Week 03 - Still Blocking

 

Mentor Notes:

- Stronger emotion is needed at the beginning

- Put in excitement after throw

- f40/41 insert inbetween

- f56 is not in balance, bring foot more forward

- let him lean into direction of interest

- f142 - knees are too bent

- get rid of the treee behind him, it breaks up the silhouette

Week 02 - Blocking

Reference:

 

 Blocking:

 

Mentor Notes:

-How is he surprised of the boomerang when he's looking right into the direction it's coming from?

-Stick a couple of trees around or something that's blocking his view (makes more sense that returning boomerang suprises him)

-Pose on frame 83 feels awkward

-Don't let him look on places the boomerang can't be (towards camera, to the right) it would make more sense for him to look more up

-f167 work on this pose - get him much lower to the ground through this part, give him a deep crouch (squash:)

-f173 immediatly turn your head - facing away

-f109  the feet are a bit too parallel

-Put returning boomerang in shot

- If you run out of time, cut the run at the end

-f169-173 you can have a bit of a scramble happen in the feet, here

-controlled moves at the beginning, then panic (chaos) - that's the emotion change

 -f171 freeze in this pose with big eyes. then relax a bit, blink blink (thinking "what just happened?")

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I tried greasepencil to draw clearer lines of action on my shot:

Week 01 - Pantomime

yay, new term :D

this week, it's all about pantomime

in my shot stewart is going to throw a boomerang, waiting for it to come back but instead of just the boomerang, a rotating cow is sitting on top of it and flying across the scene. surprised stewart is surprised and then... 

planning:

something i found:

Week 12 - Current AM-Reel

I didn't update the stuff from the first classes ;)

 

Things to remember:
- Frame by frame through great animation to learn how to push ideas and add texture to animation
- When shooting Reference Vids prefeel emotions before pressing record on vid cam
- Never forget the power of Breakdowns :)

Week 11 - Prefinal Assignments

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Mentor notes: 

Dancing Stan:

- f141-151 - leg straightens and then bends again (causes knee pop)

- f64 - foot pops up too quick, drag foot more

- f69 - something weird with this frame, have foot not so much up

- f34 head popping, have it more to the left (draws over near frames to find out what position fits best)

- f139-f152 - SR shoulder is funky, when coming up to f136 have the shoulder where it is on f150

Just hold pose up there without this weird drift

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Catching Bus:

- f42 - head is drifting around, just hold still after she hit the floor

- f54 - pop in back arm (cheat it over cut)

- f55 - pop in the front arm (let it come up slower)

- f113 - leave hand in this pose, weird stuff is going on with her thumb (hit it on f56 and leave it til 113)

- add a blink somewhere around frame 99

Week 10 - Neverending Dance

Mentor Notes:
- Add smearframes now, scale up hand on f15, f16,
- (Draws over hands and arms to avoid pops and make smoother arcs)
 - "You need polish at the end (...) Feels a bit herky jerky"

Week 9 - Snappy Timing

  

- If Rig has different proportions than your Reference, look that it's workign with your Model Don't stick to Ref.

Like Mr. Incredible:

 

00:58: The animator used his ref just for the upper body of Mr. Incredible. After that, he figured out what to do with the legs.