Homework for Wednesday and Midterm Grading Checklist:

For Wednesday:

• Revise your walk cycles! Put any final touches you would like to have to it to add both life and craftsmanship to your animation. 
• Please place any final improvements or life drawing samples I've asked you to do on the server. 
• Bring to class an idea for your walk cycle with personality. 
• Remember to add a "stamp" to your performance, where your character takes a moment to think, change direction, or does something else before he continues to walk!
• With your idea, bring a sample reference you have filmed yourself, using your phone, camera, or something else.  Practicing your reference at home will better inform what we do in class that day!
• Make notes of important parts of your character's figure. How does the character walk? What primitive 3-D shapes make up the different parts of your character? Where is the line of action? What joints are being stressed? Where are the major points of tension in the character's posing

This week, we are creating our first big performance: A walk with emotion!  To prepare for this, you have begun on an in-class exercise where a character picks up an object and interacts with it!  This will help you produce everything we create from this class, forward.

For midterms, I will be looking at all of the assignments you have produced thus far, and providing full feedback for each! In the MIDETERMS folder: please place on the server one movie file of the following assignments, and one folder of your drawings labeled as such:

1. Your ball bounce project (lastname_p1)
2. Your shape emotion project (lastname_p2)
3. Your research project (lastname_p3)
4. Your walk cycle (lastname_p4)
5. A folder with your figure drawings and caricatures in it, including the ones I asked you to produce (lastname_sk1)
6. In addition, bring your walk cycle project drawings to class so I can look at them along with your work!

Midterm is moved up a week from where it has been in the previous years. Because of this, remember that we have all of this week and next week before fall break. The review I give you during midterm will help give you the necessary tools to accomplish everything you need to do the next two weeks!