Archive for July 2nd, 2009

Class 3 – Advanced Body Mechanics

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

As I mentioned in my previous post, I worked ridiculously hard last term and whilst it produced results, I felt it had a fairly detrimental effect on other aspects of my life (“Weekends/sleep/free time? What are they again?”). In order to strike a decent balance between AM/work/not work I think I’m going to have to take it a little easier this term. That’s easier, not worse. No more EPIC dance routines, for example. I’m going to try and keep it simple, short and spend time polishing. Looking forward to it!

I’ve also got my first Q&A session with new mentor Bryan Engram at 2.30am tomorrow. It’s a pretty brutal time slot but I think I can manage! Trying to talk to me on a Friday might be a bit of a write-off for the next 3 months, who knows! It should be good regardless as Bryan is Animation Director at Reel FX Entertainment in Dallas. He is also responsible for this.

I think there is a lot I can learn this term! :D

Class 2 Progress Reel

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

As Class 3 looms ever closer (OK, so it has actually started already :P), I thought I should probably get round to showing a collated version of all the work I’ve done thus far. So allow me to present, my Progress Reel for Class 2 – Psychology of Body Mechanics:

My final assignment, the tap dance, is not as polished as it should be but I think I just need to leave it for a while.  I won’t be picking anything quite as needlessly challenging in the future; it’s simply too difficult to achieve a good result in the time allowed when you’re also trying to hold down a full-time job. I worked out that at the height of my AM activity so far, I was doing around 30 hours of work a week on AM and combined with a full-time 40-ish hour week at work, it was all getting a bit much!