Week II Completed

I just submitted my “first actual assignment” for Animation Mentor and I feel ok about it.

I briefly explained the assignment in the post prior to this one, but we were given instructions to go to a public place to observe & sketch human actions, then to re-create our favorite pose with STU, in Maya. 

 The posing assignments are meant to teach us how to effectively bring life to a motionless T-posed character, with an emphasis on pushing the line of action and making sure the character is balanced.

We will have to do this several times during the quarter to strengthen our observation and posing skills, which will help us immensely later down the road.

My Thursday Q&A with my mentor, Bryan Engram, and classmates was very insightful and I felt like a sponge soaking up all the knowledge being fed to me.  We talked a lot about what makes and breaks a particular pose, and Bryan used several examples from various films, such as Cats Don’t Dance, Ice Age, and Tarzan. I learned a lot just in those 2 hours about posing. I never really got an in depth breakdown on posing until this week, which says a lot, since I’ve been at another university studying the same material for 3 years.

 I will probably start the next assignment later today and post updates Tuesday! 

But until then, Happy Easter

-TJ

AM Weeks 1&2

Soooooooo, it’s been a while since I updated this blog! 

First things first! 

Classes have officially started and I love it already.

The first week was mainly introducing ourselves to each other and meeting our professor. We also had to watch an introduction video that was really inspiring and had me wanting to animate the night away. The video featured animators in the industry sharing why they got into animation and how they got to where they are now. It hit me that these people were struggling students just as I am now, but they persevered through all of it and followed their dreams.

Right now, I’m doing everything possible to make my dreams come true and can’t wait to look back and share my story! But that is why I have this blog.

It’s Week 2 of Classes and I’ve already started on my homework, like a good boy haha. For homework, we have to go out in a public place and do some sketches of human actions and then re-create the best-drawn pose in Maya, with one of AM’s rigs, STU.

So far, I have around three pages of poses I drew today in Midtown Atlanta. 

I will eventually post them tomorrow or sometime this week, along with the completed pose in Maya!

But for now, goodnight, and may the odds be ever in your favor. (I said all of this in a British accent.)