Week 9 (Week 21)

In this session, we had Pixar animator, and apparently the voice of the babysitter in The Incredibles (I'll have to check that out) Bret Parker (thanks Bret!). She went through the differences in how forces can affect the timing and spacing of a shot. Also, how timing and spacing changes as it goes from a more cartoony to realistic form of animation. She went through some of her awesome shots from Wall-E (probably my favorite Pixar film) and showed how internal and external forces influenced the timing and spacing of the shot.

For the combustible Stewie shot, I took the time to re-block the shot since we had 2 more weeks to work on it (rather than the usual 3 total weeks). The overall starting pose was changed and the head scratch was taken out. I played around with the timing a little more to make it snappier and added a few more breakdowns to it.