animation

so i did sketches for my animation this weekend. and i decided to turn my character into a potato head type guy. i have a head and a hand, so i'll just attach them and put some short stumpy legs and feet. i'm gonna make like a bouncy ball with a face who is gonna be in the animation with mr. spuds.

character 2

The character is almost done. The hand is attached, I just have to work on the legs, and mirror the half of the character that I have. I have notes on the skeleton, so i'll probably come to the lab tomorrow to try to get that finished. I also want to try to make the bouncing ball because I missed class when we did that.

character

so i basically finished the face/head in class today. and I started the body. I'm following the notes that I took from class, but I'll bring the book with me this weekend when I come to work on it in case I need more references and help and stuff....

pirate

So, I kind of have an idea of what I'm doing. I got the cheeks. and the nose. I just have to figure out what I want the profile of this guy to look like, and I should be ok finishing the eyes and ears and mouth. As for the body, I took plenty of notes on how to make it from one object or as a conglomeration of shapes, so i should be ok on that part as well.

character

So, my pirate. his face. he looks like a wombat. I'm kind of having trouble with it. I think I might change what i'm doing. I have to draw out the rest of his body anyway. I don't know. I was all excited and prtty much knew what I was doing, but now I'm having hard time. I want to do animation, but I think I need to find some more free time to devote to working on my assignments.

sketches

So i drew a couple sketches....a few i threw out cuz i hated them, but i kept two. one is an eskimo, he is ok. but i really like my pirate. so far i have only drawn his face and half of his body. i have a hard time with bodies. i'm going to try to make it very animated looking because i took figure drawing and realistic people is not my thing....but im excited to try to make him in maya.

class

I realized that I forgot to make the speakers in my scene. oops! I think I understood everythign we covered in class about the basic hand and face. I plan on reading the manual as well to learn different ways to do things. I didn't understand about the sphere that created that clear plastic/metalic look on the cans in that one student's project that was shown in class on Wednesday (ya know, that really insanely good one). I want to be able to model stuff like that guy can. I would love to do animation for a living.