Back from VFS!

I spent the last week in the Vancouver Film School Summer Intensive course on Animation and Visual Effects. It was very interesting to be in the same environment regular students live on, which was precisely the main goal of this course. To me, the most interesting class was perhaps the life drawing class in which we made several drawing and at the end the whole group drawn a collaborative animation of the model in a Matrix like turn around. But all the classes where interesting, we made a couple of classical animation exercises (an athletic flour bag and a walk cycle), a couple of very basic exercises in Maya (path animation and texturing of a still life scene), and a bit of history of animation, in which we watched some very interesting shorts. While the course we had similar privileges than regular students, like 24/7 access to computers laboratories to finish our assignments.

I would prefer that the 3D computer animation and modeling classes were more advanced, but the level of the group was irregular and we simply had not enough time.

I also had the opportunity to meet some friends like Steve and Mark Kaufmann and Ed and other Vancouverites (see pictures here).