Today I started to learn how to rig a character (add joints and controllers to make it move right so it is animatable) It is the biggest headache ever but I got through it despite it being early on Monday morning. The result you can see above is a scary snowman crudely modelled and animated but animated none the less.

here is my first attempt at character modelling in cinema 4D. the body looks a bit weird because it crosses into itself which sucks but ill have another go soon

pixellation

Today we learned about and made a short movie using pixellation, which annoyingly has little to do with pixels. It is basically stop motion with real people. Here is our movie, Im the one riding the chair victorious at the end.

Here is the design I am supposed to be using but It may be a headache trying to model this in 3D with no previous experience, maybe I should start really simple!... the illustrator drawing is not completely finished, still getting to grips with this software too.

shady characters

These are some initial designs for the 3D model I am going to build, Drawn using dip pen and ink which I started drawing with recently and would recommend. Its cheap and really nice to use.

impossible people

The last week I had no lessons so apart from a couple of tasks I was free to practice my own things. At the moment I am dedicated to practicing drawing the human form, male and female, in all manner of different poses. I am taking instruction from a great book by Andrew Loomis. The book is quite academic and in depth which is good as my aim is to be able to draw aesthetically pleasing people. First i learned the proportions in head sizes, then a basic mannequin, then the difference between a male and female body and now I am going to attempt to learn much of the human anatomy starting from the skeleton and then the muscles and how they attach.
  Here are some weak first attempts, I will improve!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the rough mannequin and a couple of quick poses