.

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Assignment 204 was about finishing the assignment started in the first week and planing the next shot, which is about Stuwie (without arms) crossing a canyon trough some posts. Therefore we had to record a video reference again and plan everything on paper as always.

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Unfortunately I'm not able to do a front flip, therefor the weird cuts in the video. For the flip reference I created an animated '.gif' using some of the 'Muybridge - The Human Figure in Motion' Photographs.

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Here are my first ideas on the next assignment

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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

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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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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!

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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.

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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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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.

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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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