Archive for June, 2009

Just had my last Q&A with Shaun…

Friday, June 19th, 2009

*sob* That’s it, after 2 terms and 6 months with the legend that is Mr. Shaun Freeman as my mentor, the magic simply could not last forever!  He’s not teaching Class 3, therefore he’s not teaching me any more. It’s been emotional Shaun!

In all seriousness, I’ve learnt an absolute (metric) tonne of stuff over the past 6 months and a large part of that can be placed at Shaun’s feet and the great critiques and fun Q&A sessions he’s conducted during my first two classes at Animation Mentor. From the cries of “GO TEAM!”, to the overuse of his new favourite phrase (“pants”) and even upto this evening’s jovial exploits, it’s been a great journey (or at least a very big part of one) and a great pleasure to have Shaun impart his top quality knowledge to us newbies!

SO THANK YOU SHAUN!

And with that, I bid you all a goodnight!

ps. If you pop back tomorrow, I should have my Class 2 Progress Reel posted for your enjoyment (or otherwise)!

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Class 2 Week 11

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Well, yet another week of crapping my pants trying to get my work finished. Next term I am absolutely not going to pick anything as complex as this again. If I try, please come over and beat me up. If I were not doing a full time job at the same time it’d be absolutely fine, but there really simply no time to properly polish and refine such a complex animation and be able to sleep now and again :)

So in theory, this is finished. I was genuinely concerned about the state it was in when I uploaded it to the website. It turns out that it was actually OK! I had a great critique from Shaun; he was generally very happy with it but since I had asked for some really specific pointers about how to make it better, he went through and gave me a few key frame numbers to go through and polish some more. So that’s what I’ll be doing with the remainder of this week – only have ’til Friday to get my revision in though!

I guess it really is difficult to step back from your work and look at it objectively. Something to bear in mind next time, anyway!

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Class 2 Week 10

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

This is the first polish stage for the tap dance assignment. I thought it was going OK, but I got the impression from my critique that the animation hadn’t really moved forward that much from last week’s work. And perhaps that’s true. Unfortunately I didn’t have a lot of time for my assignment this week.

I started with the feet, then the body and finally the arms. Haven’t looked at the head, hands or knees (or eyes) yet (and I also haven’t been able to accentuate the ending yet either). This is the penultimate week – need to make some proper time to polish it up nicely!

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Look what I got in the post today!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Well taking the day off to do work does have it’s advantages! Look what was waiting for me when I came downstairs for breakfast:

Anyone else get their LBP tshirt in the post today? It's awes... on Twitpic

For the record it was the LBP tshirt, not the handsome chap contained within! That would be weird. I got it as a result of this. It’s actually a very good quality tshirt from Fruits of the Loom and the print is pretty good as well. Rasta’s not normally my style, but I can make an exception here I think! Thanks Media Molecule!

Now… I wonder if there were other designs and if so – what were they? I’m intrigued!

EDIT: Stupid Twitpic, only letting me link the thumbnail version. As long as I’m linking it back to their site, why do they care if it’s the big version or not?

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