These were the exercises accomplished this quarter and have been posted in this blog:
- bouncing ball
- 2 bouncing balls with differing weights
- drink box
- walk cycle
- run cycle
- pantomime
- hip turn
- one emotion
- gear change - two emotions
- creating a demo reel.
The question I encountered this week, is what should the next exercises be. In my thesis proposal, I had planned to do two major assignments that would be developed next quarter, dialogue with a single character, then dialogue between two characters.
I spoke to the animation instructor about it and he felt the dialogue exercises should be last, and that more should be done before being attempting dialogue. These exercises should be attempted below but in an 11 week it might be difficult to teach this to students. An alternative would be teach and develop a curriculum spanning 2 quarters (22 weeks).
- another gear change assignment of different emotions (2 weeks).
- an animation showing 4 emotions (these two would be blocked in pantomimes in the beginning) 3 weeks.
- a body mechanics animation (ie. a character jumping off of a high place or picking up a heavy object). 1 week
- Pantomime animation with 2 people. (1 week)
- Dialogue animation assignment with 1 person. (2 weeks)
- Dialogue animation assignment with 2 people (not sure if there's time for this one - 2 weeks).
These would be the animation assignments I have slated for next quarter.
As an example, please see Rebecca Perez' demo reel, it features many of the assignments mentioned above and its a good example of what I'm striving for. She's a Disney Animator (perhaps Dori knows her) and she accomplished these exercises through the Animation Mentor class.
http://www.wik-id.com/reb/AM/Class2/A12/ALLanims_sm.mov
and
http://www.wik-id.com/reb/AM/Class1/A12/AM_Class1_Anim_comp_sm.mov
I'm wondering what feels the best to you as far as which assignments to go forward with. What do you guys think?
Thanks,
Randolf
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