Week 6

Apparently I was a week behind in the titles of my posts! I don't know how I managed that.

Anyway, week 6 has been quite excellent so far. I still haven't gotten a good schedule down (in that I do most of my work Friday/Saturday/Sunday, because that's when I have time), but I'm definitely improving.

This week, I did the pendulum and a revision of my obstacle course.

Here they are:



The platform gave me so much trouble. It was insane. I spent 45 minutes on the pendulum bit, and two days on the platform. Does that seem right to you?



I realized too late that I followed the first set of instructions my mentor gave me instead of the revised set. It still looks leaps and bounds better, though, so I hope it'll be okay.

And, as a special treat to myself for making it halfway through Class 1 of Animation Mentor, I put together a compilation of the animations I've done so far!



I have been improving and it's amazing to see.

Week 4 & 5 - Obstacle Course & Pendulum

Week 4 was craaaaaazy. The last IGF crunch for CvZ and Halloween and a difficult assignment. I am ashamed to say I know I could have done better on this one. Thank goodness for revisions.

Here are my sketches and final pose for "devastation":

Anthony said to make it less profile/symmetrical, but overall that it was good. I keep on putting too much stock in silhouettes, apparently.

And my 'final' obstacle course ball:





It's not amazing. The bounces are a bit jumpy and the timing is off. The ending doesn't hold to proper physics either. I need to revise it for next week, so expect to see something prettier sometime soon.

Onto Week 5! A better week, a happier week!

This week... we're doing overlap! Woo! Not to toot my own horn all Mazeppa-style, but this is one of my strengths.

And here we are, my wonderful planning for this assignment! (I would show my reference video, but I didn't put on pants before filming it.)

And there we go. Next week is Tailor, the bouncing ball & tail!