Thursday, December 16, 2010

Halfway finished already ????

How time flies by! I am already halfway through animationmentor - can't quite believe it myself, it still feels like I began just a couple of weeks ago.

These last days before christmas break we are summing up and reviewing what we learned in class 3 the past three months. It has all been about body mechanics, animating physicality, and I must say that this was the hardest class so far with lots of hard work on the assignments but also with a lot of new information and "stuff" pouring in all the time that somehow caused some kind of information overload in my poor head.
At this stage it really feels like I could stay at this level for months or years and just repeat the things I've learned so far, read the same stuff over, do the same kind of physicality exercises and work on getting to understand this complex area of animation better.

But - come january there will be new challenges as we go into acting classes. I'm really looking forward to that immensly, it will be a lot of fun.... but... I really could have used another three months of jumping and running and leaping and falling and balancing.

Here is my compiled "anim jam"-assignment from the advanced body mechanics class. I hope to get back to it later, in polish and portfolio class, and do some more polishing and maybe add some more detail to the setting.