my robot

We've come down to the end of Term 1 now. That means I'm a third of the way there! Our last assignment before our term 1 exam was to model the main character for our story. So here he is. The robot I've posted so many drawings of. He is in his early stages but already has a pretty nice range of emotions if I do say so myself. All in all I'm pretty happy with him, which is encouraging for my final film.
As I mentioned we also took an exam. It was an all day affair involving a written portion with multiple choice, true or false, and short answer sections. We also had a practical portion where we had to pick a toy out of a box (they were wrapped in paper bags so we couldn't see what we were getting) and then we had to block it out (a primitive, model of the item using simple shapes such as cubes, spheres and cylinders) and then animate it. Lucky me I drew a spider. That's eight legs to block out, and animate folks, plus did I mention I hate spiders? Anyway I completed the assignment. It wasn't too hard considering what was expected of us and the amount of time given. You can look at it here:

Spider Video

Hopefully that link will work. It is a ".CA" which is the Canadian version of ".com" but hopefully that won't interfere with anything.

After a short break we return for term 2. Which means lots more animation assignments and further refinements of our stories. I'm pretty excited about the whole thing now that things are coming together. I should have more to post pretty soon...

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