Hi,
About two months ago started taking 3d animation and visual effects classes at the HKU (Art Academy Utrecht). In this 4 year course i will be trained to become a professional 3d animator. If I have never found anim8or I might have never found this great passion of mine: Thanks steve!
The work I'm making at the HKU I would like to share with the anim8or community in this topic. I will try to upload a much as possible (as long there are people interested...).
The intake
Ofcourse they won't let everyone in this 3d animation class. I first had to do some tests and show my earlier work.
We had to create a character and make it. My character was named dolf and was made out of clay:
(http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6800/dolf.th.jpg) (http://img689.imageshack.us/i/dolf.jpg/)
Also we had to design and make, using only primitives, the word 'vorm' which means 'shape' in dutch:
(http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8959/dsc03087002.th.jpg) (http://img410.imageshack.us/i/dsc03087002.jpg/)
And some more assignments....
Well they liked my work, so they let my in!
Design classes
For my design classes we where completely free to make whatever we wanted to. I made a short commercial-like animation in 3ds max about recycling:
Clay modelling classes
We had to design and make a character with clay. I made a stork carrying a little baby on his back. The final clay model was about 50 cm width, 40cm heigh and weighed over 20 kilos.
(http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/636/foto0213.th.jpg) (http://img692.imageshack.us/i/foto0213.jpg/)
Animation classes
Together with all my other classmates (17 in total) we had to pick a song and divide it in pieces of equal length. Everyone then got a piece of 12 secondz, which they had to use to make an animation about food.
When everyone was done, the pieces when edited together to form the total song again:
http://www.
(my piece is from 0:58-1:10)
Photoshop classes
For Photoshop we had to find a picture of an object and use this picture to make 20 compositions. I picked a picture of a AK-47:
(http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5751/composition016.th.jpg) (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/composition016.jpg/)
(http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/7981/composition013.th.jpg) (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/composition013.jpg/)
(http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4721/composition007.th.jpg) (http://img26.imageshack.us/i/composition007.jpg/)
Maya classes
As 3d package we are learning Maya, a very advanced 3d animation software. For our first assignment, to learn modeling, texturing and rendering in maya, we had to make a room.
I made a kind of hotel suite:
(http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2532/final002.th.jpg) (http://img689.imageshack.us/i/final002.jpg/)
(http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5727/final001.th.jpg) (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/final001.jpg/)
(http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/381/final003f.th.jpg) (http://img197.imageshack.us/i/final003f.jpg/)
There is so much more to upload, but I only wanted to show the final results and not bother you all with every drawing.
When the second period, which I just started, is over will make a new topic.
-floyd