Hey guys, so again I don't have the pose a day challenge poses ready for this blog post. I think I'll go back and add them to the post at a later time when I actually have more time. For this past week though, we had to create our first blocking pass of our new animations!
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For this assignment, I wanted to try using one of the imp characters, and let me tell you, they are pretty different! It was an interesting experience using this rig to create the poses I needed, it might have even been a little easier! Here's what I submitted for my first blocking pass...
And now I have to continue to make tweaks and create the blocking plus pass!
Why, hello there everyone! For this past week, we had to submit our "final" versions of our second assignment, as well as all the planning items for our next assignment. And yes, I actually did some pose of the day challenge poses this past week too!
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So here's the final version of my animation that I submitted...
I added some holds to some of the actions and well as fleshed out some of the arcs on the hands/feet/waist/ax and I think it turned out pretty well. I'll still need to make some changes that Steve suggested in my most recent critique but that will be after I complete my next assignment.
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And on to the next assignment! This next one will have the character walk in with a heavy object, lift to place the heavy object on the shelf, and then extend the character's reach so that the character can push the object into place. I'll be using one of the imp rigs for this one so the sketches won't really reflect what the character looks like, but more just the events that will be happening in the animation. First off, here's the reference video...
And yes, that part where I jump back is the box falling from where it was placed onto the ground in front of me. And here are the sketches I created from the reference footage...
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This week's pose a day challenge theme was weight bearing. I'll be honest, I wasn't able to find many photos or videos of this that I liked, I don't know, maybe I just wasn't searching as hard as I could have. So for this past week I only have 3 poses and here they are...
Hey guys! So this past week we had to create our blocking plus pass for our animations. We also had another theme for the pose a day challenge, but honestly, my week was crazy and I ended up completely forgetting to do the challenge, whoops!
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So for this assignment, I decided to treat the blocking plus pass as the first pass of the splining process. I figured that that would give me a head start on this next week's assignment of polishing and bringing everything to spline...
So there it is, this post ended up being pretty short without the pose challenge, I'll have to remember to do that this week haha! Have a great week!
Hello everyone! For this past week we had to create the first blocking pass of our new assignment. I also had to shoot additional video reference for mine because I changed the beginning slightly from what you guys saw last week. For the pose a day challenge, this week's theme was squash, so mostly scrunched up poses or anticipation poses.
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Alright, so here is the new reference video that I shot for this assignment...
You'll notice the end changes because now I have it so that she will pull the ax out of a tree stump, pick up only one piece, and examine it. I was not really thinking when I did my original planning about how long it would actually take if I was going to have her pick up both pieces, turns out it would take way more time than I have. So since I already have to have her walk over to get the piece of wood, I opted for the simpler ending. Here's what I submitted earlier today for my blocking pass...
You may notice her hands look a bit like paddles flailing about through the animation. That's because I didn't animate the fingers on all the poses yet, just some of the major ones.
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And now for the pose a day challenge! As mentioned above, this past week's theme was squashed poses. I used various different sports to find my pose inspirations this week...
Well that's all folks! Have a great week everyone!
**P.S. You may have noticed the CTNx 2014 button I added to my widgets to the right of my blog page. I'm going to the CTN Animation Expo this year, November 21-23, in Burbank, California! I know it's like 7 months away, but I'm so freakin' excited!**
