I haven't posted in ages mainly because I forgot and also because I didn't animate much, I worked on the same animtion over and over again for more than a month. Here are some updates from what happened since last time I posted:
In December I went to San Francisco for a week and managed to get a tour at ILM and DreamWorks PDI! Big thanks to Jean Denis Haas, Simon Otto and Javier Solsona for it! Both places are amazing and I had a great time there. During the tour with JD in ILM I found out about his Spungella Workshop, so as soon as I got back from holidays I joined. If anyone out there is interested in learning animation I highly recommend it.
So far I've worked on a character sitting down and I just finished it. It took me a long time to finish it but I'm really proud of the result:
Something that I learned with this animation is the importance of follow through. Everything overlaps and settles, nothing stops abruptly, a good place to add these follow throughs in the example of the sitting are the knees, hands, shoulders, head and spine. Mostly everything! Without those little movements the animation would look stiff and robotic, so always look for those parts were you can add it!
My next animtion will be a jump and I'll hope I can finish it in time before the workshop finishes. Here's a link to the workshop website:
http://spungellaonline.blogspot.com.ar/
Thanks for reading!
- Jero
