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Balance

Daniel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:21:06 +0000

The Stu Pose:

Exhausted

Daniel — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:17:37 +0000

This week’s pose is “Exhausted”. Check it.

These are the sketches:

This is the final Stu post:

Concern

Daniel — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:30:00 +0000

This week’s assignment for the character pose: Concern

Let me just start by stating: Showing complex emotions without a face is quite difficult – especially without props to help convey the message in the scene. With that being said, here are my sketches:

#4 Translated to Stu:

Strength

Daniel — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:55:46 +0000

My updated Stu pose. I fixed his balance (ie, center of gravity line), per the critique of my Mentor:

My final Stu pose:

My gesture sketches:

Introduction to Walks pt.1

Daniel — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:22:46 +0000

Last week was awesome! It was basically, my first character to animate. Now, we’re getting deeper. After being introduced to “Ballie”, we are instructed to create our first walk cycle. This one is totally plain and simple (“vanilla” is what they call it). So no bells and whistles yet.

Oh, and this week is only a blocking pass in Pose-to-Pose style animation. I don’t have any reference footage yet. Hopefully, I can score some footage soon so I can double check my work. Yeah… I already started animating. Hey, I can’t help it!

Here is my first pass:

[qt:http://animation.redforty.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/walk_181.mov 480 360]

Oh, and btw, the pose for this week is STRENGTH. So sketches are incoming soon!

Devastation

Daniel — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:55:26 +0000

Whoops! Almost forgot about the pose assignment for this week. We are supposed to sketch and pose the emotion “Devastation”. Here’s my sketches. I’ll upload the Stu pose later today or tomorrow.

*edit* Stu here today!

Bouncing Ball 04

Daniel — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:23:21 +0000

Ok, so I checked out the timings when the ball hits the ground. Feeling the ‘losing energy part’ I think is difficult. I can easily bend in the tangents on the upwards movement, but too much and the ball gains this weird property of being light when it rises and heavy when it falls. Is there a trick around that?

I managed to finagle it as much as possible to take in the advice. The first hit against the wall is with a little more force now (the tangent is now straight and not bent there), and I even have it lose energy in that hit as well to make up for the speed difference and to drop the ball a little lower on the rebound so it doesn’t feel so snappy after that.

So, this is the update with everyone’s advice to heart. What do you think?

[qt:http://animation.redforty.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/simpleball_04.mov http://animation.redforty.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/simpleball_04.mov 480 360]

New Stu Pose

Daniel — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:34:29 +0000