Class II, week 05

Dog walk!
It wasn't easy. But I remember my first animation of  the walking dog (:D) - it was horrible (before AM). Now it's much better :)

This week only blocking:



And some sketches and poses:

Class II, week 04

Wow, one month has passed since the beggining of this class! Finally it's time for dog topics. I'm very excited because I love dogs :) This week we had to record reference of walking dog, make sketches, poses and planning for the next assignment.

My sketches:

Poses:

 Video reference (with my dog Yuki) :D


And planning:

Class II week 03

Continuation of vanilla walk - splining:

At the end of this term I want to come back to this animation and improve it a bit (there is some knee popping etc).

Sketches and poses:

Class II, week 02

Vanilla walk again! But this time we won't animate only a ball with legs :) Full "human" body - it's not easy.  A lot of subtle rotations and translations. This week we had to record our own reference, make planning and blocking.

My planning and notes:

Reference:



And my blocking:

Class II, week 01

After a six-month break I finally got back to my favorite school :) Now I will learn body mechanics - sounds great! This time my mentor is Paul Allen (e.g. he worked on The Book of Life what is super cool). 

Week 1 - only sketches of movement and poses in Maya (with new rig - Stella)