I had

three classes today and got home after midnight last night. Today was painting, sculpting and then my digital matte painting class. So um...really tired. I was learning a bit about layout on Friday and I have to say, a lot of the approach in animation seems really foreign to me. I think that in animation, a lot of the focus is shot to shot (as that is inherently how they work in terms of process) whereas in live action, the story is told from movement to movement (ie persistence of v!sion is more inherent). I haven't heard the phrase 'm!se en scene' used once..which kind of scares me as someone with a movie background LOL. Even the POV shots, for the most part, are static (cut to blah blah) when people talk about it, wherease more and more in cinema POV shots are moving constantly. My teacher said that people tend to, when learning, rely on the characters to show an action in a storyboard. So if a child is scared in her room alone, they will show her hunched over her bedsheets, whereas the smarter way to do it would be to show the shadows from her room that look menacing. See, that's one difference right there. Someone from l!ve action would NEVER rely on character to show the scene, because THEY for the most part DON'T HAVE CONTROL OVER THE ACTOR! So they tend to use the camera and the 'mise en scene' to tell the story. But hey...I'm ready and willing to learn some stuff. Here is a progress of my sculpt from yesterday and two renders from today.