Planning Animation

I thought that I would share a very cool reference book. It's
called "Simplified Drawing for Planning Animation" by Wayne Gilbert.
It's about posing... And I've discovered... Had a lightbulb moment
really.... Just how incredibly useful the right kind of posing can
be to your animation. For me it's made huge differences in my work
and in my learning progress to date... So I totally recommend
posing...check it out!

Planning Animation

AM's 2008 Summer Showcase Reel

It's up and posted over on AnimationMentor.com
Go Check it out.... Cause it is AWESOME!!!
I just hope that I can be so talented one day ;)


http://www.animationmentor.com/quicktime/summer08showcase/


Enjoy!

How's it going Net???

Hey Everybody!
Some good friends of mine were recently giving me a hard time about not keeping up my blog... So here it is... a new post... Tada!!!!
This is, or was I should say, my progress reel for my second class at AnimationMentor.com
Class Two for me was quite a difficult time. I had trouble finding the time to devote to AM...and it shows in the reel too. I have learned a terrific lesson from my time spent struggling though... and that is to really... no, I mean REALLY... concentrate on your planning first. I had gotten to the point that when I got behind on the 1st assignment(freelance worked picked up and an expected cold/flu)...then the planning for the 2nd assignment suffered... then I got behind on that assignment (because the initial planning was crappy and I had to redo stuff)... so by the time that the 3rd assignment rolled around... again I cut short the planning... and it looks the worst of all the assignments...

Lesson learned though... So far I've taken a lot more time to do the initial planning and it has helped me along so much... I'm further along now in class three than I've ever been... and who knows... I might actually be able to go into an actual refining stage with this one *grin*
Nothing to show yet for class 3, but like I mentioned... I'm able now to try out my skills on stuff like overlapping action and follow through and nice arcs... oh and spacing... I've rather sucked at spacing so far in the past... so we'll see how it goes... wish me luck aye!!!

Here's the link to the class 2 reel on YouTube



I had trouble uploading it... the audio is supposed to be all under the first animation... the 180 'turn around'... but I'm tired of fusing with it... and it's not like I don't have other stuff to do *grin*

Till next post... Cheers!
~Net