A) If you have not paid for your animation paper yet, be sure to bring your money for paper on Tuesday!
1) Finish your ball bouncing animation! Get your timing and spacing solidified, have everything laid out on your timeline and finalized in Toon Boom, so we can export and review as a class on Tuesday!
2) Read pages 84 - 163 of the Animator's Survival Kit. This section covers:
- Different types of walk cycles.
- Methods for creating walk cycles, from 4 cycled frames to 32.
- Adding personality to your walk cycle.
- Procedures and principles for manipulating your character's limbs and skeletal structure.
- Contact positions, up positions, down positions, and how all of these things are used together in your cycle.
- How different passing positions (breakdown frames) can change the style and personality of your walk.
- The double bounce.
- Walking in perspective!
- Notes on limb movement, the difference between "common" male and female walks, and methods for spicing up your walks.
2a) Pages 64-82 are optional, (mainly because we thoroughly discussed these pages in class), but feel free to read them if you need any additional info on charting for your animations, or other workflow practices.
3) Also! On the DM200 server, are two tutorial videos I made for you. Watching these two videos will help answer any questions you may have over the weekend.
- The first is a refresher of importing and vectorizing your work in Toon Boom, called "importing_and_vectorizing_demo.m4v" (13:14)
- PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE MATERIAL @8:00. It will help you work much faster in the future!
- The second is for those of you who worked much smaller on your animation paper, called "resizing_your_animation.m4v" (6:38)
4) Remember to complete your hour of life drawing this weekend! We will start class by sharing what we worked on over the weekend, and what we learned from what we drew.
5) I mentioned creating your blog on Thursday. Message me if anyone has any questions concerning producing one. As we are working towards professionalism, use your platform of choice (blogger, wordpress, tumblr, etc.) for creating it, and email me the link at mshaw@mca.edu so we can keep in touch with everyone's work!
6) Enjoy your labor day weekend! Remember to email me if anyone has any questions!
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(REMINDER) Steps for Logging onto the server.
1) Click on desktop and hit "COMMAND + K," or in the menu at the top of the screen, GO -----> CONNECT TO SERVER.
2) Type in afp://dali in the server address box that comes up.
1) Click on desktop and hit "COMMAND + K," or in the menu at the top of the screen, GO -----> CONNECT TO SERVER.
2) Type in afp://dali in the server address box that comes up.
3) Hit Connect, then type in your username and password.
4) Click "classes" then look for the DM200 server. Double Click it to open it.
5) The tutorials will always be in the folder called VIDEO_TUTORIALS!
5) The tutorials will always be in the folder called VIDEO_TUTORIALS!
