My Ball Bounce Animation

Character lifting things

Well, here are the characters i have done thus far for the lifting heavy things assignment. I don't think that i am 100% happy with them yet so i think I might do a few more tomarow if i have time. Hope you like them Linda :)

Gestures from observation

Here are a few more that i did today, already a little better.

MAYA Project #1

For my project i chose to do an Escher inspired castle like area i guess. It took me a while to come up with the general idea of what i was going to make for this assignment. Once i decided on a castle-like structure, i just started and went with it. The end product looks to me like a mesh of a basic Escher drawing and part of a gaming area of some kind. One major thing that went wrong while making this scene was my poly' count! Apparently a few of my bricks got copied a few hundred times and my poly' count went up exponentially and the system was lagging seriously.

More sketching...

This page is just a few sketches of body positions and gestures; im not to happy with it. I definately need more practice!!

A few sketches of body positions and gestures

These are some sketches i did from the movies "Gladiator", and "Snatch." I hurt my ankle this weekend and was not able to really get out and about to sketch people in real life much, so i opted for movies while i rested my foot.
Even though it has been a while since i have sketched anything, i've always had trouble drawing faces well, it's pretty frustrating!

Sketch: Ball Bounce

This is the second ball bounce sketch i did, i feel this one had a little more character than the first one i did. I kept it basic because i am still a beginer at Maya. I may alter it if i start learning how to make it better while creating it with Maya.

Quote from "Sketchbook"

If there is a line that sums up this whole reading, i believe that this is it:

"Sketching is to an artist what shadow boxing is to a boxer, keyboard practice is to a concert pianist, practice is to a tennis player, or a participant in any sport (or endeavor)."

I havent sketched in years, not since early in high school from what i can recall. Its going to be hard getting back into it, but i do want to improve my skills, so i have to make it a habbit. I took the advice from this reading and now when i watch movies on my television, i sketch what i see. So far its kinda fun, a little frustrating, but fun.