Aaaand here’s my assignment hand-in for this week! It’s a relatively quick spline pass. Obviously there’s plenty to do so I’m glad we’ve got an extra week of polish – I have a feeling I’m going to need it!
I really need to start working more efficiently or something. I’ve lost 1.5 days of glorious British sunshine to this thing! I’m off to enjoy what’s left of the day!
Ok, so I finally gave in and decided to take a look at Twitter. Up to this point I had been wondering what it’s purpose was exactly. To me, it just seemed to be Facebook status updates without all that other gumpf that surrounds FB (No, I do not want to join your shitty group or add your stupid application – leave me alone!).
Of course, status updates are the very best thing about Facebook, other than finding all your old school mates, saying hello and then deleting them when you realise you have nothing to say to them and you didn’t actually like them all that much in the first place.
I am hooked. And it’s only been a week. Twitter is awesome. Perhaps it’s because I have some deep seated need to procrastinate when I’m meant to be working on my Animation Mentor stuff but there’s just something about it that is incredibly appealing. I can’t really explain it. Obviously it helps to have a selection of interesting people to follow.
Oh and I’ve added the widget to my sidebar, so the most recent ‘tweets’ (ok, that is one annoying thing about Twitter) show up there. Man, I really need to get a move on with making this place look nicer!
If you would like to follow me on Twitter, you can do so here!*
I cannot guarantee that anything I say will be of any interest to anyone, but perhaps you will enjoy it.
I am also pleased that apparently ‘gumpf’ is an accepted word in Firefox’s spell check dictionary!
Hello! Finally caught up with all my updates so everything is now as it should be. I’m going to be making a concerted effort to keep it that way from now on! So, here is my near-complete assignment for this week. It’s meant to be my re-block from last week, but I’ve added so much flippin’ information (we’re talking mostly 2s here) that it’s almost linear anyway! ;)
So there you go! Hope you like it. I’m going to take a quick run at splining it before the hand-in tomorrow evening – what I’m hoping is that it isn’t going to be too tough because I’ve added all that detail! I’ll update you all tomorrow once I’ve done it and handed it in!
So I bet you’re interested to know how my blocking went, aren’t you? Well I did take some days off last week, just to make sure I managed to get through the huge bulk of poses needed to make this thing work. Turns out those days off were very helpful:
Shaun was really happy with my blocking (“probably the best blocking I’ve seen you do”, no less!) and didn’t have any major pose or time changes to suggest. The main thing was to really push the ups and downs of the hips to accentuate the moves, particularly things like the slide and the kick and try to extend some of the slower sections by a few frames/as much as possible.
The key pointers he had moving into the refinement stage next week were:
These are all things I’ll be looking at when reblocking next week. I’ll just take my block and add loads of additional inbetweens/breakdowns and really concentrate on nailing down the timing and feeling of the feet. Stay tuned!