Progress Reel Finished!

Finally, i finished my progress reel from Class 1, i improved some animations and also rendered out everything. In just a few hours we'll start class 2!, let's see who will be my mentor and classmates :).

"The Cool Walk" 2/2 - Class 1 - Week 11

It's week 12…3 months!!! wow, that was fast. I'm happy because the term ends, but i'll miss my class, this is a strange thing to say 'cause i really don't know them personally, but well, it's true.

So here's my final assignment, the completed walk splined, with a little hop added in the middle, and in a 3/4 perspective, it took a long time but i really enjoyed this, i couldn't stop tweaking those tangents!.

This is my final Stu pose, the theme this week was "balance", i never did one of these poses so fast, it took me like 10-15 minutes!!!, that was crazy, 'cause i've been like 10 hours tweaking other poses, i don't know, i just stop when i'm really really happy with it, luckily that saved me some extra time for the animation. :)

Walk Cycle Completed

Stu Pose "Balance"

"The Cool Walk" 1/2 (Blocking) - Class 1 - Week 10

Really? week 11? wow!, it seems like i started AM a few days ago, again, somebody is messing with time, oh wait! i saw a black cat, i think it's a deja vu, yep, somebody is changing the code. (<- if you didn't understand you don't deserve to read my blog). Ok let's get serious now. The two languages in my blog… yep, that's killing me, so i'll have to say goodbye to...the spanish version, sorry, but it's too time consuming and i know you all out there understand english, i think it's close to 100% of you people.

We had to do the blocking for a personality walk cycle this week, it was fun, but at times frustrating, i wasted several days trying to decide which one of the 4 walk cycles i had in mind i was going to do, shot some video reference which helped immensely, but i ended up with the most boring one, this time i was a little reluctant of taking risks, but i was right, i was not going to be able to finish if i'd chosen one of the others, i'm not a super duper experienced animator, and this time we had no Bobby Beck to rely on, so in general the feedback i received was great, but i'm not satisfied, so i'll have to push it this week.

Also we had to make a pose with Stu showing exhaustion, i had to make two of them, again i was not satisfied with the first one :(, man, this week was tough for me!, i can feel it on my neck.

The lecture was a lot of fun, watching Carlos Baena do this crazy walks and explaining important concepts was very interesting. And that's it see you next week!. Below is the animation blocking, sketches and Stu pose.

Personality Walk Cycle (Blocking)

Exhausted pose (Sketches)

Stu Pose "Exhausted"

VSB-30 Sounding Rocket by Orly Wanders

This is a great 3D animation a good friend of mine did, and since it's so cool and well done, i though i'd post it here!. Enjoy

VSB-30 Sounding Rocket from Orly Wamders on Vimeo.