AM class 1 - mentor Bill Diaz

This is a selection of my assignments from the first class of Animation Mentor, where we focused on getting our twelve principles rock solid before moving on to body mechanics in the next class... Though the semester ends with a bipedal character walk, it's mostly bouncing ball exercises and that is decidedly a good thing. It takes the simplicity of a bouncing ball to make you realize why your spacing isn't working, where the energy in the movement is going, how to show weight... It's all there.

Play class1.mov (890 KB) (Quicktime).

software used: Softimage XSI 4 and Plastic Animation Paper 3