Week 2 is over and I'm just waiting around for AM to put week 3's lecture up so I can get started. I'm a little worried this coming week, because I have to finish this shot. 200 frames is a lot of frames to connect and polish. It should be a crazy week. Anyway, this last week we learned about basic posing. I have always had a hard time with posing and this weeks lecture gave us some rules and guidelines to making stronger, more readible poses. There was a lot of really good info in this lecture.

This week's assignment was to take our planning thumbnails and block out the shot in Maya. It took me forever to finish. First I copied the poses from my thumbnails, then I tried to adjust them based on the rules that we learned this week. Finally I spent some time moving poses around on the timeline to see if I could improve the timing. I got a lot of good critiques from my fellow students and as a result, I ended up with many revisions. Below is the latest revision.

Tonight Victor will critique my blocking. I think it's awesome that he does the critique the same day that we turned it in. By doing that, he gives us the whole week to work on our shot. And I'm gonna need it. My previous mentor did our critiques on Tues night, so we had 2 less days to incorporate his comments and finish the shot.

Anyway, got to go. The new lecture should be up by now.