The first week of the new Quarter...

Here I am, at it again. This Spring Quarter goes as follows:

Monday/Wednesdays
8am - 10:30am, 3D Character Rigging and Animation
5pm - 7:30pm, Animation II

Tuesdays/Thursdays
11am - 1:30pm, Conceptual Maquette Class

I survived my first week of classes so far. In 3D character I'm working towards building a fully rigged model of a character I've created. I'm using Anzu yet again for this project although this will be interesting since I'm still relatively new to modeling and animating in Maya. My Animation II class has just begun animating bouncing balls and working towards an Emotional Ball. I was supposed to take Animation II before 3D character...but my double major causes me to overlap classes unfortunately. Finally my Conceptual Maquette class is starting our Celebrity Maquettes. We have to find reference photos of an actor and sculpt a maquette from those references.

Today, I managed to work on a lot of stuff. I got my "stalker" board completed yesterday, its a big foam core board with all of my reference photos on it. After class, I worked on my character turnarounds that are due for 3D character on Monday. I also worked on my armature when I got home later on in the night. Here's some pics of my progress.



Armature in progress, "Stalker" Board as my professor likes to put it.



Looks nothing like him....yet.



My supplies for Maquette Building.



The finished Armature setup. Yeah arms and legs aren't proportional, but that's so I don't end up with short line while constructing and I can always snip off the metal if it was too long.

But yeah...that's my week.

Class 20: Last Day

So I managed to finish the project, woo! I'm pretty satisfied with the final outcome, although I would have liked to have everything smoother and more animated if I had knew what I really wanted to do before the quarter started and worked all quarter long. I'd like to continue working on this later to really get it completed.

Anywho, here's the piece!



hmm seems like the video is a bit slow...looks better on the real file and the swf.

Progresso Reporto V

In class, I worked on the scenes with Anzu and Jurou and managed to complete most of it. The only things I need to do left are the close up reaction shots of both of them, draw the smoke effect and food and animate it. After that, I'm going to try and add sounds to the animation.

Looks like a lot, but actually I'm quite pleased at where I'm at. You'll see a finished piece by Class 20.

Class 19: Oh crud...

Unlike most, I'm not finished. Still got work to do, as you can see by my previous posts. Not much else to say, because I need to get back to work.

Progress Report IV

I just finished the first scene of Anzu on the roof, animated. If you follow with the storyboards, I finished up to board 19 and I need to finish the rest. Work work work.

Progress Report III

Woo, so now I'm finished with the interior scenes of the restaurant. Everything is animated up to storyboard 14 if you wanna know where I'm at. Now I need to do the rooftop sequence with Anzu and Jurou...yay the fun part.

Ahh nooo come back to me my lost hour!!

Daylight Savings sucks ;-;

After waking up and looking at it, I'm also going to go back to the shot of me and my friends and change my hair darker, like my friend to the left. Also going to redo the weird darker brown squiggles behind us. Supposed to be shadows of customers, but I'll fix that real quick.