AM Class 3- Week 6 & 7 Assignment

It's week 6 and time for blocking. We get two weeks of blocking and it really helped me to "plus" my third shot. I orginally had him just run from the rock. Now I have him stumble over one of the rocks while he's trying to get to the coconut.  I was lucky enough to get a funny scene. The collaboration class is really fun and I've gotten to know my classmates way more then I did the other classes.

The whole sequence for my class.

AM Class 3- Week 5 Assignment

So our mentor did a great job of cobining all of our ideas into one story.  Stewie is stuck on the dessert island and trys to get a coconut out of a tree. He try's all sorts of ways to get it. Mine is hitting the palm tree with a stick. Then he ties the tree down to try and get the coconut. I've posted my reference, sketches and previs.

AM Class 3- Week 4 Assignment

Since I'm part of the pilot program for the new class 3 collabrative, I had to "pitch" a sequence where Stewie shows off his body mechanic skills. I came up with Stewie being stranded on a island and gets taken by head hunters. He escapes and makes his way to a pirate ship. He trys to escape from the pirates and is saved by a plane flying by.

AM Class 3- Week 3 Assignment

Week 3 and it's time to turn in our shot in final form. Wish I had some more time to work on this. We get a week less to work on this shot. Hopefully I have a good live critique with my mentor and I  can do the revisions on my own time.

AM Class 3- Week 2 Assignment

We are speeding right along and this week we had to block out our shot. I lost somework so I didn't have that many poses. This helped out because I had to redo alot of it.

AM Class 3- Week 1 Assignment

I've started Class 3 with my mentor Drew Adams. He is awesome!! Very detailed and he gives 110 percent. I'm trying out the new Advanced Body Mechanics collabrative class. This week we had to pick an action from a list (I picked jogging then stopping). Here are my sketches and reference.

AM Class 2- Week 11 & 12 Assignment

For week 11 I submitted my final Dancing Stewie. I really needed to fix the timing on the arm swings and alot of the action. I think I bit off more then I could chew. My mentor was impressed that I challenged myself with this shot. I learned a lot and it was fun.  Here is my final reel for class 2.

AM Class 2- Week 10 Assignment

Ah now into Spline. Such a painful part of the process. Everthing is looking good and then you put it in spline and you have to redo a lot of parts. I ran into a ton of gimbal lock and I'm going to be more careful next time so I don't run into that.

AM Class 2- Week 9 Assignment

This week I put my animation on 2's just to lock down the movements.  My mentor sugguested to put it to the music to make sure it follows it.

AM Class 2- Week 8 Assignment

I have been sick as can be. I had the same mouth virus that my daughter had and put me in bed for four days and I've lost about fifteen pounds! So I'm playing catch up with posting my assignments. This week we put our shot into blocking. My mentor suggested putting it on 4's because of the complicated movements.

AM Class 2- Week 7 Assignment

Just submitted my final on my Stewie being scared.  Looking forward to what my mentor has to say so I can "plus" my shot.  I picked my new shot for the next four weeks. It's Dancing Stewie doing an old 40's dance.

AM Class 2- Week 6 Assignment

Week 6 is all about Blocking Plus. We put our shot into spline mode and get it as far along as we can.

AM Class 2- Week 5 Assignment

My concept is Stewie (No arms) is walking happily by a home haunters yard haunt.  He is suddenly scared by a grave popping skeleton. This is my re-block of my orginal blocking. I had some notes from my Mentor that I addressed.

AM Class 2- Week 4 Assignment

Finally to the point of final polish. I spent a long time on my shot and I think it paid off. Minor notes from my mentor, I'm a very happy man this week. We also had to choose our shot for the next month. We work with Stewie (He has no arms so we can focus on the shoulders and head). My idea is that he is walking along happily by a home haunters graveyard then a grave popper pops up and scares Stewie. He jumps back and falls down.

AM Class 2- Week 3 Assignment

Week three we are moving into blocking plus. Class 2 is a big step up from Class 1. I'm learning a lot and my mentor is really prepared and knows his stuff.

AM Class 2- Week 2 Assignment

This week we blocked out our shot. Just the key poses and breakdowns.

AM Class 2- Week 1 Assignment

Class 2 has began!  My new mentor Martin Hopkins works at Dreamworks Animation.  He has been a mentor at AnimationMentor for six years.  The class is intro to Psychology of Body Mechanics.  My first week we had to shoot video reference for the shot we picked. I decided to have Ballie walking up a ton of stairs.  He walks up three stairs stumbles, leans against the wall and slides down.  

AM Class 1- Week 12 Assignment

We are now entering the last week of Class 1 and it's been a great ride.  This week we had to put together all our work and post it on our public review. Here's mine....enjoy!!

Class 1 Week 11 Assignment

I choose to re-create the silly walk from Monty Python for my "personality walk". Our assignment is to pose Stu with weight on one leg showing balance.

AM Class 1- Week 10 Assignment

Did my revisions to my vanilla walk (looks a lot better). We started blocking our personality walk this week.  I chose my walk from Monty Python's sketch "Ministry of Silly Walks". This weeks pose was exhausted.