Basket Ball Bounce

For this assignment, we were given the task to animate a ball bouncing with the look and feel of a basketball.  With manipulation to the timing and spacing, I was able to achieve such an effect.

Excited Stu

The next assignment of the new semester was to pose Stu in a way that displayed excitement.  We first had to sketch different exciting poses and choose our favorite for Stu.

Sketches of Excitement.

Excited Stu.

NEW SEMESTER: Stu

Stu is a character Animation Mentor gave to us students to pose (and eventually animate).  To help us understand Stu, we were first given a chance to pose him.  We were required to go out in the world and sketch people in different poses.  I went to the mall and a bookstore for my poses and decided to pose my Stu standing, reading an open book, scratching his head.

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One Step, Two Step

Our final assignment of the semester was to animate a model, or rig, by making it step, or in this case, hop.  We had little guidance for this assignment and just had to act on intuition.  For more videos and assignments, please click the BIG D! here or above!

THE CLAW

After some tutorials and exercises on making objects move and manipulating their paths of motion, we were assigned to make a model of a claw turn, pick up a can, and set it back down.  If possible, we were challenged to include a little bit of personality into the claw as well.  For more videos and assignments, please click the BIG D! here or above!

Still Life

Our next task was to use shapes in a still life and render them with different colors and textures to get various effects.  We also had to use a number of light sources to get some good shadows cast.

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Haunted House

One of our next assignments was to create a scene that conveyed an emotion AND told a story.  To do this, we had to construct our own environment and capture shot from two different angles.  Since it was right around Halloween, I chose to build a haunted house!

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My First Assignment

Our first assignment required us to use a static image given by the school and recreate the image as best we could using the Maya software.

School's Picture.

Left: My Final Shelf / Right: Final Shelf in wire frame.

Maya 2011 Software

This is an inside look at Maya2011, the program I use to animate.  It was definitely overwhelming at first, but once I started to become familiar with the tool I needed, I caught on real quick!

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My First Animation

This is a video of my first animation-- this is the extent of my capabilities before my knowledge of animation today.