How to fit your Animation Mentor around work / family time.
Overview
- Most of homework is done at night.
- Deadlines are at sunday noon.
- Homework starts sunday night.
- Watch your lectures, and take notes, get involved with Q&A, and get into the critique forms.
- Get Feedback Feedback Feedback.
- Check out the Rig Forms, to get tips and tricks on the rig you are working on.
- 3-4 hours a night, 6 nights a week, Try to get 25 hours a week.
- Learn to animate quickly. You only have a little amount of time.
On Sunday - Light
- Sunday night, when the kids are put to bed. Go check out your e-critiques from your mentor.
- Check the forms to see if there is any news
- Read through the Syllabus early on in the session, so you can have better planning ahead of your week.
- Watch a few classmate assignments, and leave some comments.
- Go to Bed
On Monday - brainstorm
- Monday night, the kids are in bed, time to start the assignment.
- Watch assignment video and video news, get into the forms to talk about the assignment.
- Once you get you assignment, use your monday night to start thinking about some ideas. Create an outline, draw some thumbnails, get poses. Get video camera to get as much references as you can. Analyze movement, draw thumbnail poses from movement break down poses.
- Have a good plan before bed.
- Watch e-critiques, and work on revisions.
- Do not rush your revisions, till you get your feedback from mentor.
- Go to Bed
- Morning do a quick check up on forms, see whats going on.
- Get to work, if you have time draw out some thumbnails, get your idea fleshed out.
- Get home at night when kids are at bed, check forms and look over e-critique if you have not got it yet.
- Go over thumbnails, ideas, reference. Get a good idea before opening maya at all.
- Open Maya, start blocking and work on golden pose, then out in a few breakdown poses.
- Go to bed
- Morning do a quick check up on your poses, write down some personal notes for improvement.
- Create video and upload to work space, to get more feedback.
- Watch TV spend time with Wife.
- 10 PM Apply feedback into your key poses and breakdown poses. Try to get one pass done.
- 11 PM Q&A night with Mentor. Write down notes and hang out with your class mates.
- Go to Bed
- Morning get into file and fix any obvious key / breakdown poses.
- Create video and upload to work space, to get more feedback.
- At night collect all the change, plan and block like crazy.
- By the end of the night put it in spline.
- Go to Bed
- Morning get into file and fix any obvious mistakes.
- Create video and upload to work space, to get more feedback.
- At night collect all the change, polish like crazy.
- Go to Bed
- 80% Family 20% Work
- Light polish then turn in homework by the end of the night.
- Submit Work if you have not done so already "EARLY"
- No Work - Get pumped for the next week
- Sunday night, when the kids are put to bed. Go check out your e-critiques from your mentor.
- Check the forms to see if there is any news
- Read through the Syllabus early on in the session, so you can have better planning ahead of your week.
- Watch a few classmate assignments, and leave some comments.
- Go to Bed
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