Sydney's team is a trollolololol team. The sort that on paper doesn't seem that bad - but get into battle and you'll realise her scrappy team has all sorts of moves that are (for want of a better word) annoying.
Think Swagger. Minimise. Double Team. Curse. Destiny Bond. Toxic. Spore. Sydney uses them all with a grin on her face matched by her long-term partner Pokémon, Mightyena.
When she's not battling or training her team, Sydney can be found helping Nurse Joy to rehabilitate abandoned and injured Pokémon.
After a couple months' break, we're good and rested and ready to move onto the main event. For the next 12 weeks, I'll be taking the AN01 - Animation Basics course for AnimationMentor's Character Animation Program. We're already finished with week one, so here's what I've accomplished so far!
The first part of the assignment for week 1 was animating 3 cars demonstrating the animation principle of Fast In, Fast Out, Ease In, Ease Out -- basically a timing exercise. Alright, simple enough.
Neat.
After that, we worked on another character posing exercise like back in Week 4 of the Maya workshop. Part of this assignment was filling a sketchbook page with many different poses to choose from. Once again, @jookpubstock comes to the rescue! (Seriously, this site is SUCH a valuable tool. Fantastic, I love it!)
So here's what I came up with for sketches--
--and here's how the 3D pose turned out!
(I love this guy. Super fun rig to pose with.)
Seems like the next few weeks are going to have a lot of these posing assignments with different expression themes, so I'm really looking forward to that! That's it for last week's work. Onto the next project! ~
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The reference photograph I used for my pose is (once again) from the amazing @jookpubstock. Check out their huge gallery of reference photos here!
When I was looking up clothing for my Minoan neon babes, I ran across a fun and probably-inaccurate reconstruction of a Mycenaean woman with this makeup on her face (the statue it’s based on is probably a goddess. Did regular people wear it? who knows. People have certainly worn weirder makeup…) Anyway, the neon babe of the day is a Mycenaean princess who talks to birds.
“There was once an Irish Man who sailed in search of better fortune, with naught but a light to accompany him across the seas.
But this story isn’t about him (well, sort of, in the weird ways of clinging resonances and contracts signed long ago) but instead his many great great greats granddaughter, and her dog, the Grim of Leith Walk.”
Meet Dearbhail, my changeling OC, and her dog, Bluebell! She’s only four days awakened and she’s already signed a fey contract (oops).