Character Space Exercises

We had to draw a simple "character" (provided by the exercise) rotating three times to work on our character consistency.



Then, we had to draw the character walking into and out of space.



(Added in blue pencil is the instructors critique)


Now that's criticism I can get behind!

Stick Tower assignment

Here's my stick tower:



The "/" down the middles were supposed to be more like this "\/," but I ran out of wooden dowels. But, it still held up a brick, which is more than I can say for my paper bridge and tower, both of which couldn't hold any weight at all.

Buuuut I still got a B- on the project. Don't know why. I thought if it held a brick you'd get an A, but apparently I was wrong.

Paper Bridge project

I'll start posting all the assignments I've already worked on so there's some semblance of an idea of where all this stuff is coming from. But, I don't think I'll be posting my animation assignments necessarily... not sure how to handle video yet. Anyway, here's the first thing I have chronological records of: the paper bridge.



It failed miserably. The half-circles in the middle (as I realized later) would have been better served as one large half-pipe with an opening at either end of the bridge. As the way it is, all the weight is being dumped out to the sides where there's no support. If I used the half-pipe instead, all the weight would've instead been relocated to where the bridge is supported at the ends, so whatever was in the in the middle would've held out.

Start

I've kept up with others' blogs chronicling their journey through a program so I figured it was high time I made one too. Right now I'm in the middle of my first semester at UCF's Visual Language program so there's still plenty of stuff left to write down.