Class 3 | David Nilsson - Aspiring Character Animator

Progress Reel from Class 3

October 11 2011, 01:13

So, Class 3 ("Advanced Body Mechanics") at Animation Mentor has come to an end and I'd like to thank my mentor Steve Cunningham for a totally awesome class. I've learned so much during this class, and I really can't wait to move on to class 4 ("Introduction to Acting"). Here's my progress reel from Class 3:

As you may have noticed, I haven't been very good at posting regular updates here on the blog as things are quite busy but I'll try to get better .

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Class 3 – Assignment 3

October 11 2011, 01:07

Here is my last assignment for class 3 ("Advanced Body Mechanics"). In this shot, I animated a fisherman who gets stuck in something, he pulls heavy until the bobber comes loose and then he notices that he pulled someone's skirt off and runs away.

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Class 3 – Assignment 1

October 11 2011, 00:57

Here's my first assignment for Class 3, "Advanced Body Mechanics". My mentor for this class is Steve Cunningham at DreamWorks animation and he's awesome. In this class, the focus is once again on body mechanics, so we're trying to animate advanced body actions (walks/runs/change of direction/jumps/falls/reaching/throwing/pushing or pulling/from sitting to standing position etc.). In this first shot, I animated a waiter that gets scared by a mouse and runs and jumps up onto a chair.