AM Q6 Week 1 Progress Reel

I am back at AM for the last quarter and there is a lot of work to do. This Quarter is all polish and working and reworking all of my shots. I have 11 short weeks to take me from a C- Student to at least a B- animator.

Originally I was going to skip this post because the homework was simply to upload your progress reel, then I remembered that I didn't finish posting my work from last quarter. Last quarter ended poorly for me, I fell behind one week and was never able to catch up, so I stopped posting because it was disappointing work. I was planning to go back and retroactively post some of the work, which I might, but it until then I will just add the end of the quarter's progress.

Posting this after the fact, I got a C- over all on my work, where an A would be professional and a C would be a good student animator, so I feel that is a very fair evaluation of my work. I know I need to put in more time and do more projects. This makes me long to be out of school and do something like these for fun, but until then I will try my best to work on these for school.

AM Q4 ASN2 Week12 Progress Reel

Another quarter under my belt. Here you can see all the progress I have made. I was too tried to make a new header so I reused the old one. I've learned so much I hope I remember all of it for when I get to start a new scene. I hope that during my break I make some time to keep working on my shot. I think I plan on knocking out a couple of sections and cleaning them up. Until next quarter, I think I will game it up for a while, I got Dead Island waiting at home

AM Q3 Progress Reel

Well I have reached the end of Quarter 3 and I can't wait until Quarter 4. Here is everything that I have done thus far at Animation Mentor (in reverse order).

Wow, I hadn't realized how much I grew this quarter until I saw this. I guess that is the point. I have to say that the first assignment is painful to watch, but is actually my favorite. It has lots of fun little segments and I like the change in attitude. . I think I will spend some time and make that work. Maybe I'll change the tree to a dummyI have a much better idea on how to do that now. I also want to improve that drunk scene.
On our last Q&A of the quarter Jalil gave me a special shout out for tanasity, because I guess I got extra hard critiques and I didn't let it phase me and he was happy with my progress. He was my favorite mentor, he pushed me hard and he taught me so much. I have regained my animators eye and now it is impossible to watch anything without critiquing the motion and studding it. It is a gift and a curse and I think it will only get worse, but the first step to becoming a better animator is learning to see motion and break it down. The more you can see the more you can see in your own animation and you will be able to improve it. I wonder which mentor I will get next quarter.
I though I would add the still for my title card this quarter with Spike and I as vikings yelling over ale. This was before I had to cut the sword out to fit in the text. Now for winter break, which will be filled with more work and animation.

AM Q2 Progress Reel

Well I have reached the end of Quarter 2 and I can't wait until Quarter 3. Here is everything that I have done thus far at Animation Mentor (in reverse order).
I decided to make a new title page ever quarter because they are fun to make and this one didn't take me too long to make.
I don't think when I made it into a video that it went very well, it got really pixilated and I'm not sure why.
I really love how you can see the progress I have made. Though watching this makes me want to go back into all those old shots and clean them up! Shows me that I am getting my animators eye back, I can see way more errors now then I could before.I think I will spend some time cleaning up some of them in the future.

AM Quarter One Progress Reel

Whoo! I have successfully gotten to the end of the quarter. Here is the fruits of my labor.

Next quarter I am going to make an effort on relearning how to make better renders at least for my sketch book assignments. The animation is the most important but a nice render doesn't hurt. Yay! A new academic goal for next quarter.