Howdy y'all!

Yes, that's right - I'm NOT dead! Nor am I undead or half living, or even mildly sick (although I did have a bit of a close encounter with swine flu...). Instead, I've been sampling the joys of real life and enjoying the precious time off we were given between classes two and three. And it was indeed good and delicious. But alas all such things must come to an end, and class three has now begun (which to be honest, I'm quite excited about anyway). This class I'll be under the tutelage of Mr Morgan Kelly, a Dreamworks veteran who's worked on just about everything since Shrek 2. Once again the classes have been shuffled around - lots of new faces to get to know. Feels like a friendly class so far though

Right, first order of business - I know I promised my class two reel, so here it is:

Next, this week's assignment. We had two options this term - either to make three animations on a seperate theme (like last class), or to pick one theme and try to make three animations that tie this theme together somehow. In the interests of trying something different, I chose this second approach, and chose a museum robbery. For the first time I've tried planning my first two shots in 2D using Blender's "Grease Pencil" feature:

I have to say it was a lot of fun - it really makes you respect the Disney masters even more, to do something like this. Grease Pencil took me a while to get used to - it's very useful, although I do have a few minor interface gripes that I'll probably end up trying to fix once AM's finished (mostly that it doesn't integrate with "Undo" very well). Anyway, let's round this post off with some sketchbook drawings for this week's assignment and a picture of Stu all made up for this class:

Have a great week!