Bouncing Ball Final

My first animation for AM is none and in the books!




-Nick

Excitement Pose Update

Excitement Stu Poses

These are the two versions of Excitement that I'm playing with. I like the second one better, but I dunno?






- Nick

Week 3 Excitement! and The Bouncing Ball

This week we are to bust out the old sketch book and draw poses that convey Excitement! Most of the poses I did were sports related celebratory type poses. The first image is a compilation of the all the sketchbook pages.




For the next part of the assignment we are to plan our bouncing ball animation out. And these are the sketches I have for that. I would like to push it and give the animation a little twist/ extra goodness but at the same time I don't want to lose sight of the goal here.



- Nick

Week 2 Assignment 1 and Re Visions

So today I got my first ECritique, and man what a difference the feedback makes. I dunno if it looks any better but I sure like it a lot more.

This is what I turned in for the first assignment. We were to go out and sketch people, it could be any where, I went to Starbucks. A lot of the poses were the same, but I liked this one of a woman pointing at the menu board.




This is the Re Vision, I like it much better!




-Nick

Week One Q & A

Yesterday we had our first Question and Answer for Class One: Basic Foundations. At AM the the Q & A rooms open and hr in advance, as each of my classmates trickled in you could feel the energy. I know that is hard to understand sense its an online school and until your there you won't really know what its like. We were asking each other questions and getting to know one another then the time finally came. I felt like I was waiting for the headliner of a major concert to take stage. It sounds crazy but when your mentor is someone that has hand in producing some of greatest animated features you've seen, it really is on that level, maybe even bigger.

Anthony introduced himself and gave a brief rundown of his professional history. Went over how the class will be structured, what he will do on his part and what he expects from us. He then took some questions and showed us some examples of more complex things that are strongly rooted in the basics. I'm quickly learning that this class will set the pace for the next five classes. If we get the basics down everything else will come natural.

Needless to say, I feel like I'm in great hands!


- Nick