WEEKEND 3

So Week three of the grind I'm still continuing to polish my animation. The second half of the shot what a great notes from last week, a few changes but for the better! It seems to be funnier and I've also looked at the shot as a whole. Some one or few notes I got were basic things such as hitting walls, pops, and eye shapes. The weekend has been a focused concentration of splining and body mechanics. A big challenge that kept coming up in my mind was to keep my characters stylized throughout the shot, physics and weight come up as I'm timing each pose. But I'm often thinking about the way the characters would feel in this world. My animation is slightly more exaggerated and am cranking the toony part of it up just a notch. I'm also taking into account the peak of interest within the shot. One of Malcon Pierces first notes he shared with me was the overall beat of the shot, where are the most important beats and where are the supporting beats leading up to the peak. Almost if you would draw a stockmarket graph over the acting. Where are the main points of interest? This has helped my approach to working on shots since I have taken his class. The anischool student work demo just dropped the other day and I have been watching it many times over. I was floored by a lot of amazing shots that this school has been producing and quite frankly it's probably one of the better school reels I've seen in a while. The other online schools reels haven't impressed me that much and I feel that the quality is lacking, I've heard from many students, that classes lack time for questions and critiques, instructors are not as enthused or motivating, feedback is difficult outside of class, and forums and feeds for critiques are quiet and abandoned. Whatever the case, I'll simply say what every higher up always crams down your throat, " The work speaks for itself ". And right now Anischool is intercepting the ball. As far as the characters, the shots, the acting, it's all adding up and looking great! Just gives me more motivation to keep pressing on with my shot to make it the best I can. It's always great to have motivation throughout the day. Besides the movies, music, podcasts with artist. Demo work will do the trick.

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