John W. Vanderbeck

So yesterday marked the beginnig of Block 2, Character Modeling and Animation. To be honest this is the course that really scares me more than anything else in the curriculum. Characters, and other organics, just seem to hard to model. Hardware stuff like buildings, I can break down into itty bitty pieces no problem whatsoever. Sure theres often a lot of those pieces, but those individual pieces are easy to model. When I look at say a Human though, I just can’t do that. Its got pieces, sure; arms, legs, head, etc, but each of those pieces is so complex and flowing it all blows my mind.

Our instructor, Chris, seems like a decent guy. He got us off to a rolling start yesterday. So rolling that I think I fell out of my chair halfway there :) By the end of our first day we had modelled most of a cartoonish head. Well he did. I got something that looks like a badly shaped piece of fruit with scary eyes and a goofy mouth. Yeesh this is hard!