AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio Week 2

So based on last week's critique, Kevin advised me to start this term by flushing out the mechanics of the tennis serve shot, and on top of that shot to re-stage the "Valium"shot, It's still floaty,choppy & mechanical but less distracting.

AM Animal & Creature Animation Class

Today Animation Mentor announced the launch of the long waited Animal & Creature Animation Master Class,

Trailers & info about the class here

This Animals & Creatures course is over two 12-week classes, students learn how to animate quadrupeds, flying animals, fantasy creatures and nonhuman characters. Students use three new advanced character rigs provided by Animation Mentor and learn how to integrate animation into live-action footage. Students will learn professional workflow techniques and receive face-to-face mentoring from top creature animation talent working in the industry today. Students also have access to a rich library of lectures where animators examine their shots from feature films and share tricks of the trade!

AM's PURE AWESOMENESS :D

AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio / Kevin Koch

My mentor for this class will be Kevin Koch; with 14 years in the animation biz. He started out doing traditional, hand-drawn animation, first at Warner Bros. Feature Animation, then at DreamWorks. While at DreamWorks he transitioned to CG animation, and worked on 'Shrek 2,' 'Madagascar,' and 'Over the Hedge.' Most recently he animated on 'Rio' at Blue Sky Studios, and he's now at Rhythm &Hues on 'Hop.'


Just submitted the first assignment for this class, a compilation of almost all the shots I did at AM, the first 4 are my pick for what I think of as "Money Shots" ( of course when polished end of this class).

I'm extremely excited to start this class now that I have the graph editor on my side :D also having a chance to be a full-time student is a HUGE bless I'm very THANKFUL for my PARENTS support.

on the down side the internet is VERY SLOW here in JORDAN!!! I'll upload the reel tomorrow,

& The Preparation continues

15 days to start the polishing & portfolio class at AM and the preparation continues...

Here's the Happy go lucky almost done,


For the dialogue shot "Zero", I worked on the first part


Still Fixing the tennis serve

Preparation for Polishing & Portfolio Class

Here's an update on what I've been working on in preparation for Animation Mentor's Polishing & Portfolio class. Other than experimenting with walk cycles, I'm going back to my old shots and slowly cleaning up all the mess, also been learning how to create textures and how to render out my shots, not that fancy but something nicer, instead of the default naked bishop rig.
All in preparation to polish it under the supervision of another amazing AM mentor.

here's a teaser for my dialogue shots "Zero" & "Valium"














And here's an almost done walk cycle, Happy Go lucky attitude walk



And finally a "Before-After" wip of the Sticky Door Assignment