Animation 166.2

So it's Animation 166 again. Technically, ARTDM 166-Animation. Since I'm repeating the 166 class, I've added the .2 to my drawing above. I always start a new sketchbook with a comic book/magazine-type cover since I love logos. The 166 group of advanced students have a different plan than the beginning students but, since I've already taken that, I've asked the instructor if I could customize my game plan for this semester. One student had done that last semester and there are two of us doing this for the Spring semester. But, with the extra freedom, there is the temptation to not push and get much done. So I've set up some goals for this semester.

My goal is to give my presentation for THE TIME MACHINE another pass and refine it. I don't want to turn it into a victory lap or a rehash so I've got some different things to add to make it interesting. Here's the plan:

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT:
I did much of this already last semester but many of the secondary characters were not fully developed. So I'll be working on developing them.

CHARACTER TURNS:
I'll assume that the instructor will have the advance students work on some character turns again. I already did that with my primary characters so I plan to do some new ones with the developing secondary ones. I might also go back to one of the primary ones and refine it. One of the knocks, rightfully so, on the turns last semester were the stiff poses. So I might try a new more interesting (and less symmetrical) pose and, literally, give that a whirl. I think I want to add more angles/frames to smooth out the turn. And then maybe some color too.

STORY BIBLE:
The instructor will be having the advance students work on their Story Bible throughout the semester. I banged out mine last December and may just make a few tweaks here and there. But, for the most part, I'll just be adding to it and not doing too much. That extra time will be spent in the next two areas.

ANIMATION:
I didn't even get close to finishing my final animation last semester. Part of me is already sick of looking at it. But I should get back to it.

BACKGROUNDS:
This is the new development for me. Since I probably don't have that burning desire to animate but do to illustrate, I want to try working on some background illustrations. Part of these will help for the final animation above if I get that far and also add to the Story Bible. But I also want to learn to paint digitally in Photoshop. So I'm armed with a new book on Digital painting as my text book and a Bamboo tablet I've yet to crack open in over a year so this will be that new thing to keep me interested.

And that's the plan. Beat Boards and Story Boards are all done. Quite a bit of work has been done on this project. So the plan is to give it another pass and improve it. I'll need to be focused though. Not just for the discipline with the extra freedom but because I have some goals away from the class that I need to get to make make progress with and the class could easily be a distraction from those things.