Current WIP

Class 2, Weeks 2-4: Walkthrough - Blocking to Final

Class 2, Week 1: Clarity in Blocking

Tadaaaa, my final class one reel:

Ballie roundhouse kick planning: 

Week 12: Walks with different weights and review

first rough pass of my class 1 reel:

Week 11 (Exxageration and weight)

character walk:

balance pose:

revision:

Week 10 (Introduction to walks with charakter)

Sexy walk planning and blocking:

exhaustion pose, this is what you feel like after 10 weeks of AM:

Vanilla walk revision, with lots of knee-popping I couln´t get rid off

Week 9 (Human anatomy for animators)

splined vanilla walk:

concern pose:

Week 8 (Introduction to walks)

vanilla walk planning + blocking:

physical strength pose:

Tailor revision:

My mentor asked me to do a comletely new and more simple shot and really focus on the tail:

Week 7 (Spline editing)

Final tailor shot:

Pendolum revision:

Week 6 (Overlapping action)

Final pendolum shot:

Revision:
-devastation pose

-obstacle course

Since the first version of the obstacle course assignment was way too cartoony for my mentor, I had to change nearly everything:

Week 5 (Anticipation and squash´n stretch)

some first devastation sketches:

Stu pose:

planning for obstacle course:

first pass on obstacle course:

final version:

Week 4 (Introduction to timing and spacing)

Heavy vs light ball assignment:

Week 3 (Planning and blocking methods)

planning for my first simple bouncing ball assignment:

Excitement poses:

And finally my bouncing ball assignment and the revision of last week´s pose:

-bouncing ball

-pose revision

- and another pose, my mentor wanted to see

Week 2 (The principles of animation)

For our first assignment, we had to do some pose sketches in 

public places...

...to pick one and recreate it with Stu

first version:

final:

OneLeg halfpipe blocking

second pass:

third pass:

Boing, boing, boing

Trying to get used to a little squash ´n stretch!

Blow the horns for my first progress reel!

Boing, boing

More Springboard stuff

Week 3 was all about shading and rendering our scene. I didn´t like my old one anymore, so I decided to go for something new - something more simple - 

something I can finally start animating with! 

Well, my new characters would be one red ball with a cute green stripe, two black pipes, and something like a nail. The scene consists of the orange ground, the blue background and a very basic 3-point lighting system.

On week 4 we started to get down to the basics of animation, so I just continued my shot to come to this, eeeerrrm... final version, or my very first animation assignment!   

Week 5:

This is what I´ve been fighting last week. They gave us a forward-kinematic crane rig and I started my shot with this...

...added that...

...and died when one of my caring classmates reminded me, that there was a syllabus which advises us to not exceed 100 frames. From now on I´ll keep an eye on that thing!

This is the squashed version:

Springboard week 2 Assignment

Our first job for week 2 was to create a character from polygon primitives and  creating a basic hirachy for those objects.
So, please allow me to introduce B-Boy (v1beta), my first character created in Maya:

The second assignment was about creating a set for our character. 

Today I was eating like a sumo, what inspired me go for a dohyó. Maybe I will be trying something else, but I won´t hold back my first attempt:

And here we go!

My first springboard class assignment:

 the shelf was given

This is what I came up with so far. The perspective isn´t correct because I seem to have used the wrong camera settings, but that should be fixed quite easily. 

Second version without that wide-angle look and some minor changes

Maya Springboard

Yesterday, I finally recieved an email including the Springboard Class QnA times and my first mentor. His name is Dan Lauer and he is an AM-allumni, currently working on several animation projects and as a Maya trainer for our school. On top of that, he´s a 3d allrounder with a background in coding, so I´m sure we´ll be learning some crazy Maya stuff by a very competent professional!

This is Dan´s homepage:
http://danimateit.com/about.html

Here is a link to his current showreel.
http://vimeo.com/danimateit/demoreel

Let´s do this!

Posing test

Moom preparing for the big show:

Hi there:

Noooooo:

Thirsty:

Post-marathon-post :D

Just some more doodles:

Flachköpper

Ok, marathons might be very nice, but this one was too much for me :D
I had to take a 2 day break and today I made a little ball-pen animation tribute to Brösel´s "Flachköpper". Have fun:

Day 6

Day 5

I cheated,
so here are my 50 "drawings" for today :D

Day 4

A little late, but nevertheless: