I’m back from winter break, the longest break I get in my year here at The DAVE School. It was great to see family and friends but now it’s time to get back to work.
I’m almost done with the first week already and have learned quite a bit in animation. We have had three mini-assignments and one larger. That makes four assignments and the weekly quiz (every Friday). Even though we have had so many assignments I don’t feel as stressed as I did in Block One. Now maybe this is because I’m used to the work schedule, but I really think it’s just that animation, as of now, seems to be a little easier then modeling.
I’ve always had things like this come to me pretty easy, modeling, animation, computers etc., ever since I was little so I’m lucky in that way but it also gives me the chance to help my classmates which only enforces what I’m learning. Anyways.
This is 3D animation, but a lot of the things we are learning are based on 2D animation. The reason I’m telling you is because the first few projects look simple but in reality they are quiet difficult. We had to do, (1) The Ball Bounce, make a ball bounce and have a squash and stretch effect (2) The Bounce Room, make two balls bounce into a room with the physics that they might have in real life (3) Logo Animation, Animate a logo in a conservative perspective (slow and easy on the eyes) and finally (4) Story, Tell a story using only a cube, sphere, and cone. These objects cannot be textured (have to be a single color) and can only be squashed and stretched.
Below I have the animations that I made, along with a rendered animation that I made for the Ball Bounce. Speaking of that, when we hand these projects in we are actually handing in something called a playblast and without going into detail it’s basically a very simple, rough video of the animation, where as something like the rendered out Ball Bounce I have is high in detail, lighting and texturing. These playblast take seconds where as a higher detailed animation would take upwards of hours.
Ball Bounce
Playblast - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8iJSVnUM7KIWWlQcnpoS3lyeDQ/edit
Render - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8iJSVnUM7KIR2N1QkZQNzRhc2c/edit
Bounce Room - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8iJSVnUM7KISmVlRlNyRzVpdjA/edit
DAVE School Logo - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8iJSVnUM7KIcks4Qkk0LWxZNEk/edit
Story - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8iJSVnUM7KIYl9kWTRNczBwcXM/edit
Playblast - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8iJSVnUM7KIWWlQcnpoS3lyeDQ/edit
Render - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8iJSVnUM7KIR2N1QkZQNzRhc2c/edit
Bounce Room - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8iJSVnUM7KISmVlRlNyRzVpdjA/edit
DAVE School Logo - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8iJSVnUM7KIcks4Qkk0LWxZNEk/edit
Story - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8iJSVnUM7KIYl9kWTRNczBwcXM/edit
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