I've done some animation! Thank goodness. I also got a bit of modelling done that I plan to finish the coming week. Let's peek a gander.
While I'm happy that I was actually able to get some animation done this week, I'm starting to see cracks in how I'm going about this. For one, the exercises are more intended for those who already have a firm grasp of the animation techniques. This is something I believe is not the case for myself. I tend to walk away from these exercises without much new found information. This is getting me a little bit nervous, as I recently applied for a post-graduate course and I need to send over a showreel. I have a decent amount of stuff from last year, but I haven't gotten back the type of work I was making. I've heard good things from a friend that's in another post-graduate course with the same people, and he said that he has learnt a lot within the time he's been there. I'm just worried that I won't be accepted in the first place to be able to learn more. I think I might try and follow along with actual lessons in animation rather than exercises for people who already know them. I'm hopeful that I will get in, but there is that nagging feeling in the back of my head. I am definitely trying my best to get that out, but it's a slow process.
Up next is the model that I've been working on!
Obviously, this is for the Bzzzt art contest that's on here. This has been a very fun model to work on! For the time being, I've been modelling with the intent of just keeping it in the one place. That's why it's got it's feet spread out like that. The hands have been a real challenge. I'm trying to go with something that's between what's shown on the reference material. The shader that I'm using is a toon shader that I'm sure I've posted a link before. If not, I'll post it in here later. Something that's really annoying me with my laptop is how inaccurate the colours look on the screen. They seem very washed out compared to the screenshots on my PC. It won't be a problem until I actually have to publish something, so I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
This isn't really a long blog post. Apologies! To be completely honest, it isn't too much to showcase this week (and also it's a bit late in Australia right now haha). Hopefully if I find some decent tutorials for animation I'll have more to show in the coming week.
Thank you and good-bye for today!