Class 4 - Week 4

Week 4 oh man what a week...it has been great and busy and the feedback i have recieved has helped alot. This week we had a relief mentor as Mike was moving to Seattle for work...so Mario Pochat stepped up to the plate and hit a home run, great Q&A and awesome crit given on my work.

Here is my first polish pass of my shot for this week...a fair bit has changed due to the frame range and needless to say i am happy where it is heading...so here is my shot for the week.

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Class 4 - Week 3

Another week of AM gone dam time is going by quick... It is true what they say at AM the more feedback you give the more you will receive and by doing this you learn a lot more and also pick up on areas you have missed in your shot. My peers and mentor have been a big help this week in helping me address the areas where my animation was lacking.

Due to the feedback i received the characters hat is gone and the animation has changed slightly, trying to portray an emotion change without facial animation is difficult and when you are limiting yourself with prop use it is even harder...but that's where the animator comes out in you.

This week we also had an awesome lecture with Rebecca Stockley about improv acting...a really good insight of how to get into character. It was really great hearing all that she had to say about differnet types of movement which can determine what typ of character you are animating or trying to become.

Ok time to get back to it...this week it is time to spline away!

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Class 4 - Week 2

Initial blocking for my first acting piece....only have key poses and a few breakdowns to begin with and some rough timing. From the feedback i have recieved i have been told it will be hard to try get the emotion across and story without props...but it is a challenge i am willing to take. I am not going to outline the story here until the final week i really want my audience to understand what is going on without knowing the story.

Next comes blocking plus....so lets get to it.

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Class 4 - Week 1

So Class 4 here we come.....time to move from Body Mechanics into Acting, needless to say i am a bit nervous as i know my acting choices at times have been a little cliche....so really going to try push myself harder this term.

This terms class mentor is Mike Belzer, Mike started out as a Stop motion animator and has worked on such movies as " Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach" from there he gained his first taste in CGI at Pixar before moving onto Disney where he worked for 12 years. At Disney Mike was the Supervising Animator on such projects as "Meet the Robinsons" and "Bolt".

I am rerally looking forward to learning all i can from Mike as from previous students i have heard he really helps you grasp the character you are trying to portray, their emotion and back story...can not wait for this term.

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