week 012 ... term 1 is finished

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Unbelievable ... 3 months over, means my first term is finished. I've worked hard and all the shots, Stu (the Ball-head-character) - poses and some scribbles can be seen by watching my reel above. I just want to add that this school is fantastic and although i'm really looking forward for the next 2 weeks which are free i'm really curious about the next term. So thanks to all my class-mates and my incredible mentor Chris Chua! I also want to say special thanks to Sebastian Hofmann, a really gifted animation-supervisor and my first mentor at Animationsfabrik GmbH. You rock man! So have fun watching the reel and leave me unmercyful kind critiques and comments ;) ...

See you next year

Frank

week 011 ... in-depth look at hips

Wuah ... i'm so bad in updating but there we go ... last assignment week of term 1. My mentor Chris Chua didn't like my shot called "sad-walk" so i renamed it (look above). Actually i'm pretty happy with what i did and this is not so easy. So just have a look yourself and take care everybody!

Frank

"balance"-scribbles

Stu-pose "balance"

planning the polishing

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week 010 ... introducing to walks with character

"exhausted"-scribbles

Stu-pose "exhausted"


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week 009 ... exaggeration and weight

Topic this week: actually just polishing that walk. I can say i did some walks before but i never had such a hard time. The task was to animate a vanilla-walk. No cartoony stuff or personality should be shown. Just a normal (human like) walk. I thought "uh easy one" but i was wrong, that were actually the hardest 48 frames i've ever animated and i'm still not happy. But check yourself.

Frank

scribbles for "concerned"

final Stu-pose showing "concerned"

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week 008 ... introducing to walks

Bum fire finally walks!!! Just blocking, but things go harder quite quick. So Check out the movie and leave me critiques if you want.

Frank

Scribbles for "Strength"

final Stu-pose showing "Strength"

planning-scribble for blocking the walk

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week 007 ... arcs and path of action

Topic this week: arcs and path of action. We could decide between 2 different assignments and actually i didn't planned to do both but then i had a lucky shot with the one-leg jump and time after that to animate tailor else well. Have fun watching it!

Frank

planning-scribble

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week 006 ... overlapping action

Topic this week: Overlaps. I made it myself a bit hard and animated that damn pendulum so quick that i had no fun at the end and got my badest grade for that. But anyways it's not that bad to challenge yourself but just have a look.

planning-scribble


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week 005 ... anticipation and stretch & squash

A lot of work this week. Drawing poses showing "Devastation", Stu-pose of the strongest one and also an animation of a bouncing-ball trough a obstacle course. I worked quite hard on that so check it out and let me know if you like it too ;) ...

Cheers Frank

"Devastation"-poses

Stu-pose showing "devastated". I know he's very close to off-ballance but i tried to capture the very last dramatic moment before falling down and starting crying or something, so i had to put his right arm more backwards.

planing scribble for animation

"final" animation trough the obstacle course. just click on the image to watch the movie

week 004 ... intro to timing

Topic this week was to animate a heavy and a light ball. Nothing important more to say this week, except i made it a bit hard myself, but just have a look and feel free to comment that bouncing stuff! wish a great week everybody!

Cheers Frankenstein

The planing scribble

The "final" animation. just click on the image to play the movie.

week 003 ... planing and blocking methods

Oh boy what a bouncing-week ... So many homework, work at Animation-School and there were some bad teeths to medicate on friday. So i had to do it all quite quick. But overall i'm happy with my assignment for week 003 and i'm still quite ecxited. Animation-Mentor is best place i could ever imagine to learn animation the right way. So check it out and feel free to comment and critic the doodles and renders. Thank you very much!



Sketchbook 02 - Drawing human-like poses showing "excitement" ...



Sketchbook 03 - Stu-pose "excitement"



Sketchbook 01 - planing and thumpnailing the first bouncing-ball-animation (topic was to animate a basketball/soccer-ball, actually without S&S ... but i couldn't help it to use just a tiny squash)




My animation (just click on the image to open the movie) Teachers-critique at the end was to hold the ball after hitting the rim just for 1-2 frames longer in the air, and give each bounce i little bit more speed-up. But overall he was happy with it.

week 002 ... poses and 12 principles

As you can see .. My very first AM-assigment. I took it quite seriously and went out to public places (as my assigment told me). I'm quite sure all of you know how hard it is to catch the right pose of people just walking by. You have to be so quick but that's the point: it sharpens the eye. I know my decision is not the most strongest pose ever drawn, but it impressed me the most. Old man, every step carefully taken and so slow that he might need 10min for getting the train. Feel free to leave comments! thank you very much!



On Wednesday i had my second Q&A (question and answering) and i deliberatly clotheed myself with the best dress i have and boy that make-up took hours to suit me right ... but ... then the internet striked and our mentor Chris had big trouble finding a place where to talk to us. So ... i started crying and the whole mess ran over my face ... ;)

just kidding ...

week 001

First of all:

Animation-Mentor ROCKS!!!!!!!! Boy there's so much energy and power behind that program. It's like a roller coaster and i'm totaly freaked out and curious about the next loops. There's is absolutly no question about motivation `course almost all students are doin not just good, no, they are doin' great! So many damn good character-animations i've seen. Everybody i was talking to (especially my mentor Chris Chua) was absolutly helpful and open minded. So i had a great warm welcome! I'm allready addicted and i've decided to put all my other interests into a drawer for 18months except animation and acting. I bought me a book called "The technique of Acting" by Stella Adler and although i haven't finished it yet i got some great advices out of it. If anybody is interested i can tell more about it. Anyway ... for next week i got my first "real" assignment: "drawing poses" I'm sure that gonna be fun. So hear me sharping my pencils and better hide otherwise you gonna get captured!