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Class 3 Week 7

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Polish pass for my latest shot. Still a few things that could be better – the swinging at the end was incredibly difficult to achieve good results because I didn’t do an IK switch on the spine and an FK switch on the legs.

Now it’s time to do the final shot for the term! Luckily I managed to find some footage of a strange man caught hanging around a children’s playground!

Here are the planning sketches for the next assignment. Stewie attempts to correct his bad jump by making sure he doesn’t fall to his death!

c3w7 - Sketchbook Planning 1

c3w7 - Sketchbook Planning 2

Really pleased with how these turned out actually. For the record, they’re done with REAL pencils on REAL paper! Amazing!

Class 3 Week 4

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The polish pass on my previous shot:

Video reference compiled from various sources to describe the next sequence I’m working on:

The main actions from my new shot: the vault over some piping/AC unit and the leap across to an adjacent building:

c3w4 - Sketchbook Planning 1

The jump section of the animation broken down into key poses:

c3w4 - Sketchbook Planning 2

The last few key poses from the sequence:

c3w4 - Sketchbook Planning 3

Class 2 Week 11

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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!