Class 2: Week 1 - Clairty in Blocking

Class 2 - Psychology of Body Mechanics

My mentor for class 2 is Scott lemmer who has worked on such animations as Bolt, Ice Age 3 and Rio - should be a great mentor to learn from :)

We have started the term by picking from a list of actions to create a scene from. I have chosen to animate a character taking a 'big step to the side'. While this is perhaps the most simple action from the list of possibilities, I chose this because I want to really nail mechanics then move onto something more complicated in the following assignments.

The assingment for the week is to plan out our shot entirely - poses, timing, ideas and record reference footage to work from: My video reference and planned shot are shown in the video below:

and sketchbook notes and poses are shown here:

See you next week :D