Pick list 3 is working me! But it’s been fun trying to methods in my workflow. Dry-erase has been saving me so much time.
Here’s a first blocking pass…
And next week’s assignment… blocking plus pass, just finished. Added some more poses. Really wanted to sell the weight, so I pushed to the frame limit of 250.
Splines coming up for next week, hopefully it’ll look okay.
Eish… the things that keep me going.
And a staff meeting coming up in the morning… Pandas…
“Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first and we lose both first and second things” (C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock)
I’m going to put this into practice. Good night…
I should document this better. Haven’t really thought much about blogging, especially in the midst of ministry… and I guess all the Linsanity that’s been buzzing these past couple weeks. But I’ll keep posting when I can about relevant stuff.
Gonna go a little back in time here… My last post was on the walk-cycle, which turned out ok! Did I drop out though? I tell you, no. In fact, there’s more!
Class 1 Progress Reel!
Last assignment was to do a personality walk, so I came up with something sneaky. Polished up a few shots like the pendulum and the first few ball bounces. You’d never even notice.
Then I went Cambodia and had one of the greatest experiences of my life serving the Lord and sharing his love with the people there… I wish I could go back. Ended up missing Week 1 of Class 2, but it was worth it. Got caught up anyway. Here’s a progressive iteration of my first shot:
I kind of cringe looking at those early playblasts. The heck is going on there? I guess this is showing that I’m actually learning something. 
Last week I just finished my second shot in which we were given Stewie with no arms, our first character with a spine and a head, here’s a quick iteration of playblasts, haven’t rendered anything yet:
Now I’m on my last shot of the term. Time goes by fast! There’s a lot of challenges in this assignment, specifically selling the weight, strength, and force of a character. No more inhibitions as AM gave us the Stewie rig with ARMS! Oh man, that’s a whole other monster. IK or FK? Eish. Here’s some shot planning.
There’s some video reference I shot too, but I’ll save you the satisfaction of laughing at goofy videos of me doing stupid things.
The more I learn about this stuff, the more it’s actually starting to spill out into real life. All this body language and line of action stuff is forcing me to notice a lot more when people are tired, uncomfortable, or whatever, just based on their body language. I see lines of action everywhere going through people, their posture, how they interact with each other. It’s really fascinating how much you can get from just a few lines.
Well, there’s a million other things to do than to talk about school, and there many more people to be thinking about.
Our DT text today was on Luke 12:22-34, with the most poignant of them was v.34:
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Must keep remembering that this is just a passion, and not the passion of my life.
Cheers.
My staff lead, Richard, gave me a book to read while I spend time at home during Christmas called, The Tears of my Soul, to help prepare my heart before I head off to Cambodia for the winter mission trip. It’s the first-person account of Sokreaksa Himm, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge killing fields. I spent the afternoon reading it today and just couldn’t stop reading. It was tough at times to continue because of the graphic nature of what happened to Reaksa and his family (13 of his family members killed, only he and his sister survived), but it was an amazing read, especially for the soul. Reading through what he had to do to survive, and then overcoming his post-traumatic stress disorder, and finding rest in God to face his past really illuminated Psalm 23 for me (Which the author also quotes in the book).
1 The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.
I’m still awestruck during this Christmas season by the fact that God came to this world as a peasant child, died a criminal, and in between experienced so much pain, suffering, loneliness, anger, and much more. People around the world can find rest in a God who experienced suffering like we have. For Reaksa, he was able to forgive the very people who murdered his family, just as Christ forgave us for our sins that put him on the cross. More and more it’s clear that gospel really is the only hope for this broken world. I hope this can really stick with my heart as the trip to Cambodia comes in a little over a week.
Almost. Jin & Yumi’s class of 2011 boys.
Ah, memories.
Cheers.
I’m just short-handing each week now… Too busy, too busy.
Finished the walk. Looks pretty vanilla to me.
Couple sketchs for the pose that had to express concern and the pose I ended up choosing…
These posts are getting shorter, ha ha.
Here’s a block for the vanilla walk assignment.
I’m so scared of knees now.
And that’s the pose for the week, Stu demonstrating some strength.
Thankful that these past couple weeks haven’t been as busy… got to do some revisions and whatnot. Glad I also had enough time to express thanks to different people in my life. Good deal.
Ye.
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