Intro to Maya

So, the first two weeks after a two hard weeks working on the trailer project went with getting to know Autodesk Maya and how to animate in the program. I learned how to use the graph editor, but I really like to work in stepped frames. I still need to learn a lot, but I'm starting to like this a lot!
Most of the assignments we already did in 2D on first year, so we already knew all the basics, which was nice!

The second assignment we got was about to make three balls with different weight.



For the third assignment we had to animate a ball that was moving in a room.

In the fourth assignment we were given a Luxo lamp with 4 controllers, it was really difficult, but in the end I got the hang of it.

Then we had two days for animating a Luxo lamp with personality. 

Mine is an old lady who has to suddenly run for her life.

The last assignment we given was about to make balls move to the beat of music.

This is what I ended up doing. :)

Intro to Maya

For the last three days of our first school year at the Animation Workshop we were introduced to the program that we're going to use next year, Maya.
We made some small assignments in the beginning just to get to know the program, which was really nice. I ended up making a picture of one of the characters from Team Fortress 2 that I really love!
It was a nice year and I wish I could take another :) 

End Year Exam

This is the result of my end year exam. I'm very happy with the grade I got, but I still think I could work a lot more on the animation in this one.

La Poudrière

We had a week with some french students from the school, La Poudrière. We were again divided into groups and worked on small projects. The students from France were our directors and had before landing in Denmark prepared a concept, characters, storyworld and so on. We had to help them decide on the animation style.
This is what our group ended up making. I animated the yellow dog, who was a really big douchebag.

Flash

Flash is really, really, REALLY hard to use for animation in my opinion. It was also really fun.
I learned a lot, but I hope that I'll never use it again for animation. :)

Short, Short Film

I'm very lazy at these blog updates, but I guess better late than never. 

Ok, so we were having a month working on a small project called the "Short, Short Film" where we had to create a 30 sec. film. We had to make the movie for kids, so we had to make it really goofy but still for kids to watch. Kids from a kindergarten were visiting us to give us some feedback on our idea, and they especially liked the smashing parts. We had a lot of trouble finding out what our story should be about, but I think we succeeded very well in the end. I worked mostly on animation, clean-up and managing things in the group. I also helped a lot with the character design and making character references, so I was very busy. :) I learned a lot from making this little movie!

Our story is very funky, I hope you enjoy!

We had John Kricfalusi as one of our style guides which was really cool!