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Continuing the session is sketching depicting an excited character.

Here is the pose in 3D:

My first animation in class so I must prepare.
Here is my planning sketch of a bouncing kid sized basketball.



Here is the animation:
BouncingBall.mov

My good friend Dan and I went to Starbucks the other night for some good java, drawing and a little BS’n. Here are some of my sketches from that night. The circled sketch above is the one I chose for the posing assignment.

Here's another that did'nt make the cut:

This week and a half have been crazy busy. Learning Maya and the Principles of Animation.

-Sh

Second day of class and I'm meeting all of my classmates -it's amazing! What a great job they've done with the AnimationMentor site.

-Sh

I've been learning Maya over the last week or so and it's going well. The tutorials on lynda.com have been outstanding. Moving on to animation.

-Sh

Animation Mentor classes start on April 3, 2006.

Animation Mentor provides software training in Maya. Also they offer fully modeled and set-up characters ready to go for Maya. So it looks like I’ll be learning Maya over the next couple of weeks. Ironic though - I have been working in Softimage for over 10 years now and I love it and feel very comfortable with it, it’s like my own 3D nigh-nigh. But, in the end I think learning Maya will broaden my horizons and allow me to be a more versatile animator.

-Sh

Accepted to AnimationMentor.com
WooHoo! Let the animatin' begin!

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