Class 3 Week 5 - Stewie's Unstartable Lawn Mower(?) Part II Blocking

Class 3 Week 4 - Stewie's Unstartable Lawn Mower Refining

Here's my latest version, I will be move on to working on different shot next but I will continue to tweak those little areas that might need attention to make it flows better

Class 3 Week 3 - Stewie's Unstartable Lawn Mower Blocking Plus

I've implemented some suggestions from my fellow mentor and classmates such as giving it more overshoot after he falls back, rotate the hip a bit as he stumbles back....etc. Still need to fix more stuff, standby for the new revision Sunday :)



Here's my final adjustment for this week's submission, few major changes are foot movement and ending, didn't get to spline mode yet...hope I can get it done in next 7 days :-p

Class 3 Week 2 - Stewie's Unstartable Lawn Mower Blocking

Here's my first blocking pass for my first part of my anim jam story
I may still need to work on timing a bit more....

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...

Class 2 Wk12 - Wrapping Things Up - Class 1&2 Progress Reel

Here's my progress reel with all of the works I did from Class 1 and Class 2 with newest shots in the beginning. There seems to be some drop frame issue also after uploading big video.....if anyone know a good video uploading tool let me know.

Class 2 Wk11 - Butterfly Kick & Twist Animation Final

No time for twittering, but I'm sure doing a lot of tweaking.....here's what I have for now and was approved by my mentor, added more overlapping in spine, arm and head area in the ending pose. I'm still going to continue pushing the spacing even more...