alexiss dawn

Time is definitely speeding by. Last week we had to block out the 2/3 of our film. It still has some rough patches but it’s getting closer.

A good portion of my time last week was spent away from the computer — sketching, planning, and trying to visualize exactly what I wanted and how each motion was going to work. That last shot of the four took the most time. I took a whole different approach of how he flies back to the pole with some suggestions from my mentor. It’s been fun though to work on something that pushes those poses since I’ve always stayed more contained. I’ve worked to break the rig a bit to really smash his face and just throw him around. But like I said in my last post, it’s been so much quicker for me to spend most of my time away from the computer for this first blocking pass, really getting to a point that I can visualize exactly what I want. Then it’s pretty quick to get it into Maya.

This last week finally brought some specific video reference. There had been a lot of chatter among some AMer friends and they even started voting in our forums if I should do it or not. So, I finally did it — I stuck my tongue to a frozen pole. Oy vey. More than anything it was for a few laughs. Would I jump off a building for reference? Well, probably not. But no hurt in this…or at least not too much.

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