Class 4- 2 Character Shot

Here's my splined out animation for a two character dialogue shot - it's a work in progress.

Class 4- 2 Character Shot

Here's my blocked out animation for a two character dialogue shot - it's a work in progress.

Dialogue

It's been a while since I've posted.
Here's my spline animation for a dialogue shot - work in progress.

Those old TV sets

Here's my spline animation for a acting shot - work in progress.

Dialogue

Here's my spline animation for a dialogue shot, with limited facial controls - work in progress.

Blocked Dialogue

Here's my blocked animation for a dialogue shot.

Class 3- Animation Mentor

Here's my blocked animation for a 2 beat acting shot.

Progress Reel

Here is my Progress Reel from Class 2

Dive

Here's my splined animation for the Dive.

Dive

Here's my blocked animation for a Dive.

Jump

Here's my splined animation for the pole Jump.

Jump Block

Here's my blocking animation for the pole Jump.

Ballie 180 degree turn

Here's my polished animation for the 180 turn.

Animation Mentor Class 2

Well, I started back up AM two weeks ago. Here's my first blocked animation for the 180 turn.

Wall•e

I saw wall•e at the midnight showing. It was incredible. Wall•e is totally an ET meets Johnny 5. The movie was superb; the animation was incredible especially since the main characters don’t speak much. I definitely give it two thumbs up, go see it. Don’t forget to see Kung Fu Panda too, another great film this summer. I think it’s one of Dreamworks best films.

Thesis Defense

Well, I passed my defense. It was so nerve racking. There are still a few things I would like to fix.
Here are the suggestions of the panel:
The credits - do a dissolve. Scrolling text has bugs in after effects.
Fix the lights
Bring the animation to that polished level (more movement)
Watch the cuts- on the one the guy’s arm should be in the shot

Thesis Due

I handed in my project about hour ago. I had so much trouble burning my dvd. Idvd keep taking the sound from the previous projects. It's finally in and done

Update

I got most of my shots rendered yesterday except for two and I still want to redo the occlusion pass. I want to tweak the animation on shot 4-20 a bit today. I’m also going to do the 2-d skeleton, tweak the color and fix the glow effect. The book is pretty much done; I’ll get it bound tomorrow, and burn the two disks than as well.

What I still need to work on

Three days left and I still need to:
Fix the animation for Shots 3-20 and 4-20
Re-render out the shots with new render layers
Composite and fix colors
Motion Blur
2-D skeleton
Fix the Book
Burn the DVD and Data CD

Update

My first shot has been taken 12 hours just for the beauty pass. The others seem to be ok. As I was compositing, I realized I set up my render layers wrong. For example I had the dog on a separate layer than the table, I thought that would work for the motion blur. Now the dogs hand is under the table. My lights need tweaking too. At least I should have a sample to show Mike tomorrow. I’m going to have to start re-rendering everything tomorrow and fix my layers and lights. I also want to fix the animation on two shots yet. My plan is to start re-rendering tomorrow on one computer. To fix the animation on another as well as fix the 2d skeleton for the electrocution shot. Rendering tomorrow night as well as I’ll have to fix my book. Hopefully I can work on compositing, and the motion blur on Tuesday any maybe burn my DVD on Tuesday night