Week 103 assignment revision

Here is my revision of third assignment

Week 102 assignment revision

Here is my revision of second assignment

Cool animation

I've found some really cool animations.

• http://www.simonscat.com/films.html
• http://birdboxstudio.com/
  

Very funny, and very well made...

Week 103 assignment

Hey, I've just uploaded my third assignment.

It was rather big:

1. Planning of a bouncing ball
2. Bouncing ball
3. Sketches of excitement
4. STU pose of excitement

First animation at AM from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Fighting with QuickTime

Hey to all. Today I've made my first steps into animation... I mean I've made my first animation assignment - it's just a bouncing ball.

It took me some time and I still have to polish it a bit, but in general it's almost done.

After finishing the assignment I was trying to do this Video Standartization procedure, which is a must for uploading assignments to AnimationMentor. This means, that I have to put some logo after the animaion and make it proper size, and this should be done in QuickTime Pro. But I'm on a Snow Leopard mac, and QT Pro should be installed there out of the box. But I've found that it was not... but it should...

So I was looking for some ways to install QT Pro, but I've found that I can't do that...

So after some time I've found a way out. Here it is...

QuickTime Pro should play QTVR videos (panoramas like in Google Street view) so I've downloaded some qtvr from the web and tried to open it... My mac said that to do that he needed an upgrade - I said OK - and after some time it downloaded, installed and run QT Pro...

WOW!! Great!! Now I have all I need!!

Second assignment Stu pose

Here is my Stu pose:

Second assignment

Here is my second assignment. In this assignment we should go to some public place and use a sketchbook to draw some poses of people.

And after that we should pose Stu in the pose, we like.

Here is what I did using sketchbook:

Experiments

Right now I've decided to get familiar with Stu.

Stu is the first rig we get at AnimationMentor. It's a human like character without face - just arms, legs, body, and head.

Well I'd say it's one of the best rigs I've ever used. All controls are working just fine - they do what the got to do... And there is nothing unnecessary in the rig. I really liked working with it.

Well I tried to do some pose... Don't judge me hard - I'm a beginner, and it's my first atempt...

Installing maya

I had some issues, while installinf maya...

AnimationMentor gives us a link to student version of maya - it's almost the same as the normal one - the only difference is that you have this mesage all the time, which says that it's a student version and you can't make profit using this version...

But when I installed it on my computer it showed Error 20. I don't know what it is..

I searched the internet for solution and found some but none of them helped. So I contacted maya student care... After some time they changed something in my profile on autodesk web site. But what they did ... didn't help eather.

After that I was talking in our Skype group with West and he gave me the solution!!

I've created new account on my computer, where I've changed the system language to English and, guess what it all worked... !!! Now I have a quiet place to work - a fresh account without any skype, Icq ....

And it's great, isn't it?