Thursday was my last day of class. Turned in an updated demo reel, and a "Roboy" project the class as a whole was working on. Unfortunately it didn't get finished, but a few of us animators are going to continue work on it over the summer. I think in this class in particular, I've come a long way as an animator. Of course I still have tons to learn and much, much better to get... but I think I've improved more over the course of this last class than any of the previous once, since it was pretty much all my own work and not just tutorials or learning something followed by class assignments. Here's my current June 2013 reel:
Animation Reel - June 2013 from David Durston on Vimeo.
Quite an improvement, I'd say, over the last one just a few months ago:
Animation Reel - Spring 2013 from David Durston on Vimeo.
So now that's done and all the requirements for my AA in Animation are met. Just waiting for it now I suppose. I'll probably go back every now and then and take a class here and there, but in other fields that interest me like Motion Graphics and Compositing.
For now and over the summer... my first order of business is to finish up all the animations I need to do for this game Elyot I've been helping out with. Just yesterday for my first time I rigged some first-person arms and made the first sword animations for it. Once Elyot is done, I can happily go back to and start working on my own game projects again.
Of course, all the while I'm gonna still be trying to crank out new animations for my reel and otherwise as often as I can!
