After making some planning drawings Monday after our power went out for the fourth time in 2 weeks, I decided last night to lay out some planning and blocking in maya for my Tailor exercise.  I am excited about this one, because it is our first “official” character in AM.  If you’re wondering who Tailor is, she is our little squirrel-like friend with the tail, get it, Tail – or.  Oh, the people at AM are so creative and funny.  Well to explain my idea a little, I am having Tailor try to jump across the gap between two limbs.  She finally makes it over to the right limb and it flings her back over to where she began, to start all over again.  Below is my planning and blocking in maya that I did last night.

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Well, week 6 came to an end Sunday. I am now over half-way through my first course at AM. It is so wonderful attending this school! I have an update to the assignment I worked on last week – the pendulum. I’ll tell you what, these assignments all take up more time and end up being more difficult than I originally expect. Anyway, I’m pretty pleased with what resulted from this week’s constant animation work. I have included the quicktime and flash movies below.[flv width="450" height="360"]/wordpress/wp-content/fgallery/animation-mentor-works/PendulumFinal.flv[/flv] [quicktime width="450" height="375"]wordpress/wp-content/fgallery/animation-mentor-works/PendulumFinal.mov[/quicktime]

Here is a quick update on the blocking I’ve uploaded. I changed the timing a little and added some breakdowns.

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