It took me about a day to calm down after Ed’s brilliant master class. It was one of those overwhelming experiences that make you feel so hyped! There was so much to take in. Sitting there was definitely some sort of an adrenalin moment according to one of the things we learned.
Although there are still various things that need to be fixed with my animation I will have to leave it at that for the time being. There are other projects aligned so I have to get started.
Just wanted to say thanks for everyone who shared their thoughts with me about this exercise. It was fun working on it.
Attending the Ed Hooks master class was an amazing experience. It was like watching an iron chef preparing his most famous dish.
His passion about his craft is so captivating, it makes you feel mesmerised. The breakdown of the acting component in animation was fascinating, inspiring and very “flavoursome”. It’s one of those dishes that leaves you with the most incredible after taste.
The “recipe” consisted of some important acting principles followed by examples from various films such as Chaplin’s “Gold Rush”, Miazaki’s “Spirited Away” and many more. He showed us some brilliant demonstrations of power centres and explained what they are. I had to do a walk cycle of someone his power centre is in his groin (which was pretty funny!). We spent a little bit of time discussing the face and the seven emotions humans do. Then later, he showed us some of Paul Ekman’s work as a reference. Last but not least he did some scene deconstruction based on one of the books he wrote.
Overall I can honestly say his “dish” was very well made. It had a secret ingredient called love. You could really sense that he is so into what he does by the way he pays attention to detail. It was a unique experience which I highly recommend everyone to do if the opportunity may arise.
In this pass, I looked into energy and appeal. There were few inconsistencies that weren’t working for me quite right. Some of the gestures were a little bit off time and sluggish or others were little bit too fast and different to the realistic style I had at the beginning of the animation.
As a result I changed few poses and tweaked the timing once again to push it a little bit more. There are still few things I’d like to fix but I suppose I will have to put it on hold until after the master class this coming weekend.
Couple of days ago a friend of mine introduced me Stumble Upon. It’s a plugin you install into firefox and it chooses random websites based on your interests.
I came across this wicked pop art tutorial in photoshop and here is the result.
Hi there
I am Avner, welcome to my online animation workbook.
