Welcome to the AAU Spring Semester of 2016
There are hidden instructions in this post to test if you read it entirely!
There are 2 deliberate typos too - cookie points for whoever finds them.
There are 2 deliberate typos too - cookie points for whoever finds them.
This is a persistent online site I use to allow students in my class to solicit and offer feedback on their animation. There are a few important notes;
1. This blog is as helpful as you make it. Be active with comments, post your work regularly and take advantage of this venue. Monitor this site at least once a week. I will use this as a forum to make general announcements and answer common questions, so you don't want to miss out. Any post from me will have "INSTRUCTOR POST - ..." in the title: make sure you read them carefully.
2. I use participation here as part of your class participation mark. Participation accounts for 20% of your total grade! If you're shy this is a great way to be involved in the classroom discussion. You get points for posting your work or for giving feedback on other people’s animation. Bonus question: ask me right now how to get 100% on your participation grade! Blargubargh
3. Title each post with your name, for example: “David Latour: Blocking Pass 1”. Your blogger ID may not be something I recognize. You don't want to miss out on participation marks when you post here.
4. Conduct yourself here as you would in the class. Play nice with others and be supportive and constructive with your comments. Limit the posting to information relevant to the class.
Even If you're new to blogging you'll find this a pretty painless and straightforward process. If you have something from class you'd like to show, use the following steps:
- Playblast your work (16:9 ratio, 960x540, convert to .mov, with H264 compression)
- Click the 'insert a video' button and browse to your movie file.
- Be sure to put your first name in the post title.
- You're done!
- continue reading to see how you can adjust your video size to fit nicely on the page.
- (additional instructions to share video from another site
- Post the movie file on any video streaming site (YouTube, Vimeo)
- Copy the “embed HTML” from the streaming site
- In blogger click "new post" on the upper right corner of the screen and click on the "edit HTML" tab on the top right of the new post and paste the code in the window. (You can edit the html so that the video size is 600 x 337, to fit nicely within the blog interface.)
5. Blogger works best with Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome. If you have technical issues: try switching your browser. Make sure you login with the Google ID that you were invited with or you won’t be able to post or comment.
6. Check out SyncSketch: a great tool for posting your work and getting feedback. We're going to make use of this handy website occasionally through the term.
Every time someone adds a new post or comments on an existing one, I get a direct email. I try to look in here regularly and offer critique and guidance as well. This blog will be available to you as space allows, which means you will be able to continue posting here after the end of term. (You may even see former students offering feedback here.)
6. Check out SyncSketch: a great tool for posting your work and getting feedback. We're going to make use of this handy website occasionally through the term.
Every time someone adds a new post or comments on an existing one, I get a direct email. I try to look in here regularly and offer critique and guidance as well. This blog will be available to you as space allows, which means you will be able to continue posting here after the end of term. (You may even see former students offering feedback here.)
Welcome to the blog and have a great time. SWhumWRG
*Your first assignment: Post your name in the comments of this welcome message with a sentence or two about what you hope to learn in this class.
*Your first assignment: Post your name in the comments of this welcome message with a sentence or two about what you hope to learn in this class.
13 comments:
Hello my name is Ryan Lee and I am a character animation major with a focus in 3D. I hope to iron out my skills and help give me a better workflow.
Lilian Yanez-Franco
Hope to learn a good workflow, better posing, and better my reel to get into P2
Hi I'm Anita, I'd love to learn how to animate two characters interacting with each other with constraining.
My name is Sui Ying Ng and I hope to learn how to achieve realistic animation as well as a smooth workflow.
Connor Swartwood.
I want to improve my animation ability, but I'm not sure what my primary area of focus should be for that. Last semester there was a focus on posing and counter movement and I didn't really know that's what I needed to work on then and I don't really know what I need to work on now.
My name is Skyler Loo. I hope to learn how to enhance and improve my animation skills to help me prepare for the professional industry of animation.
HI i'm Drake. I come there to learn every thing about animation.
Hi, my name is Teman Dudley and my major focus in 3D animation is animating and rigging. I aim to advance my rigging skills and in this class I want to keep up my animation skills as well. I want to polish up what I know about animating and learn skillsets that will make my animating ability faster, smoother, and career worthy.
Hi David. My name is Yiqing HE, I go by Dennis. I want to learn how to make better dynamic pose. and making a kongfu animation.
Hi I'm Maria. I hope to learn more about posing, workflow, etc. and get better at it since my animation classes haven't been very consistent.
Hello, my name is Ruoling. I hope everything is going well in this semester.
Hi everyone! I'm Allison, and I'm excited for this class and excited to learn new things and improve. I'm hoping to improve my workflow and really solidify the fundamentals so that I can focus more on acting and performance. I also hope to improve on the polishing stages and to get helpful feedback. I hope to improve my reel and and my skills as an animator.
Hello everyone, I'm Brandyn Fox. I aim to improve my acting choices, more appealing poses, and to get to a good IP stage more quickly and efficiently.
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