Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Mookie's Emprove Speech on animation

Just a regular work day. A few people came into our room wanting to see the life of an animator. How we work and what are some cool stuff we can show them.
At the time I was very tired, from staying up so late working on a Short Video for Nima, and I did not have any work on my computer at that time. It would tken me a while to dig up a random file to present to the folks.

Mookie volunteered to give a 10 min speech of animation.
  • He already had a Animation up on his screen that he used to his advantage.
  • He talked about the Simple basic of aniamtion.
  • Create a pose - Place a key frame - and check out your animation by pressing play
  • He showed the simple tools on what he is doing, then get them involved with animation.
  • What would you like to do? I will place the Key.
  • Once you have them feel like they animated.
  • Talk about the process on what it takes to get it into game.
  • Make animation -> work with programmer -> review it ingame
  • Now for show and tell show a file that is nicely structured W/ a RENDER
  • Get them involved
  • Talk about character and some of its challenges
  • Then show a rendered animation
  • If you still have time, pick up a light saber and talk about reference and research
Mookie also gave recognition to alot of people who worked on the project, and just let the guest know what they do.

Thanks Mookie for giving me some guidance on how to "Talk about animation at my desk"
  • Talk about what you know
  • Get them involved, by having them ask questions
  • Make them laugh -> This comes natural when you are comfortable