Monday, October 12, 2015

Animation 101


When I came to FIEA I planned on specializing in 3D modeling, and had no intention of bothering with the animation classes. Whoops. During undergrad I was interested in only animation, to the detriment of all other basic skills. After spending time forcing myself to learn how to model I found other interests, and before long, animating became more and more of a distant memory. I begrudgingly dragged myself in at 9am to attend the first week of animation classes, since everyone else was doing it, and before I knew it everything I thought I was going to do when I came here suddenly flew out the window. It was sort of like being on a self imposed junk food free diet for 10 years and being placed in front of a tray of brownies; one bite and its all over. I left class wondering why I stopped animating in the first place, and soon after declared animation as my specialty. This is a run cycle that I just finished for homework this week:






Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Common Core Week 6

This week we finished off our starfish characters by polypainting in ZBrush. I typically use Mudbox for painting, and hadn't used ZBrush for this previously. After painting this guy, I'm officially a convert. Here's how he turned out: