So week 11 of class 5 at Animation Mentor is now over. We still have week 12 left, so we’re not technically done, but there is no work that needs to be done that week, so I consider it done. It’s been a great term thanks to our fantastic mentor Mario Pochat. Personally I didn’t do anywhere near as good of a job as I could have, and should have, and that is something I definitely have to make up for in class 6 which is right around the corner now.
So I’m really not sure if I’ll bother with uploading my final assignment to my blog as I really don’t think it turned out well at all. Actually, that putting it nicely, it looks like crap. And seeing as class 6 at AM consists of cleaning up all of the old shots that we have done, I would much more like to show it on the blog once I’ve gone through it again, and actually made it look relatively good. Because it is a really funny dialogue piece to animate to, but I just couldn’t get the preformance to work, and I just need a second look at it. Maybe I’ll upload it, maybe I won’t. I’ll think about it.
Anyway! I am also planning on re-designing my blog now in my brief time away from AM. Been thinking about it for some time now, because, frankly, I’m bored to death with the current design and I need something new to look at. In addition to that I have what you might call a mini announcement to make that I’m very excited about. But for reasons I can’t explain I don’t want to talk about it before the new design is up, hopefully some time next week.
Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going fire up Photoshop and play around a little and see what happens. And for some reason, after having watched (and re-watched) way to many episodes of The Kevin Pollak Chat Show recently, I have a strange urge to watch The Usual Suspects again. A movie I literally haven’t seen in years, so I’ll probably put that in the DVD-player later.
So, there you go. I really hope anything I wrote here made sense.
Posts Tagged ‘class 5’
End of Class 5 and Some Other Stuff
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Class 5 – Week 8, Blocking-Plus
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010We are getting dangerously close to the end of Class 5 at Animation Mentor, only three weeks of work left actually, and I still have a ton of stuff to do on my current assignment, which basically means that this is gonna be a rough week. Last week I managed to improve my shot quite a bit. I was hoping I would be able to start splining it to, but sadly I didn’t, so I’m going to have to do a ton of splining this week.
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Class 5 – Week 7, Blocking
Monday, February 22nd, 2010So, yeah, I know I’ve been horrible when it comes to uploading my Animation Mentor work these last few weeks, but now I finally got around to doing it. I was supposed to have this uploaded yesterday, but apparantly Flickr didn’t like me very much, and I couldn’t upload my shot before today (something about a codec that I have always used not working anymore, I have no idea why). Anyway, my two person dialogue shot is almost blocked out completely. All I need is comfirmation from my mentor that everything works.
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Dialogue Choices
Monday, February 1st, 2010Those of us in class 5 at Animation Mentor have finally started working on a new assignment. Thank god! On the other hand, that means animating two, that’s right TWO, characters in the same shot. Which honestly scares the crap out of me. But I’m also glad that I’ll have something fresh and new to work on.
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Class 5 – Week 2
Monday, January 18th, 2010So the second week at Animation Mentor has just finished, the assginment has been handed in, and a new week has begun. This week was pretty good over-all. Got alot of work done early, and didn’t have to spend my entire weekend stressing to get the shot done. I think I’ll try that approach this week too. Seems like a pretty solid plan.
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