class II, week 12

The end of the Body Mechanics! Class III starts at the beginning of January so I have two-week break :D

My progress reel:

Animation Mentor Progress Reel class II from Weronika Roksz on Vimeo.

Now I can see I made a HUGE progress during these three months. Thank you, AM! :) 

Class II, weeks 08-11

We had a couple of weeks for making our last animation in class II. It was very challenging but I had so much fun! :D Here is the final (but it's possible that I will improve it a bit in the future):


And here you can see stages of my shot: reference, blocking, splining and polishing-final:



As you can see I changed quite a lot, mostly because of feedback from my mentor (on every single stage). The biggest change is the exaggeration of the balancing pose :) 

Class II, week 07

This week we started something completely different - our task is not walk cycle anymore! We had to choose from the pick list what we'd like to animate. There were a lot of options so I didn't know what to do. I recorded a few references of various movements and then finally I could choose the one  :)
It's a combination of lifting and carrying a heavy object (and a bit of locomotion as well).

My reference:


To be honest, this scene was much longer and funnier but our limit is 250 frames (I didn't want to change the timing too much). It's about 10 seconds. Maybe after this term I will animate the full version of my idea :)

My planning:

I guess I drew too many brakdowns (?) but anyway I'm pretty satisfied with that.

Aaaaand this is my final of quad walk cycle!


I had a lot of fun with Sloan :) I'll get back to this rig some day, though it has unusually long neck what is a bit frustrating at some moments (in my animation you can't see it because I shortened it a bit). 

Class II, week 06

This week task: splining (dog walk)




Sketches and poses:

I have so much fun with all that doggie stuff! :D

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)