Posts Tagged ‘tap dance’

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!

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!

Class 2 Week 9 – Assignment

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

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!

Class 2 Week 9 – Reblock

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

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!