1 Year at AM

Hey Folks

after 1 Year of working and animating and constantly ignoring my sleep-deficit, i arrived at the end of class 4...

This all was a totally awesome ride... My Mentors Jalil Sadool, Mario Pochat, Chad Sellers and most recently Ray Chase just gave me so much Inspiration that i really dont know how to say thank you.

Now were heading to Class 5... Advanced Acting, then Polish and Portfolio... and after that its already over...
Ill reduce my time at work to spend more of it to my assignments so i hopefully find someone who wants to hire me :-)
I hope i can also spend a bit more time to the blog wich is an awsome tool to express mi thoughts.

Here something to motivate everyone for the next term.

Ok thanks for reading and talk to you soon :-)



Luke

Week 12 and Start of Class 2

Hey there!

Aaaaall riiight... class 1 is History... unfortunately... i wish i had spent more time to it... i feel like i have to learn so many things about those basic principles...
But the School goes on :-) wich i find super exciting :-)

Next 12 Weeks we will talk about Basic Body Mechanics. (The class is called Psychology of body mechanics) Our first lecture revolved around weight and balance wich was awesome!!! I really learned much in just 30 minutes.

I also met my new class wich is awesome as well :-) you see... everything is awesome here at AM!! And im not exaggerating for once...

I will upload my class one reel as soon as im finished with polishing... there are lots of things to do like render the shots out and tweak some animations... youll hear from me soon :-)


Cheers
Luke

Week 11

hey fellas

this week we had to refine our blocked walk from last week... since i knew i dont have much time to work on the weekend i worked an extra hour every evening... the result was i didnt have enough sleep... im really tired at the moment and just want to go to sleep right now :-)

but first lets go back to the assignment:
i exaggerated my poses a bit and also changed the timing a bit... now it looks pretty cool for me :-) take a look at the video below... we had to do a new pose as well... this weeks topic was BALANCE...

wow almost 3 months ago since this adventure started...

are you ready for class 2! :-)

Week 8 - 10

Wow... unbelievable... were animating walk cycles :-)
damn this shit is hard! But soooo much fun as well!

below you can see my refined "vanilla walk" (common walk without "personality") Furthermore we had to pose out CONCERN...

This week were blocking a "personality" walk. After doing some reference work i decided to do a sneaky one :-) we have to do an EXHAUSTED pose as well, but i havent finished it yet. Ok back to work... cu soon


Rock on!!! :-)

Session 6 and 7... Finally

Hey guys... finally im back in here.
Had some hard weeks cause my internet connection did not work... actually it still doesnt work... but i found ways to help me out :-)

you missed a lot guys... we had so many cool topics in the last few weeks... timing and spacing... where we had to learn how to let things move realistic... anticipation and squash and stretch wich makes a movement readable and clear. It can make it look cartoony as well if you use it extensively.

Last weeks assignment revolved around follow through and overlap. If you speed up an object... or slow it down... attached objects will follow delayed or move a bit further than the main object...

The most interesting and demanding part for me in this first 6 weeks was to realize that i have to simulate everything... gravity, inertia, every contact point... everything!
Every object in the computer has no "body" and no weight... they would fly through each other if i d tell them so...

the video is my assignment for week 6 "overlap and follow through" enjoy.

Next week we will talk about arcs and spline editing.

Stay tuned and keep sketching guys ;-)

Week3

Hey everyone :-) another week at AM!
It definitely gets harder...
Wich pose would YOU choose to communicate "EXCITEMENT"?

My favourite is Nr.3 or one oft the three guys on the fence, but i really not shure wich one i should pick...

the other part of the assignment is to animate a bouncing ball...
our very first animation :-) im so excited :-)

wish a nice rest of the week to everyone...

cheers
Luke

Session 2

Week 2... first "real" Assignment... Pleas help me pick a pose! :-)

cheers

Finally! First week at AM

We just had our first Q&A Session with our mentor Jalil Sadool.
This 2hour "Double Session" was so inspiring. He told us about the way he made. How he got his first job or how he worked on Narnia and other Movies. He gave us so many helpful tips to succeed in this demanding Program called animation mentor.

Im really looking forward to the next session. Its revolving around oberving whats going on around us, sketching and posing it out.

yeppeeee! It started! And im so exited to be part of this :-)

take care folks and see you soon