Term 2! Week 1 - Full Body Walks Part I

Relatively easy start to the term. My mentor this term is Mathew Rees, currently a lead animator of sorts at Aardman Animation (Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Creature Comforts) in the UK. Nice fellow! Seems very personable and genuinely focused on the needs of his students and our work (even offering to poke around our Maya files if need be). So I'm looking forward to his mentoring over the next 12 weeks.

New term means a selection of new rigs we get to work with, much more detailed and complex than the previous term. For the first few weeks we'll be animating with Stella! She has lots of controls, but I appreciate how easy it is to get a really nice line of action/silhouette with her. She's just so sleek. Assignment for this week is to familiarize with her and pose her out in a couple of dynamic poses.

We also learnt a lot about the body mechanics of human and quadruped walks. More on that later!