Rigs1

Rigs2

Go out and observe people and create sketches of people in different poses.  Remember to focus on the body language first.  The persons attitude and emotion should be expressed in their pose.  Break the body down into shapes and lines.   Upload scans or pics of your sketches to LMS.

Here is a section from Gesture Drawing for Animation for inspiration.

This is a useful site full of examples of backgrounds for animations. Look at these example as you collect reference material for the environment you will create.

Animation Backgrounds

This is a link to a useful Mel script that allows you to track your arcs and check your spacing.

ArcTracker107

Files

Seahorse

Figure Drawing Lab is on Wednesdays 12-2 in West Hall 411.  Everyone is welcomed.

Bring drawing materials.

Due Tuesday 2/14

Choose an organic, natural object.  Prepare reference images and create a model of the object.  Upload maya file to LMS.

Due Friday 2/10

Create a short animation of a bouncing ball.  Don’t worry about squash and stretch we will be focusing on that next week.  Focus on timing and spacing.  If you wanted to complicate the assignment, add change in rotation. This animation should be at least 50 frames and no longer than 100 frames.  The playblast of the animation should be from the side camera and then uploaded to your vimeo account.  In LMS submit a link to the video.

This is due Tuesday 2/6.

Find a household object, prepare reference images (drawn or photo) and create a polygonal model of the object. Upload maya file to LMS.