So after finally watching the fight webinar brought by animation mentor, that was previously delayed because they had technical issues and had to replay it on a different day i was working. I watched it recently after its been cut up and edited and released on their website (still got lots of good stuff though).
So over all i think it was really good, although it was a little bit different from what i expected, i was expecting it more to be about one set action sequence and him talking you through all the major keys and breakdowns the the animation. Instead it was a good range of technical tips and tricks like how a character should hold a weapon and just how people and creatures throw around their body when fighting.
Found it very interesting that he said about the differences of how people and creatures fight. creatures are born with fight or flight and know exactly how pretty much from birth, but humans have to learn (from martial arts) and many martial arts are based on animal movements. But i find that very interesting and it gives me more of an idea of what i want to do, perhaps to steer away from the amazing Martial artist and go more towards some one who can't fight but pushed into a corner where he has to...but still badly. All just ideas for now, but certainly going to start drawing poses out for a possible show reel piece.
The animal fights also look very very cool. But I think i'l give that more of a go after iv done the creature animation with AM.
Showing posts with label Master class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Master class. Show all posts
Sunday, 23 October 2011
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Animation Master class
So today my theory lecture was canceled and instead we had a master class in animation. Which i was more then happy about.
The master class was done by Benn Garnish, someone who had previously come to Hertfordshire uni quite a few years ago and has been working at framestore for a while now. Hes worked on various things such as harry potter, Chronicles of Narnia, and marmaduke, much like our VFX lecturer who i believe worked closely with him when they were at framestore.
The master class was great he told us about the mistake he made at uni and that he actually decided to change career paths from lighting TD to creature animator AFTER he finished at Hertfordshire Uni. He got his first few jobs being a very junior animator on the TV show prime evil. And went through shot by shot what he did and what he could have done better. Its great to see that hes always seeing how he can improve even when he is already in the industry for a long time.
He went through plenty of shots from different films just explaining how working in a studio goes. with dailies and how you communicate with other animators who are collaborating in one scene. Also how many animators were in the scene and what they worked on, and how much time he took to do a specific shot. Some of it was quite eye opening as he worked very heavily on one shot but you couldn't see much of the animation in the end anyway.
Im really happy to see we are getting more of these master classes this year and industry professionals in and looking forward to seeing who we have next as last year we had Framestore guys Crytek and Sony.
The master class was done by Benn Garnish, someone who had previously come to Hertfordshire uni quite a few years ago and has been working at framestore for a while now. Hes worked on various things such as harry potter, Chronicles of Narnia, and marmaduke, much like our VFX lecturer who i believe worked closely with him when they were at framestore.
The master class was great he told us about the mistake he made at uni and that he actually decided to change career paths from lighting TD to creature animator AFTER he finished at Hertfordshire Uni. He got his first few jobs being a very junior animator on the TV show prime evil. And went through shot by shot what he did and what he could have done better. Its great to see that hes always seeing how he can improve even when he is already in the industry for a long time.
He went through plenty of shots from different films just explaining how working in a studio goes. with dailies and how you communicate with other animators who are collaborating in one scene. Also how many animators were in the scene and what they worked on, and how much time he took to do a specific shot. Some of it was quite eye opening as he worked very heavily on one shot but you couldn't see much of the animation in the end anyway.
Im really happy to see we are getting more of these master classes this year and industry professionals in and looking forward to seeing who we have next as last year we had Framestore guys Crytek and Sony.
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