Now that I have all the time in the world :)
I'm burying myself Home, digging into all the resources I can find to learn more about animation & Maya. I'm a bit late to go through a VERY IMPORTANT TUTORIAL about How Splines Work.
The Splinophilia Tutorials by the GREAT VICTOR NAVONE Helped me gain the Graph Editor as a friend. After I understood the difference between the types of tangents and how the curves in the Graph Editor works with Timing & Spacing, IT'S LIKE MAGIC!!!
It's like something clicked and I become in control, I'M SO HAPPY
THANK YOU VICTOR NAVONE...
Here's a walk cycle test I'm just about to send out to my AM peers for critiques,
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Nov 10, 2010
Nov 7, 2010
Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures
here's some of the work I did for Classes 5&6 along with some bad news :(
The Animatic for my Short Film I did in class 5
The shots I ended up with end of class 6
I haven't posted in a while, and from the title of this post, something must've gone terribly wrong!!! well... not terribly wrong but definitely something's went in the wrong direction.
Transmitting this update for the first time overseas from JORDAN. Having to live the next 6 months here, back with my parents was the Desperate Measure I had to take about a month ago, when I got my final grade for my final class at Animation Mentor "Short Film Production"; Unfortunately NOT a passing grade.
Along the fact that I had to quit my job end of class 5, stayed unemployed for about 3 months only to dedicate all my time to finish my film. Failing the class was a MAJOR CRISIS I had to go through the five stages of DENIAL, ANGER, BARGAINING, DEPRESSION, and finally ACCEPTANCE. No need to illustrate more on each stage hehe but I went through a really hard time, until I realized what's the root of all the problems.
Trying to balance a full-time job & school is only slowing me down, Instead of advancing my skill set, I found myself learning by trial & error, only trying to make the deadlines, sometimes it worked but other times I was hitting the same barriers again and again, lost my passion at the end too, everything went wrong mainly when opening the Graph Editor, when moving out of blocking to splines.
I needed some time off to absorb the shock, I needed to go through my notes from previous classes, to go back to BASICS, the principles of animation, the bouncing ball exercise, a simple walk cycle, I needed to practice and experiment more, try out different work flows, different animation methods, reading the bunch of books I bought, Jason Ryan tutorials waiting for the play to click, mainly to apply what I have learned so far.
That's why I decided to take a break from Animation Mentor, go back to living with my parents in Jordan, then to retake class 6 on January Well prepared.
The Animatic for my Short Film I did in class 5
The shots I ended up with end of class 6
I haven't posted in a while, and from the title of this post, something must've gone terribly wrong!!! well... not terribly wrong but definitely something's went in the wrong direction.
Transmitting this update for the first time overseas from JORDAN. Having to live the next 6 months here, back with my parents was the Desperate Measure I had to take about a month ago, when I got my final grade for my final class at Animation Mentor "Short Film Production"; Unfortunately NOT a passing grade.
Along the fact that I had to quit my job end of class 5, stayed unemployed for about 3 months only to dedicate all my time to finish my film. Failing the class was a MAJOR CRISIS I had to go through the five stages of DENIAL, ANGER, BARGAINING, DEPRESSION, and finally ACCEPTANCE. No need to illustrate more on each stage hehe but I went through a really hard time, until I realized what's the root of all the problems.
Trying to balance a full-time job & school is only slowing me down, Instead of advancing my skill set, I found myself learning by trial & error, only trying to make the deadlines, sometimes it worked but other times I was hitting the same barriers again and again, lost my passion at the end too, everything went wrong mainly when opening the Graph Editor, when moving out of blocking to splines.
I needed some time off to absorb the shock, I needed to go through my notes from previous classes, to go back to BASICS, the principles of animation, the bouncing ball exercise, a simple walk cycle, I needed to practice and experiment more, try out different work flows, different animation methods, reading the bunch of books I bought, Jason Ryan tutorials waiting for the play to click, mainly to apply what I have learned so far.
That's why I decided to take a break from Animation Mentor, go back to living with my parents in Jordan, then to retake class 6 on January Well prepared.
Jun 23, 2010
Class 4: Last Assignment
A very late update of my progress in the advanced acting class,
starting with the Audio lines for the multi-character dialogue shot,
the final multi-character dialogue shot "VALIUM", the final for the "ZERO"
and a couple of the facial expression assignments.
Audio Lines
Multi-Character dialogue shot "VALIUM"
"Zero" Final dialogue shot
starting with the Audio lines for the multi-character dialogue shot,
the final multi-character dialogue shot "VALIUM", the final for the "ZERO"
and a couple of the facial expression assignments.
Audio Lines
Multi-Character dialogue shot "VALIUM"
"Zero" Final dialogue shot
Jan 11, 2010
Class 4: Advanced Acting / Jay Davis
My mentor for this class is JAY N. DAVIS, he was sequence supervisor for "HELL BOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY", before that a supervising animator for Disney's "Meet The Robinson's", he also worked as animator in "Kangaroo Jack", "Atlants: The Lost Empire", "Dinosaur", & "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
Starting with a late post of the first 3 weeks of this term, "Zero" dialogue shot almost done, I'm looking up audio lines for the multi-character dialogue shot. I'm also posting the facial expression assignments where we have to look up images that communicates a clear emotion & recreating it using the Bishop rig.
Dec 31, 2009
Adiós 2009
Here's the last post for the year 2009, so excited to start 2010 (Year 3 for me in the united states) hopefully more achievements, adventures, & good times to remember...
Looking forward to start Class 4 (Advanced Acting ) this Monday, & like every class excited to know who's my mentor, classmates, & finally learn how to add the facial performance, & how to deal with multi-character dialogue shots...Awesome stuff
Also looking forward to move to California hopefully this coming spring, I'll be counting the days...
And hopefully make it to Siggraph, ComicCon, & AM annual BBQ its going to be a great summer.
I'll end up my post with the final shot I had at the end of the class, not satisfied with the result, I'm still weak in the polishing phase, but I feel I gained more confidence & skills after redoing the class.
HAPPY NEW YEAR :D
CHEERS
Looking forward to start Class 4 (Advanced Acting ) this Monday, & like every class excited to know who's my mentor, classmates, & finally learn how to add the facial performance, & how to deal with multi-character dialogue shots...Awesome stuff
Also looking forward to move to California hopefully this coming spring, I'll be counting the days...
And hopefully make it to Siggraph, ComicCon, & AM annual BBQ its going to be a great summer.
I'll end up my post with the final shot I had at the end of the class, not satisfied with the result, I'm still weak in the polishing phase, but I feel I gained more confidence & skills after redoing the class.
HAPPY NEW YEAR :D
CHEERS
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