Crunched what I could before going to Vegas on Friday for NAB. It’s pretty rough and trying the record every 4th frame for blocking as one lesson suggests as a technique didn’t really work out well for me, I think its complicated things and made it really hard for me to focus on great poses and timing as my mind is too focused on making the 4th frame instead of thinking about it is “KEY” frames.

Hopefully I can fix it up a lot while in Vegas, but well it is Vegas and I’m a notorious gambler so I’m not setting high expectations on myself.

An overall uneventful week for me personally, I took the time to recover in the evenings which of course meant I was also procrastinating a little from assignment, I kept trying things but not being happy with what was coming out at all, but I think I finally started to figure it out. Still a lot of issues in it at this point but the nice thing is there two more weeks to refine it and I know Mike will have a lot of critiques.

QA was awesome we went over again and Mike is really good about analyzing the lecture and discussing things he likes and doesn’t like about what was said. Really makes you think and not just take the lectures as the bible but more of a good recommendation, and really find your own way.

Anyways here is the beginning of Ballie taking a very big step across a gap.

A crazy week this week, with all the added expenses of AM and Amanda’s apprentice ship, I’ve been considering doing some freelance and sure enough a great project that I can’t really talk about came along. Unfortunately its a really intensive project, but will really challenge me. That does mean that I’m now working two jobs and school at the moment and my sleep has been really messed up since I got back from Germany, so a lot of random sleep and headaches this week.

This week was another two parter assignment with the first week again being the blocking of the walk, but this time with Character. Next week we’ll refine the walk and render our first assignment form a 3/4 view with perspective.

Of course with such a busy Week even Stu is exhausted.

And with only blocking this week I managed to squeeze in revisions.

Oi what a hectic week Getting ready to go to Germany on some business meant hunkering down early on my animation assignment. Fortunately I got it all done before flying out. That is until I landed in Germany got to the airport and decided to tweak a little, based on some great feedback form other AM students and mentors, which lead me me into having to upload and the Internet access at the hotel was $3 for a half hour. Yeesh.

Anyways Ballie blocking, this was the first 2 parter assignment so this was just blocking because next week we’ll refine.

And of course Stu showing some Strength, GO Stu GO!