This is going to be a ongoing Project. I am aiming to do a Project of each class that I am attempting with my new qualification that I am aiming to complete with Animation Mentor. You can also see my Blog entries on my website.
My mentor during Class 01 is Sean McComber
All rigs used are property of Animation Mentor.
All posing, animation and rendering were done by me.
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Week 02
For this week we had to create a character pose using the Stu character rig which was given to us from Animation Mentor. This was challenging due to it having one FK arm and the other set to IK. We have to use Stu so that we can get use to working in either a FK or IK setup.
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Week 03
This week was pretty fun. We had to do another pose, this time we had to focus on creating a pose that shows excitement.
On top of creating the pose we had to also create our first ball bounce. We had to recreate a basketball bounce, which is a lot harder that it sounds but still fun.
This is the pose of Stu that I submitted.
This pose I did extra for fun.
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Week 04
This week started off with a new lecture and a new assignment. This time around we had to create a bouncing animation showing a light and heavy ball bouncing. The environment I created was something extra. I know it is not a lot but we had to focus on the bouncing balls.
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Week 05
Well this week is jam packed with things to do! We had a new pose assignment which is always a weirdly fun thing to do. We also had to do some revisions on our bouncing ball animation from last week, which gave me some grey hairs.
We were also given a new animation assignment which we have to demonstrate our understanding of overlapping and drag by animating a pendulum rig which was given to us.
This is the pose that I submitted for Week 5.
This pose I did extra for fun.
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Week 06
This was a new and exciting week. We had to do revisions on our pendulum animation from the week before as well as a new animation exploring the principles of squash and stretch as well as overlapping action.
We had the choice of three character rigs this week to demonstrate our understanding of the "new" principles that were introduced to us, I decided to go with the character by the name of Tailor.
He is a simple little rig that is basically just a ball with a tail.
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Week 07
This was a "simple" week during this first module. All we had to do is make corrections to our Tailor animation of last week based on our critique from our mentor.
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Week 08
This week had had a new pose that we had to do as well as a new animation. We have to create a vanilla walk cycle.
This is the pose that I submitted.
This was just a pose I did extra becasue I have just having fun with this.
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Week 09
This week was a little easier. We had yet another pose that we had to complete. The theme this week was concern. We also had to take our blocked out walk from last week and we had to spline it.
This is the pose I submitted this week.
This is a pose I did for fun.
Just something exta I did.
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Week 10
Oks we are almost done with the first class. This week we were required to refine our animation of the week before as well as create our very own walk cycle with its own personality, along with our pose for the week.
The pose for this week has to show exhaustion
This is the pose that I submiited for this week.
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Week 11
Well this is basically our final week. We had to do a final pose with the theme of "balance". We also had to take our personality walk into the final spline phase and finish it off.
This is a extra pose I completed.
This is the pose that I submitted this week.
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Week 12
This is our last week in Class 01 - Animation Basics. We had to create a mini show reel or what they call a Progress Reel of the work we have completed during this class.
