homework, Class 8

Just a quick heads up for next week's assignment. We're going to do one more 1 week exercise. For this one I've imposed a lot of limitations, which will hopefully free you up to be really creative within those bounds.

• 115 frame limit
• character must start and end on the X's. You can change pose and orientation of the first pose.
• fixed camera
• Topic: Robot ball goes through the door
• The rig is pretty simple, but you can start playing with it at any time and familiarize yourself with it. It has a separate camera for the facial controls, which you can have some fun with. (i usually tear that window off to make a floating UI)
• it's on the download section of the online area, or you can grab it from here

After this assignment, we'll work on 2 assignments for the remaining time in the semester. One 3 week assignment, and one 4 week assignment.

The reason I'm having you do one more exercise is because I felt like the weight pieces still have a long way to go and you guys could use a little more work on body mechanics, especially when transitioning from something static to active.

Also, as it's midterms, I'd like you all to do the following

• Assemble a progress reel of your work so far this term, as a quicktime, compressed h.264 and email to coopanimate@gmail.com

Thanks...I tried to copy the files over to review the other day but stopped after 1.5gb for the first 5 students in the class.