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Class 2 Week 4

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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!

Class 2 Week 3

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Here we go boys and girls! We’ve taken our blocking pass out of blocking and into a slightly more refined state: splined curves, more attention to overlapping and arcs and the like. I still need to track the knees and fix some of the stiffness in the first step along with whatever Shaun thinks I need to change (I’m awaiting my critique at the moment).

Week 4, along with polishing this animation based on our crit  will involve planning our next 4-week assignment. I’ll be back a bit later with some video reference and thoughts on what exactly it is I’m going to do.

Class 2 Week 2

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Right, I’m back up to schedule and it’s been a good week this week. Definitely feels less intensive than Class 1 so far – although I did have a very late night on Thursday. Not for any good reason, I just did :)

Anyway, I had loads off great feedback this week – after what I would consider to be a rather slow first week, people seem to be warming up to their new classes a little more and are getting into some in-depth critiquing. Which is really great! I had the art of critiquing drummed into me whilst I was at the NCCA so I know how important it is to leave constructive feedback.  Enough with the jibba-jabba. Here’s my blocking:

One of my main criticisms from Shaun this week was that there was a bit too much detail for a blocking phase. This is quite a hard thing to judge, but I guess I will pick it up eventually. There were also a few poses that didn’t read as well as they could have and I have to look at taking some of the floatier movement out. The acceleration up and down needs accentuating whilst slightly extending the hang time of the main jump. I also need to add some body overlap to the small settle bounces at the end (how the hell did I miss that? The body rotation is completely flat!).

So, not a bad week but it would seem that I did miss the point a little. OH well, I will have a revised block up soon and then I’ll have to take it to ‘blocking plus’, which is perhaps even more vague! Somewhere between leaving stepped mode and doing final polish! Argh! I imagine there will be plenty of questions queued up at the Q&A tomorrow! :D