WOW!!!

Good grief. Its been awhile...a long while. So unfortunately I had to discontinue going to AM because I was dealing with a lot at the time. The plan was to wait until Decemnber when I finished and then start job hunting... BUT!!! Didnt work out that way for muah. I had to get on it and start looking now. And after over 40 reels sent out (which is actually a small amount) nothing. I did land this internship a few weeks ago. Its 2d mostly though but it does give me an opportunity to learn after effects and meet some really cool people. Everyone there is great. Ill just keep learning and hope to land that dream job soon. I do miss AM though maybe later I can go back and touch up.

AAAAAGh!!! I wanted to post my last weeks of work at AM but I got a virus on my PC. I had been telling myself to back it up...hehe "back it up" Anywho, thats what laziness does to you. Ill get it fixed when I have some more cash. Well, gotta go hope to put up some more posts.

Term 3 - Week 12 Progress Reel!!!

So here it is my new progress reel!!! I might put a newer one later with a rendered version of my lipsync but I might just render it in a few weeks because next week I finally get facial controls. So Ill be working on that for the next few weeks. This again has been a great term. Thank you Dana for your critiques and extra time in the QnA's. Ill check everyone out next term.
Peace

Term 3 - Week 11

So here we are all done. I havent got my last critque on it yet but I did adjust the last things my mentor felt need a little tweaking. Hopefully, that should be it unless she finds something this last time around. So I didnt have much to do this week. It gave me a chance to play with the rendering. Im not sure if Im happy with what I came up with. If Im happy with it, Ill put it in my progress reel.

Term 3 - Week 10

Ok so Im pretty much done by this point. Just have to correct some minor things.

Term 3 - Week 9

Yikes!!! This was a super tiring week for me I was so shot full of energy drinks that I was running circles around my hyper son. Lol thats kind of a ironic statement. Anyways, this week I put in a lot of time so that I could make up for lost time during the previous week. I was able to get a lot done but still had some things that I wish I of could worked on some more.

The hand pose for this week is relaxed.

Term 3 - Week 8

UUUUUUgh!!! This week sucked mostly because my little guy was sick. I hate it so much when he gets sick. He's still a baby, well to me at least (2 yrs old), and when ever he gets sick I feel terrible because I can tell he suffers through it. Fortunately, during the day he was playing around and having fun but at night my poor little guy couldnt sleep because his stuffed up little nose kept him up. One night he even got a fever and I had to take him to the ER. Fortunately again, it went down when we got there and he was smiling on the way home. If you ever see this I love you fatboy!!! Well, since I only really have a chance to work on my animation in the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping my son being sicking this week was my main concern and I barely got anythinng else done. I was hoping to go into spline but instead stayed in blocking and just worked out some things that needed tweaking. I was lucky my mentor only had 2 minor things that she felt needed tweaking. Some more up and in the hips when he shifts his weight and she wanted me to give it a different ending. At the end of the clip it says "then her sister walks in" and Dana (mentor) wanted me to give some sort of reaction to it. I didnt get to that this week though. Well, here it is.


Oops I almost for got we also had an assignment where we are suppose to show anger through a hand pose. this is what I came up with

Term 3 - Week 7

Here is what Ive been waiting to do all this time. SOME LIPSYNC BABY!!! lol I was so excited to finally get the bishop character and wanted to have fun with this...The only thing that took me by surprise for the first few seconds when I was checking out the Bishop rig was that HE HAS NO FACIAL EXPRESSION CONTROLS, then I realized wait a minute this is a good thing. This way we only concentrate on the body. GREAT JOB AM!!! I later found out that the first three week of term 4 is where we go in start putting in his facial expressions. Im really excited about that. That should be hella fun!!! Well, here goes my first pass at blocking.

Term 3 - Week 6

So for this week we finally are going to get a chance to deep in some lipsync. Our assignment was to choose three different dialogues and act to it so we could have reference to work from when we get into the computer. This is the clip I ended up with

Term 3 - Week 5

So this is what I ended up with. Im going to work on some minor things that I feel still need a bit of love and maybe add an an environment. So that itll be ready for my reel.

Term 3 - Week 4

So an the last assignment everything still seemed to pose to pose. I still needed some overlapping actions along with some things I had to correct.

Term 3 - Week 3

So this how it looked after my first pass at spline I was kind of dissappointed because I didnt get to spend as much time as I would of like to.

Term 3 - Week 2

WOOOW so Im falling being here. Sorry Im always real busy. Anywho this is the first blocking stage of the assignment for the Intro to Acting class. Its a pantomime assignment.

Term 3 - Week 1

So Im finally in my first acting class at AM. Its going to be lots of fun. I have to say fo my other classes I kind of already went into each class with some ideas to work witj but in the new new class Im completely clueless on what animations to come up with. Regardless, Im glad to be back after my break. Which really wasnt a break because I was working on things that needed tweaking. Anywhooo. My mentor for this class is Dana Boadway. Im excited to be in her class my last mentor Dimos said shes a good mentor, not that any of the mentors are bad, but I think he personally knows her and knows how she teaches. Unfortunately, she doesnt have a website so I cant put a link up to see her work but shes done work on Halo 3, The Wild, and The Backyardigans to name a few. This term is going to really be rough on me because my class starts at 11am which is not the most convenient time for me because at that time my 2 year old son is wide awake and with him running around and wanting attention its hard for me to really interact with the rest of the class. Well, hope I do good in this class I ended last term with some really kind and motivating words from my last mentor that really gave me some hope that one day Ill become an animator and I really appreciate that Dimos. THANKS!!!. I hope I can keep the momentum going as my journey continues...

Term 2 - Week 12

So here I am again its been a few weeks since the last post and I actually aleardy started on on my third term, but this my new progress reel from AM.