AM 310: Hands

This week I had my eCritique done early on sunday night, which gave me the chance to spend my only night off work that week on this assignment... one of the main issues I had was the hands were the gimbal happened looked weird plus some pops in the head & spine that I had to refine, so I refined the hands & showed the progress to my mentor on the q&a, turned out that spent too much time with refining the hands, while it should be the last, so I had to go back and start with the character root, then spline, neck, head, then if I had a chance shoulders,elbows & hands...
but not necessary for this week, so I kept bumping back & forth between the root,spine,neck & head until I reached what I got here, didnt touch the arms yet...
so here the pre final refining pass & the surprised hand poses

AM 309: An Introduction to Entertainment

Unfortunately I'm posting this update late on week 11 instead of 9... Its was a crazy super insane 2 weeks for me, going out of blocking into splines and for the first time ever to face the GIMBAL LOCK monster ;) if I may call it...

I just discovered how painful fixing gimbal issues specially when the euler filter fails you, & having to go frame by frame tweaking this crazy wrist twists that I had when I moved out to splines,
of course I've learned now how not to get in the gimbal trap again, two important tips :
rotate each axis by itself & check every once n a while with switching the curves from stepped mode to linear early in the blocking stage, that will save you from such a disaster.

here's my first look at the gimbal, then my final assignment submission plus the relaxed hand poses.


































you can notice the gimbal in the wrist crazy twists



final first refining pass

UP

Finally the wait is over... I just got back from the opening of Pixar's latest feature " UP " simply a continuous amazing & breath taking story & picture, everything is AWESOME everything, It's just the boost I needed before going back to finishing my animation assignment for this week. I recommend this movie to Everyone & Enjoy it in 3D ;D


There was also this pretty cool short film at the beginning... amazing


Next on the calendar Toy Story 3, June 18 2010, we have to wait another year but it's gonna be amazing... the new teaser is out now & brings back memories of their first success

AM 308: Eyes & Blinks

Here's last week's assignment submission,
After the feedback from my mentor, alumni q&a, peer buddies...
I had to take out & simplify a lot of unnecessary poses & gestures, cropped the scene a bit to get rid of some negative space & here's the shot & the angry hand pose which is the second part of the assignment

AM 307: Assignment Submission

This is it, first pass of dialogue blocking
The feedback from AM's community helped me a lot
comments & critique are most welcome.



for a higher resolution here's youtube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVJy-nlBRSg