This week AM put up a video made by the uber-talented Rebecca Perez-Dominguez that detailed her workflow for one of our assignments. I decided to try to use some of her very, very good ideas while advancing my current project.

Her method included drawing all of the main storytelling poses out on paper. Although the final animation will be CG, the paper is super fast for thumbnailing out a pose. Here’s the paper version:
Week 09 Sketches

Next step: Put these sketches into maya with Jason Schleifer’s amazing grease pencil tool. With this I’m able to get the timing somewhat nailed down, and it goes much more quickly than posing the character.

2D Grease-Pencil Blocking.

Once I’m happy with that, it’s time to put in the model and pose him.

3D Blocking.

And it’s as easy as that! Next week I’ll be taking this to a smoothed version, so comments and crits are welcome, as always.