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