Ball with Roll Exercise

I found out who my class 1 mentor will be and I'm totally stoked. It will be Anthony Wong - an animator from Pixar, who also has Disney on his resume. Class 1 starts tomorrow. Let the real animation education begin!

In the interim, I thought I should try to learn a bit about bouncing balls. My focus here was supposedly the roll, as I avoided adding rolls in my MSW exercises. This exercise has not had any feedback, so I'm sure it's full of flaws. Please do bring any weaknesses to my attention if you notice them.

I have so many questions to ask and am so pumped for the core part of AM. Here's the beginning of the point of no return, and I'm diving in head first.

Maya Springboard Progress Reel

It's now week 11 of my first term ever at Animation Mentor. Actual classes and assignments have finished, and I've compiled all my exercises done during this time (including some non-assignments) into this one video progress reel. The focus of the Maya Springboard class was becoming comfortable with the technology, so there was no mentoring of the 'art' itself. However, we were able to give each other comments, and this feedback helped immensely. From here onwards, things can only get better (sounds like a song I know....)



FYI to any non Animation Mentor folk looking at this, AM terms are pretty busy and we generally post our work internally within the AM site. Consequently, during my time at AM I may only update this blog at the end of each term.