Session 2: Chaplin pose fixes

Thanks for your comments everyone, I fixed (I hope) the pose as Bartek and Terry suggested. It's hard to portray weight on his left arm, I tried bending his arm but it loses strength or effort on the cane, so I played with the line of action on his upper body and arm. Also I tilted his head sideways and makes it more interesting. This is what I think looks better than the previous one.

Session 2: additional pose

On last night's Q&A Bret mentioned that its ok to submit more than one pose, I guess the more that you do, it talks about you.

I didn't get the chance to go out and sketch people but found this image in the internet which got my eye, I sketched it trying to understand the anatomy behind the pose and then, work out the silhouette with Stu and finally pay attention to the shaded model.

Session 2

Here is my pose for this assignment, its basically someone at the phone.

And for the people that are not from animation mentor, let me tell you that its so confusing to see all the different students in the same class posting so many poses, its like having a feeling that I should be doing more. Well, the assignment only says, do one pose; which makes me feel ok but oh man! all that competition is crazy! Once you go into the forum and see how many active users and go through the number of threads they post, its exciting and it totally shows the "online campus" community size.

Its all for good!

Maya 7 license

Oh boy! Am I excited! I just got in the mail my Maya 7 student license, it feels so different to purchase the software, huh... if you know what I mean, I can't believe I got a brand new Maya box with all the manual's, CD's and an extra DVD with Ryan's making of from Chris Landreth.

Please buy your own Maya license so we can share some feelings!

First Class Video Lecture

The video shown this week is very well done, I'm really happy to see the mentors working on this videos for AM, the best part is that they have different examples to support what they say. Also is very pleasant to me, to see Charles Chaplin and Disney's work as part of their videos, it tells me AM is not into computer animation, but into the Illusion of life.

Bret Parker

Here she is!

Mentor

I was fortunate enough to get someone from Pixar, her name is Bret Parker. She is the one who animated the baby sitter in "The Incredibles". She looks so much like the baby sitter you wouldn't believe it. On our Q&A session, we asked her a couple of times to do the baby sitter's voice, she didn't want to! That was fun anyway!

AM starts

We had the animation mentor orientation video, and a Q&A session with Carlos Baena anb Bobby, these two guys have a lot of energy, they seem to be always doing something positive with their lives!.