Blocking Plus Plus...PLUS

Still not polishing, but you have to work certain things out before you get to that point. I am ALMOST happy with what I am seeing, just a couple of things some friends and my mentor Dave Burgess pointed out that I am going to fix up and then on to polishing!

She Hit Me! - Blocking Plus Plus

I am supposed to be done polishing by this point for my deadline at school, but I had to take the extra time to really be satisfied with my blocking. Which I am now! Just a couple things to flesh out and I am on to polish, then facial animation. I really love how the girl is driving the scene and the guy is totally confused. I hope the emotions are reading!

Class 4: She Hit Me! - Blocking Plus

Here is my blocking plus. I have made some changes to the acting and also added some more keys to smooth the movements out. The mouth is also blocked out to get some kind of idea what that will be looking like. I also took the first two shots into 1st Pass Polish.

I am happy with my progress and how it is looking so far. It will be interesting to see how this shot looks in a couple of weeks!

Class 4: Expressions

These are expressions I took from photo to 3D:

Class 4: She Hit Me! - Layout

My next AM assignment is a 2 character dialogue shot. I found some great lines and I narrowed it down to this one. I really like it, it's been a lot of fun so far! I think the contrast in characters is really great and the confusion and slap is hilarious!

This is my Layout Pass:



Here is my animatic/thumbs I did before my 3D version:



and thumbnails:

Run-Jump-Roll

I did this piece last weekend as kind of a skill-speed piece. I wanted to see what I could do in a limited amount of time. I am really happy with it! Here it is...

Class 4: FLAMES Update

Here is my update of FLAMES...I worked on the body animation some more and also put in the eye/brow animation. Not finished, but getting closer!

Class 4: FLAMES Face Animation Blocking

These sketches are a study I did for the face animation for my FLAMES animation. I had a lot of fun acting it out and figuring out where to put the shapes. AND I have fun drawing again! I need to get back into it!



This is the blocked out version of my face animation. This version is to see if the basic shapes and timing is working.

Long Needed Update

This is my Animation Mentor school reel. Pretty much everything I have done outside of work in the past year is on this reel.

Class 3: Planning Sketches

Planning sketches for FLAMES:

Class 2: Session 5 Planning for Jump

Planning sketches for my Jump assignment:

Class 2: Session 2 Planning for Turn Around

Here is my planning sketches for the 180 turn around:

Session 2: Walk Cycles with Personality

Here I explored some possibilities for my personality walk cycle:

Class 1: Session 8 STRENTH Pose

Here are my sketches for strength:



Here is my 3D pose:

Class 1: Balance Poses

Here are my sketches for this weeks expression Balance:



And here is the 3D Pose: