Back brace - an animation by Squared productions

I like a good story. Here is one. The cutout-style animation is simple but stylish, I think.
Found the clip on vimeo, more info on the creators here

The Back Brace from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

Yessssssss!!! ...and nooooooooo!!!!

YESSSS!!! - at last the maya spingboard begins for real. I just browsed through some of the training material. And I already learned a lot from that alone. Awesome!

and

NOOOOOOOO....!!! We were supposed to have our first "meet and greet Q&A" with our Maya trainer today. We, the students, were all there - but the trainer wasn't. :-) Some misunderstanding, I'm sure. We were promised a makeup Q&A ...or something.
Well, better luck come wednesday! :-)

still a couple of weeks to go...

I have been very busy at work these two last weeks... Lots of stuff that just had to be done... I have had some loong days... So there hasn't been much time or energy left for animation exercises or reading in the evenings lately. Maybe I'll find some time this weekend again. I hope so! :-)

What else is new? Well, I just received my copy of Maya (the autodesk education suite) the other day and installed it. Holy baloney - now THERE's a lot of menus and buttons......!!!! Insaaaane! - Haha, no, I'm not too worried really, I have always been a computer geek, I know my way around computers in general AND I'm not completely new to IK and FK animating since I have been doing some hobbyist animation in 2D for a while using "Anime studio Pro".

If there's anything I'll find hard now when we start learning to use Maya, the tool - I think it will be getting out of 2d and into 3D, understanding how to move around in 3D space in the work area. You know, finding the workflow and the understanding of how to move around... before it becomes a second nature how to handle it.
Do you know any store where you can buy a "3D mindset"? Tell me if you do, I would buy it straight away. :-)

I'm really glad I decided to take the springboard class. I think I need it. :-)


BTW, it was nice to meet the fellow springboard students at the recent, first Q&A:s. Looking forward to get to know everyone a little better.

Another 3 weeks of waiting...!

hmpf.....!

I thought that when jan 4th comes so does also the beginning of my studies. Not quite so. I'll have to wait another three weeks before my first class starts...

So... what do I do then, for three weeks??

Well, I have my normal job to take care of, naturally. And in some respects it's even a good thing that I don't get too distracted with all the fun stuff at AM... :-)

And if I get bored I have this new webcam-thing I can play with!

10 minutes to start of winter term...

I am impatiently sitting here and waiting for the AM site to open. Soon I will have the first glimpse of what my three months of Maya springboard will look like. And I still have a couple of days to fully concentrate on surfing the campus and getting to know the place. My day job starts thursday... - So come on now, sesame, open up your gates!