Friday, October 31, 2008
Devastation pose
The model has such a massive head, that I had to rotate the camera around to this angle, because his outstretched arm was not being seen.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Sketches for a devastated pose
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Two balls of different weight
The assignment for this week was to animate two balls with different weights.
Communicating weight is sometimes about how fast the ball is falling (even though this doesn't really hold true in real world physics). But it's also about the number of bounces and the height of the bounces when it impacts.
One thing I'm definitely learning is that you can't just plug in the physics equations and expect it to look good. You have to "sell" the effect by slightly exaggerating the actions.
It's taken me a while to realise that animation is not the recreation of life - any more than painting is just duplicating a scene. It's about conveying information that is larger than life - but that still makes people go "oh yeah - I've seen that before".
Tricky stuff.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Bouncing Ball Revision
I'm trying to not post every single bouncing ball exercise I do, but here is one after the critique from fellow students and my mentor.
The big thing he picked up was the rotations and the weight of the ball towards the end - which hopefully I've fixed.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
AM103 - Excitement Pose
Saturday, October 18, 2008
AM103 Sketches
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Improvements to AM102 assignment
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
AM Class102 - Stu Pose
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
AM Class102 - sketching in real life
Otherwise this week's assignment of sketching people live (not from television or magazines) would have been a true nightmare.
As it is - it still takes a lot of courage to overcome the fear of being observed drawing in public.
My tip #1 - do it while drinking coffee and reading a newspaper. That way if people come sniffing and snooping around - you can cover up!