George Ambartsoumian - PARKOUR REFERENCE

Hello everyone!

I've been spending some time gathering some reference for the parkour assignment and thought I could share the reference that I put together with you guys..... ENJOY


-George Ambartsoumian

INSTRUCTOR POST - Welcome New Students.

Welcome to the AAU Spring Semester of 2014

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. 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.

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 how to get 100% on your participation grade.

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. 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.

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, 640x360, convert to .mov, with H264 compression)

·         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.

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.

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.

*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.

Some real good dance moves! - Crystal Godat

Sax from Dean Heezen on Vimeo.

I came across this the other day and I thought this would be nice to share for the upcoming semester for future Character 3 class. Its 2D, but I still think the some great stuff to take away from watching it especially for those of you guys who might be doing the dance assignment! ;)

It's All About History: An Animator's Poem

If I believe,

Even for an minute possibility

That this gets easier,

I haven't been challenging myself enough 

To get it right.

Dig through the cosmetic delirium of 

one's virtual space and

you'll find the blatant habits,

Brown paper bags full of empty 

instant coffee containers

cardboard pizza boxes,

and fermented snot globules

from the constraint of our

perpetual indulgence,

stress.

Sleeplessness isn't the disease,

procrastination is a virus 

spread by others,

gratefulness eludes constructive criticism

While dreams crack into rough edges,

Planes,

and vertices.

When the virtual space is switched to

reality space, 

Middle click drag not getting you anywhere,

Space bar don't give you new views,

Can't scale up your devices,

No spinning around and driving forward your advisement,

A fatal error isn't the end of existence. 

Remember what David says,

Help prevent RSI sir,

Unplug to restart, 

And try again.

LoFlo_Final_Koko Roll!

lee wulc

anything helps.

Jessie Manuel

Paranoid cat freaking out over nothing.

Note: The last frame is really weird. It doesn't show up when I play it on Quicktime and VLC but it shows up after I upload it on Youtube.