Animation Mentor - Class 3 Week 6

Class 3 has been so much fun. We are being introduced to acting! My mentor is Tim Allen and he is amazing. He has more than 27 years of experience and has worked on tons of animated features including Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Pocahontas and Home on the Range.

He has been great at getting me to work on my spacing in my animation as will be evident in this first shot I did. We had to do a shot that had an emotion change in it... happy to sad, mad to embarrassed, etc. But we had to do it using the character Stewie, which has no facial expressions. So the emotion has to be evident from the body posture and the acting choices.

Here is the reference I took for the animation I decided to do:
Bee Reference

Here is the planning I did for it:
Bee Planning

This is my:
Blocking
Blocking Plus
Polishing

And the final:


This was a great learning experience... and I loved getting into the polishing at the end and seeing the animation just come alive as I did all the polishing updates.

Let me know what you guys think of this one.

Kenny