Class 3 here we come....wow can not believe i am 6months into AM the first half of the year has gone by so quick. So this term it is time for more Body Mechanics (Advanced Body Mechanics) and needless to say i am look forward to it, have so many ideas for my assignments this term. The cool thing about this term is the choices we are given for our assignments we can choose a theme or come up with our own for each shot which is so cool, and i think it is great because as an animator you are animating something you want to animate.
I have a few ideas for my assignments this term and in an effort to push myself even more i really am going to try harder with my posts here on my blog as well, try update more different stages of each of my assignments. I really want to push myself this term so it is going to be long days and nights ahead....but the more you put in now the better it is in the long run.
Onto my mentor i originally had Paul Allen but due to time conflicts with my part-time class i have been switched to another Class mentored by Drew Adams. Drew is an animator at Dreamworks and as many of you know Dreamworks is one company i love so yes i am happy to be lucky to have Drew as my mentor. Drew previously worked for Disney, Reel FX and Duncan studio and has worked both in 2d and 3d, he is currently working on Kung Fu Panda 2. I am looking forward to this term and learning as much as i can from Drew and my fellow class mates.
This weeks lecture was conducted by ILM animator Rick O'Connor, Rick went through the process he uses at ILM to work on a shot. It was really cool to go through his process and learn a lot about your planning process....one thing i found really helpful was Rick does not pen up MAYA at all for the first day...this is for refernce footage and planning sketches. Despite what you plan on paper most of the time you have to edit your planning when it comes to putting your shot together in MAYA....a really cool lecture by an awesome animator and probably one of the funniest guys as well, so time for me to get back to my planning.
Rock On
