Term 2 - Class 12 [ END of Class TWO ]

After All the Fun,Sleep Less night and Having Fun on Google Hangout.. haha.. Term Two is Finally Over!!  It was an Awesome learning experience with Jon Collins. 
This Week I also Got A few Notes from My Mentor abt on wht Areas He thinks I should work more on to  Improve Myself...

Areas of strength: Anuj was an awesome presence in class this year! He was an all around great student, in both his animation work and his involvement in our weekly Q n A's. He was consistantly one of the few students to actually bring questions to ask every week. Animation wise, i really like the stylized approach Anuj has to his animation. His posing is very strong, and he really looked to push the contrast in his timing and spacing. His planning for each assignment was above and beyond the base requirements, with really nicely executed thumbnails, and sometimes even 2 D animations to flcuh out his idea. His blocking was always very clear and concise, and the level of work completion for each step of the animation process was always nice and refined, culminating in nicely polished animation.

Areas of improvement: The things Anuj did well this term far exceed the number of things he really needs to focus on improving, but here are a few specific things to try and refine. Squash and stretch - At times, Anuj went a little overboard with how often and how much he was stretching limbs. Remember Anuj, we want to feel squash and stretch, not see it. This is especially evident in his work when watching IK legs that slowly continue to grow for 6 plus frames after locking out. Moving holds - Really look to increase the naturalistic feeling of your moving holds so the character doesn't freeze or robotically continue moving when in a moving hold. Also, be conscienscous of how you are easing into and out of all your poses Anuj, at times there were hard hits and sudden starts to your moves. Overlap - Although there were definitely times when you used overlap, look for instances to loosen up your torso transitions a bit more by increasing the amount of overlap you layer in as you move up from the root. Polish - Although your level of polish is already really good for class 2 Anuj, you're good enough to start really plotting and nailing every single little detail and arc, so start using that arc tracker as much as possible!      

This week the Lecture was a Review of all the Lecture we had Till now.. its Like a Short Version of all the Lecture we had in this Term...It was  Very helpful.. To review at once again before We move on to the Next Level of Animation.. :P lol..

For this weeks Assignment.. We had to Compile all our assignments Till now and Make Our Progress Reel...