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Class 2 Week 7

Daniel Lim — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:40:32 +0000

A very tough week this one! Not only was there polishing up to do on the Parkour wallflip, but also planning out a new animation for the final task of the class! Argh!

Right, so here is my final wallflip animation:

It was well received by Shaun, the main thing to sort out being the slightly too extreme spacing on the body just before Stewie lands. Hopefully I’ll get time to fix that before I have to put my progress reel together at the end of the term.

So, new task!

Being an idiot, I thought I’d go “all out” for the final task of the term. I picked something quite challenging:

Yes, I know. I. am. an. idiot. Well, I’m guessing it will be fun and painful in equal measures! Like I said, I wanted to finish the term with a bang, so what better way to do that than by near killing myself with a near impossible animation!

Here’s the Flipbook planning – there are a ton of poses!

The blocking stage next week is going to take me a very long time!

Class 2 Week 6

Daniel Lim — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:18:08 +0000

Right, so I really pushed the poses from last week. Being an idiot, I didn’t spot how incredibly even and horrible the spacing was. Which is pretty much the first and only thing Shaun mentioned in my critique. It really is awful as you will see:

So, last week was pushing the poses, which I did. Now I have to go through and really push the spacing to make it feel weighty, explosive and much, much more appealling!

Class 2 Week 5

Daniel Lim — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:14:46 +0000

Right, blocking pass for the Parkour backflip assignment:

I was fairly happy with it as a starting point, but it was a little bit boring. Shaun (and pretty much everyone else that gave me feedback) suggested that I really need to move away from my reference and push the poses as much as possible. Hopefully you’ll see evidence of that next week ;)

Class 2 Week 4

Daniel Lim — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:50:59 +0000

OK, I’ve been a bit slack with updates, so apologies for the rather terse nature of the next few posts! Let’s start off with the final polished version of my jumping turn animation. This is the revision based on my critique. Fortunately Shaun was pretty happy with it, so there was only one tweak that I really had to do. Here’s the finished animation:

I’m really happy with how it turned out, so I thought I’d pick something fairly challenging for the next assignment: Parkour! And we go to move onto using Stewie (with no arms), so there’s also the spine to contend with now. Here’s the video reference – I bet you can’t spot the seams ;)

The overlays were done in Kinovea, which I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned before, so I’ll link it again. It’s very useful! Using the overlays I put together my Flipbook planning. Annoyingly, I didn’t get time to do all the drawings properly, but hopefully it will give you an idea of what I was after.

And I think that’s about it for this week! Onto Week 5!