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The Art of Tegan Jephcott: July 2012
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Sunday, 29 July 2012. Class 5 Week 5 - Walkthrough: Advanced Dialogue Part 2. Again with Victor Navone, yay! This was getting towards polish, he started talking about offsetting keys. I don't like to offset keys, and if you're going to do it, only do it when the animation is LOCKED down and you're not likely to have to reanimate a part of it. Otherwise hilarity will ensue ;). Then more polishing, adding what is needed to make it work. Here's my hand in for the week. Unfortunately this week I had technica...
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The Art of Tegan Jephcott: Class 5 - Week 2 - Storytelling Through Cuts
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Sunday, 8 July 2012. Class 5 - Week 2 - Storytelling Through Cuts. This week we got a big lecture from a film guy named Partrick Kriwanek. What he named it was "Editing 101" which held all the basics we needed to know, to make good cuts between shots and appropriate camera framing. Very informative - as the assignment this week was to plan and create the rough layout for our scene. Kenny picked the dialogue line I reeeeeally wanted to animate - Freddie and Hess! I did a whole load of planning. I've since...
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The Art of Tegan Jephcott: Class 5 Week 6 - Mechanics and Acting
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Sunday, 5 August 2012. Class 5 Week 6 - Mechanics and Acting. With Pixar's Brett Parker! She walked through her process of animating a shot from Ratatouille, focusing a lot on getting convincing body mechanics into an acting shot. It was essentially a workflow walkthrough lecture, but also it was hosted with some students from AM so there were questions she answered there and then too. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Animation Tips and Tricks. Check Out the New Blog Reference Animation Tips and Tricks.
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The Art of Tegan Jephcott: Class 5 - Week 10 - Studio Level Subtext & Subtlety
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Sunday, 2 September 2012. Class 5 - Week 10 - Studio Level Subtext and Subtlety. This time with Matthew Munn, walking us through one of his shots from Surf's Up - just after Cody discovers who Big Z is, and he's trying to play it cool. Subtext is not an afterthought! Can't stop animating now, gotta get Freddie ready for polish! 7 September 2012 at 23:43. Very touching bit of dialogue. Animation is looking sweeet as well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Animation Tips and Tricks. My Blog has moved.
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The Art of Tegan Jephcott: April 2012
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Monday, 23 April 2012. Class 4 - Week 4 - Secondary Action. A lecture full of secondary action! Jason Schliefer was brilliant - also, really should watch some of The Dick Van Dyke Show. Many interesting things to see. Don't worry about feeling like an idiot, people already think you're an idiot anyways, when you meet them for the first time and they're like what do you do anyway and you're like I'm. an animator and they're like oh, so, you, um, what do you do, do you do that computer thing? Hopefully my ...
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The Art of Tegan Jephcott: Class 5 - Week 3 - Multi-Character Shots
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Sunday, 15 July 2012. Class 5 - Week 3 - Multi-Character Shots. This weeks lecture was about staging a multi-character shot - how to direct focus and pull the eye where it needs to be, to convey the main point of the shot, without there being too much for the audience to be distracted by. Essentially, how to make each character alive without over animating the characters and drawing attention away from what needs to be focussed on. That is what we have done. Oh, and our character designs.
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The Art of Tegan Jephcott: Class 5 - Week 8 - Hand Poses
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Sunday, 19 August 2012. Class 5 - Week 8 - Hand Poses. So guess what this week was about? Hand poses with Charles Alleneck of ILM. This was about the importance of good hand poses in a scene. They're almost as important as the eyes - got a clumsy hand pose, could ruin your shot. Got bad eye shapes, ruin your shot. Hands have personality! And I am queen of claw hands. I don't think I have properly addressed my hand poses yet. They're very basic. Not good, huh? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Art of Tegan Jephcott: September 2012
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Saturday, 15 September 2012. Class 5 - Week 12 - Review - AND PROGRESS REEL! Class 5 is through! And what a class. It's been tough, but I'm so glad to have had Kenny Roy as my mentor. He really pushed us to realise our workflows and consider them fully, and I think it has been invaluable. Not to mention the knowledge he has in regards to acting as well. I know the weakest part of my workflow is in the polishing stage, but luckily, that's what class 6 is about! For now, here is my progress reel. I got a l...
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The Art of Tegan Jephcott: March 2012
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Friday, 23 March 2012. Class 3 - Week 12 - Review of Advanced Body Mechanics. Here's my progress reel! I put my animjam shots the right way round (so from first to last). We're told to put our newest work first, but then it's backwards ;). Got a weekend off, then onwards, to class 4 and acting! Sunday, 18 March 2012. Class 3 - Week 11 - Design Applied to Animation. Also, had to refine my shot some more. It's the last assessed week on animation for this guy! Monday, 12 March 2012. Basically it was a more ...
