Week 3: Advanced Overlap & Anticipation

In last week lecture more about overlapping action & anticipation, some great examples and analysis...I'm learning so much from this material... Great stuff

The assignment last week was very frustrating, I kept working on re-blocking my shot, I finished the blocking stage on Saturday almost midnight which gave me a little time to work on the splines,(assignment due sunday noon) where all the problems start to show up! but I managed to pull it up and fix some of the problems, but yet I have so much for this week to finish up the animation.

Here's my progress from re-blocking phase to my assignment submission

Week 2 Assignment Submission

Since I decided to use flipbook (First time ever)to plan my animation which stole some time from me,I had to block the part were ballie get scared and turn around then run, I wanted to focus on the 180 turn and get it done first
so I didn't have time to finish the intro were ballie looks to the side and see whatever the thing that scares it away... the intro which was finished in the 2D planning...

last night just before I went to work, my animation blocking in maya was terrible, So when I got back this morning I spent a couple of hours finishing up & tweaking, and now after I have submitted the assignment Its time to go to bed!!! So tired

here's the assignment

Week 2 Assignment Update

Slight Update on the 2D blocking, Its taking me some time to get used to it
So I jumped to 3D blocking in maya, It's still not finished, I need to finish the 180 turn and the jump run out of the frame then go back to the intro where Ballie get scared...I'll post the finished assignment tomorrow.

Week 2: Basic Posing

Half through week two, pretty great lecture as usual, all about posing in terms of composition,Line of Action,Silhouette,& Negative Space plus more... great examples too

First Critique on assignment was good, some tips about what to wear when shooting video reference, and about framing my shot in the thumbnails

a late but an awesome discovery, FLIPBOOK, what a great software Thanks to a tutorial I bought from JASON RYAN ANIMATION website, great stuff, I bought flipbook and It will be part of my planning for animation in 2D before jumping to 3D. Amazing
here's my first test, timing is off but and still more to come

Week 1 Assignment Update

I have decided to work on the 180 Turn/scared1 the second one which my back is to the audience. I have recorded more reference video for this pick & will breakdown for animation reference.I will start working on the thumbnails once I have something to eat.
I have also updated my Class1 Reel, just added some music and titles
here's the videos