Class 1, Week 12....

Final Week of Class 1, I swear I blinked and it was over.....   Our assignment this week was to compile all our work for the entire class into a progress reel.

Class 1, Week 11....

Our assignment this week was to refine our Personality walk and to show it from a 3/4 perspective as well as pose a character demonstrating balance. I also did a revision of my exhaustion pose.

Class 1, Week 10....

Our assignment this week was to Block out a personality walk, and pose a character showing exhaustion. I also did a revision of my concern pose.

Class 1, Week 9....

Our assignment this week was to refine the Vanilla Walk and pose a character showing concern.

Class 1, Week 8....

Our assignment this week was to Block out a Vanilla Walk and to pose a character demonstrating a display of strength.

Class 1, Week 7....

Our assignment this week was to animate Tailor doing a few bounces to demonstrate overlapping action with the tail.

Class 1, Week 6....

Our assignment this week was to animate a pendulum moving to show overlapping action. I also did a revision of   my devastation pose.

Class 1, Week 5....

Our assignment this week was to animate a ball moving through a obstacle course of our choosing and to pose a character showing Devastation.

Class 1, Week 4....

Assignment this week was to animate two bouncing balls, one heavy and one light, I also did a revision of my excitement pose.

Class 1, Week 3

This weeks assignment was to revise our pose from last week according the suggestions from our mentor.

In addition to the revisions we were also to Sketch some poses showing excitement, and then post Stu accordingly.

Then we were to sketch out and plan a bouncing ball animation, then actually go in and animate it.

Class 1, Week 2.....

Our assignment this week was to go out and just sketch people, then to pick one of those sketches and pose Stu in that pose. I am showing a whole series of images of the different attempts I made at capturing the pose, was very challenging getting the rig to cooperate in the way I needed it to for the pose.

Few sketches, I know they are bad but gotta start somewhere.....

First draft of sketches, all feedback is welcome...

Class 1 is finally upon us.....

Really slacked off of here during the break from Springboard and now I have already started Class 1. Mentor is Chad Stewart, really awesome guy, been both a 2D and 3D animator for like 19 years now with a rather impressive resume. First week was just to introduce ourselves and get used to the site. Just now starting second week and need to get out and sketch some poses to then pose our Rig Stu with.

The Matrix has you........

CTN Expo November 18-20th

CTN Expo

Some more exciting news, in November I will be heading to the CTN expo in Burbank California and immediately following that will be heading to Disney Land. There I plan to meet many of my fellow AM classmates as well as countless others in the industry.

AM Eager Beavers

AM Eager Beavers


Can't believe I never posted this before.....this is an awesome group of fellow AM'ers. Started by my friend Pascal.

Springboard has come to an end......

It is with both Excitement for moving on, and sadness for a great class ending that I post this.  This was truly a great  experience for I had a wonderful teacher who went above and beyond every single time, doing tutorials and such on his own time for us and also going well over the 1 hour class in most cases by at least another hour. My classmates were an incredible group of people that helped me learn and make it a great learning experience and loads of fun at the same time. Now I do feel much better prepared for what lies ahead having somewhat familiarized myself both with Maya and with how AM works.

One small step for one leg, One giant step for a newbie animator......Session 11 Week 10

Our assignment this time was to use the One Leg rig provided to us and to have him make a single step.

Clean Up on Aisle 10.......Session 10 Week 9

Our assignment for this session was to clean up the animation and do all the inbetweens to complete the blocking we started in the previous section. In addition to the original animation I also made a variation. Of course I should also mention again that the last assignment did not involve the arm actually picking up the can and moving it simply to go through the motions, and this assignment was to actually do the constraint to have the arm pick up and move the can, but I did that in the previous assignment :)

And then there was a Robotic Arm.......Session 9 Week 8

Our assignment this session was to Block out the Animation for a Robotic Arm picking up a cylinder and placing it on a platform.

And now Ladies and Gentlemen....The Ball Bounce......Session 8 Week 8

Our assignment for this session was to animate a Bouncing Ball, nothing fancy just a basic bounce. Then we were to duplicate that one and double the height of the bounces so as to have two bouncing balls.  I of course had to be difficult and incorporate squash and stretch as well as rotation and give my ball a face.....

More animation fun.....Session 7 Week 7

This session our assignment was to use a ball provided by AM to animate it moving in a circle, I also decided to modify it and make it travel in a spiral pattern. Our trainer also had us continue to work on our ball bounce.

First Crack at Animation....Session 6 Week 7

For this session our assignment was to create a sphere and move it around randomly in space, simply to get the hang of animating and key frame work. In addition to the regular assignment our trainer asked that we also  animate a ball bounce.

First Crack at Lighting....Lighting Assignment Session 5 Week 6

This sessions assignment was to add lighting to our scene, I may have got carried away experimenting with different things as you can see by the excessive amount of renders. But I am having a LOT of fun with it so I don't really care hehe.