Have you taken iA before, Camaro?  I see you were in AM for a bit (saw the ball bounce on your blog).

Let me see if I understand how this all works. Every week, you get your 1 hour lecture from your mentor, but you have access to all the other mentors lectures as well, since they are recorded? And I think that's what you are talking about for the QnA? Do you have access to other peoples reviews as well? Also, I dunno if it's the same for feature, but Games, our lectures are only an hour. How much are they able to teach in that amount of time? I thought the lectures were for them to show how they animate. But it seems impossible for them to do the assignments in an hour? Im sooo curious about this. And SOOOOO excited. I know it will all be amazing, and they know exactly what they are doing. I', just a curious bee.

I know they are making 2 new rigs for the games division. I wonder if those are ONLY for the games guys, or if feature will steal them too. lol. I feel they`ll be better suited for the games guys though.

Do you have any pre-iA stuff you could show me, and post-iA stuff?

I guess it all comes down to your understanding of animation, as well as how much time you put into it. I just saw one guys reel that I wasn't impressed with, but I know each person will be different. I think my understanding of the movements and everything is good, but I just don't have the training to create the movement. I don't know how people achieve the insanely fluid motions.

If you`re on msn, I'd love to chat. SLipsius at the g mails.

Ah, I think games is a little different then. On our May 7th schedule, the games section tells you the times for "lecture" and "review" where the feature section tells you the times for "Q&A" and "Review". Sounds like it will be different. And I would hope so. Jason Ryan is a fantastic animator and teacher, but if he doesn't animate for games, I don't want him teaching me. No offense to him in any way. But that's the whole draw to this, right? Taught by professionals who are in the industry doing what they are teaching? Game animation has different techniques and standards than feature. So I would hope our main lessons are coming from a game animator.

Too bad feature gets our rigs. hehe. I want exclusivity! muahaha!

All I can say about the games section so far, is that it was not designed for people on the east coast. All the lectures are either at noon on weekdays, or midnight. Which, noon works for those who don't have fulltime jobs. Luckily I can still do it at work, on my lunch hour. Ill just start late if the lectures go late. The late night reviews will be tiring, but Im fully ready to give it everything I've got!

"Guess it is a bit different than feature." - Yes it is.... we got  a lot of  assignments for you guys. So be ready!


Ric

I'm guessing it's Richard Arroyo. I think Richard Lico goes by "Lico", but I don't think he is on these forums just yet.

Same instructor, Adam, but you appear to be in group 2. Though, there aren't different times posted for group 1 and 2 like on the Feature schedule, so who knows? The lectures will probably be the same for both groups, just different review times.

Either way... wooot! Good choice switching to Games 1! We can push each other.

I have heard that games mostly have mocap  datas...so are the classes going to be  a mix of mocap and key framing or any one of these alone....just curious to know how the gaming industry works...

It's all keyframe animation being dealt with in the workshops. But mo-cap clean up might be exposed too, but I don't know. For our last weekly demo of the block (this Friday) with Jason, he's going to be doing an interview with Ric Arroyo and David Hubert, the two guys who are heading up that portion of the program. It'll be recorded so maybe portions can be posted on the site.

Yes, they are still animators. I've done some of it. It can be fun if you`re involved with the actual capture of it all and what not. But I much prefer key framing it all.

Larry_g1s wrote:

It's all keyframe animation being dealt with in the workshops. But mo-cap clean up might be exposed too, but I don't know. For our last weekly demo of the block (this Friday) with Jason, he's going to be doing an interview with Ric Arroyo and David Hubert, the two guys who are heading up that portion of the program. It'll be recorded so maybe portions can be posted on the site.

if you guys have some questions about the game workshop, you can ask during fridays demo or send us an email. hope to see you guys there.  we might ~  make some cool announcements

Ric

Fridays demo? How do people not already in a workshop attend? I havent got my login yet

Just watched the QnA about this course. Oh man. I am so excited. Definitely some very awesome (and mean) teasers! I want to see the rigs!!!! I'm in a small game studio right now, but some of the stuff they were talking about, I haven't even heard of! Can't wait to learn all the technical stuff!

The full 2 hour QnA is up!

Direct Link

coolbird22 wrote:

Uhh... it wont embed ... ouch !

It's being update and out soon.

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