LOA Week 8: Tennis Serve

I'm trying to get back to my animating routine, warming up to retaking class 3(which I passed but I don't feel I'm ready to start class4 so I'm retaking the class again)... school is on the corner, should start again end of september.

I stopped working on the walk cycle, I feel like starting something from scratch & I have this Tennis Serve tutorial by Jason Ryan, which I think is cool & exciting, both the rough 2D animation planning the shot for 3D,

This is just the rough key frames, tomorrow I will work on some clean up, then start the inbetweens...& the timing is not final yet... once I get this done then taking it to 3D

LOA Week 5: Walk Cycle WIP

I have added the breakdowns to the walk, this is not the final blocking, I need to tweak the poses, add more details & make sure everything is good before taking it to splines.
here's what I have so far in perspective,side, & front view.
Comments & critique most welcome

LOA Week 5

Finally started some animation practice, YAY!!!
while going through one of the Gnomon Workshop DVD Tutorial
( CHARACTER ANIMATION: FUNDAMENTALS with Chris Kirshbaum )

which had some good reviews in 3DWorld magazine, I decided to work on a walk cycle, basic & important task that I'll need to practice, try out the different & unlimited options I have in creating a walk cycle.

So far the tutorial is good but comparing to what I've learned in AM there's so many things missing, unless he he left it for the refining phase, at AM we tend to block it from the beginning, for example the hips rotations! so far nothing on the hip rotations.But I learned some new Maya commands which is very useful.

I only blocked the contacts & pass position & will work on the breakdowns tomorrow...



btw this tutorial won't provide any rig to work with so I'm using Bishop

LOA Week 2

Alright...
Its hard to spend enough time animating when you don't have any deadlines arrrrrggggg!!!
I come back from work & just chill, so tempting specially with the summer activities all over.

I was planning to start my animation practice with the basic bouncing ball exercise, both in 2D & 3D, I want to have a rough 2d planning to my shots as part of my work flow just like Jason Ryan's tutorials (check out his website)...but I ended up with 2D for this week.

you might think redoing a bouncing ball exercise is a waist of time, for me It was so helpful, I only did this exercise at the beginning of AM & back then I was trying to understand Maya & the basic animation principles in a bouncing ball, with redoing this I understood things more, & practiced flipbook a bit...

here's a simple my 2D bouncing ball & at the end I added tail to the ball for some overlapping action



hopefully this wee will be more constructive

Away for the Summer

Alright... Alright !!!
I'm currently on Leave of Absence (LOA) from Animation Mentor,
I have decided to take a break for a bunch of reasons, mainly to go over what I've learned so far marking half way through this great journey, practicing animation polish more, enjoy the summer & charge my batteries for next term, which might be a retake of class 3, I'm not sure yet...


Anyways here's my progress real at the end of class 3