This is it. The last official assignment for this week. My last file upload. My last Q&A with my teacher (Mentor) and as an individual class. Next week it's a global meeting, meaning everyone in the same class level.
So this past Q&A we went through our progress begining from week one. I noticed a major improvement, starting with that basic bouncing ball. Damn it seemed so hard for me at the time, now its like a walk in the park. Im taking this step by step, kind of like when I trained for cross country, do a lil warm up, Run one mile at a time and focus on my pacing for each mile. Then when the real t hing came , I'd place all the techniques I learn and go for my fastest time.
Progress is slow when you dont know what you are doing. Even though I've managed to create some simple animations I'm still a long way from calling myself an animator. Anyhow I was going through other peoples assignments and I decided to start working out some body mechanics stuff. My first observation was to look for that bouncing ball center (hips). Our mentors have been telling us for the past 11 weeks to focus on the principles and the rest comes on its on, (something like that) so even after this quarter is over I'm going back to the bouncing ball to figure out timing issues and trying to get the slow in/out in motion. Do those who have been animating for a long time ever go back to the bouncing ball? I have no idea.


Anyhow I still haven't found a new place to call home. Hopefully I find something during the break.

- Ed