Class 3 Begins.....

After one week of wonderful break from school, it's now time to get back to animation. I got some sneak peak on some of the class 3 assignments during the break(ugh...bad idea), we have two choices, one is to go with one theme and break it down into 3 shots throughout 12 weeks, another one is choose 3 different themes to work on. I was feeling nervous about it already, I started to plan out my shots in my head whenever I can, and man..... planning sure drains out a lot from you, it's what I consider one of the hardest process in making animation.

I already have list of actions in my head that I wanted to do or challenge myself that I haven't done yet. After several sleepless night, I finally came up with a theme to work on, for some unknown reason, I wanted to pair up Stewie(my character) with a lawn mower because I think it would show really good sense of weight and timing as stewie is starting the lawn mower. Obviously, I couldn't get a good reference video of myself pulling lawn mower in Las Vegas(yes, we have no grass, but we do have fake grass), so YouTube is my friend!! I got some really nice clips from it and my coworker suggested this really good idea of letting me borrow her P-90X stretch tool for me to imitate myself starting the lawn mower. So here's what I have so far for the planning...