Blake Norris

New Word of the Day Challenge - Laconic

Turns out I need to practice my facial animation. So, I came up with a very nice idea: Take the Word-of-the-Day from Dictionary.com, and animate Bishop 2.0, from Animation Mentor, saying that word. Yesterday's word was laconic:

–adjective
using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconicreply.

I began this challenge with Martha Murrie, a fellow AMer. Here's my resulting animation for the first WotD Challenge:



And here is Martha's WotD, same word, different acting choice:

Class 3 - Assignment 2 - Intermediate Stewie!

Reference: Heavy Sword from Isai Calderon on Vimeo.

Here's the reference for my next animation. Stewie will be swinging a heavy, two-handed sword. Enjoy!

Class 3 - Session 6 - Intermediate Stewie from Isai Calderon on Vimeo.

Here's my next animation :) This is Stewie in sequence to what happened in the last video. He is now a little stronger, and an enemy appeared. He attacks (kind of)!

Class 3 - Session 3 - Amateur Stewie!

Amateur Stewie from Isai Calderon on Vimeo.
Sorry I haven't posted anything lately :( Work has me extremely busy, so Blog maintenance has gone down quite a bit.



Here's my newest video. Amateur Stewie! Blocking-Plus stage!

Class 2 - Session 5 - Blocking

Class 2 - Session 5 - Blocking from Isai Calderon on Vimeo.

This next animation is of a drunk armless Stewie. In it, he's stumbling to get onto his feet, but fails and falls. Once again, any critique is welcome :) This is the blocking stage.

Class 2 - Session 3 - Polishing

Class 2 - Session 3 - Polishing from Isai Calderon on Vimeo.

This is the Polishing Pass. Here, I've set all the curves into Splines. This means that, different to the last video, instead of looking like it's skipping frames, the character looks like a more smooth animation now. Next up, Refining. Enjoy!

Class 2 - Session 1 and 2 - Reference and Blocking

Class 2 - Session 1 and 2 - Reference from Isai Calderon on Vimeo.

Here's the reference I'm using for my next assignment. It's start/stop animation with a 360 turn. I will be using this to animate Ballie doing pretty much the same movements, with a few variations.

Class 2 - Session 2 - Ballie 360 from Isai Calderon on Vimeo.

And here's the first pass. The blocking. If you have any critiques to make it better they are all greatly appreciated!