CAGD 493 Week 1 Reflection - Christopher Coombs
Welcome to my blog, everyone! My name is Christopher Coombs, and this is the very beginning of my weekly blogs for Senior Portfolio (CAGD 495). My specialization is animation, and this semester I really want to buckle in and dedicate more of my time to refining my animation skills. Unfortunately, I didn't animate as much over the summer as I wished I had, so I came into the semester quite rusty. The Advanced Production class's animation evaluation assignment from this week definitely shook most of that rust off, however. It was an extremely challenging and mentally taxing assignment, so I dedicated nearly all of my time and energy to it this week. Even so, I did set out some time to plan what I wanted to animate for this class. One thing that piqued my interest immensely was working on some quadrupedal rigs. At this point, I'm far too accustomed to animating humans, and I found a lot of interesting creature rigs online this week that could give me a new...