Well I guess I slacked it at the end there in December when things didn't pan out the way I had hoped and planned them to. I ended up just barely 'not passing' my final AM class, hence me not ever posting the final animation. At that point I just stopped using Maya and animating altogether.
You could say I was a bit disconcerted and distraught at the turn of events, feeling that I was judged rather unfairly by my Mentor and even protesting with him as well as the school about him not passing me in class. For better or worse I didn't graduate either as a result and went into hibernation or LOA as it is called at the AM school.
I ended up buying a PS3 and immersed myself in my old habits of a whole lotta gaming and watching movies, skating more often and just generally taking a big ol' break from all things related to creating an animation (still watched abundantly though).
So now at the end of this month I'm going to start Class 6 once again and re-take it, hoping for a different Mentor of course, and am just now getting back into the swing of things. I am not going to use the same animation as I had prior for class, but a whole new idea that will show my other strengths and also using a different character rig that isn't as troublesome as the one I used prior.
I'll be posting my new idea storyboards soon enough (next week hopefully) as soon as I finalize the idea. For this short 30-second piece it is going to end up being a tiny part of something much bigger I'm planning on doing beyond class and possibly turning into a series or creating a whole back-story with it afterwards.
I don't have any new pics or vids to share really, so here's some doodles I have done at work during our meetings. Very spontaneous and odd, but here they are...
