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About Me Deviant Artist Member Brad Weaver25/Male/Canada Groups group avatar #GonkAmination2011
It's actually 2012 Recent Activity
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My life has begun! Done school and got a job!

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  • Mood: Psychotic
  • Listening to: Sound waves
  • Reading: For spelling errors
  • Watching: Oxygen particles float around
  • Playing: Count the Nitrogen atoms in the air
  • Eating: Donuts. So many donuts!
  • Drinking: Dihydrogenmonoxide
So it's finally over. I just had my grad show for my animation program. I've been at that course for 3 years, but at the college for 6. Now that I'm done, and I have a job starting up on Monday, it's a little surreal to actually, truly be done! For all who want to see what it all lead too, here is my 3rd year final film, [link] And then my demo reel [link] . I will be also updating my blog more frequently [link]
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Brad Weaver
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I like creating things. I'm also lazy. So less things are created than initially desired. Better something than nothing.

Current Residence: Minto Navaho Houses, Nepean, Ontario
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Favourite genre of music: Video game-soundtrack-y-final battle songs
Favourite photographer: The ones that stole souls with their cameras back in the 1850s
Favourite style of art: Any hybrid of Anime and something else.
Operating System: Windows XP(ex-VISTA), AMD Athlon FX 6000 with NVidia 8800 GTS
MP3 player of choice: Sandisk Sansa Something with Video and 8Gs
Shell of choice: Big Shell... from MGS2
Wallpaper of choice: Whatever new pic I've drawn that looks cool.
Skin of choice: Skin is obselete. Being a liquid being is better!
Favourite cartoon character: Unleaded
Personal Quote: "The shading never looks good, until you add highlights."
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*Seku May 8, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Hey dude, I saw your demo stuff at the school and w're all very impressed, you guys had the best stuff out of 3d since ever. I actually cant wait to start 3d this year, any advice? How are the teachers?
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~TheNamelessTailled May 9, 2012
It wasn't officially confirmed, by the time I left, who was going to teach you guys, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be Stephen Young. There is a tool in Maya that is a double edged sword - the graph editor. Steve hates it and will barely teach you it. He wants you to go in and move every key and inbetween by hand. This is great for setting up keys, breakdowns, overshoots, etc. But you got to go in and play with the graph editor once you're done with those, so everything smooths out. Otherwise, if you're not careful, your animation moves like bad claymation. We had a different teachers in 2nd year and they loved the graph editor. You got to find a balance, because if you use the graph editor too much, your animation looks floaty or like it's underwater.
Then there's Andrei. He's smart and knows what he's talking about, he's just hard to understand sometimes and he puts you to sleep with his voice. Just get him to help you one on one, because you'll probably miss stuff when he's lecturing, but if he repeats himself one on one you learn it much faster and he even tells you tricks that for some reason he doesn't teach the whole class.
Both teachers, pay attention and work hard and they'll like you. It's why I got high 80's when I might have only deserved low 80's.

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*Seku May 9, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
any tutorials you recommend for the graph editor or should I just play with it to see how it goes?
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~TheNamelessTailled May 9, 2012
I don't know of any tutorials. You're going to be taught the bouncing ball again I think in Maya, just try doing it in the graph editor. You see both it's pros and cons with just that. You can see how it easily does nice slow in and slow outs, but as far as getting fast, snappy and appealing timing, you have to go in, make your graph editor look really ugly for a moment, so you can get an appealing bounce.

Another good thing to experiment with the power of the graph editor is in walk/run cycles. Because it allows you to edit multiple keys at once, something Stephen's by-hand method cannot do. Go in and find all the up or down walk keys on the root controller, select them all and shift them up and down. You can fine tune and experiment with timing easily.

Just stick with what Stephen teaches for the first few assignments, we might have made him more accepting of the graph editor and he might teach it for more than one class. Just be careful, it's a very thin line between amateur and pro with that tool.

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~Louie-Holliday Apr 7, 2012
Happy birthday!!:cake::party::airborne:
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~AaronThomason Apr 7, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Happy Birthday :iconcakeplz:

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~Same-side Jan 8, 2012   Writer
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Welcome to the group! :la: Glad to have you.

Be sure to get familiar with the way we operate in About Us.

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~Nagem1891 Nov 13, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Your stuff is really good!! I have a stupid question though.....do you by chance know/knew someone by the name of Tim Anderson??

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~TheNamelessTailled Nov 14, 2011
Well thanks for the comments and stuff! And yeah, Tim and I were good buddies in High School. I saw him once or twice at Algonquin, but we didn't hang out. You family?

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~Nagem1891 Nov 14, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
I'm his little sister :) You sounded familiar and I asked my brother if he knew you before.

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~TheNamelessTailled Nov 14, 2011
Cool stuff! Well I'm 3rd year animation, and I've done it all before. Ask me if ever need any help or advice.

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~Louie-Holliday Apr 7, 2011
Happy Birthday!!:cake::party::airborne:
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~TheNamelessTailled Apr 8, 2011
aw thanks!

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Mood: Cheerful ~AaronThomason Apr 7, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
Happy Birthday :party:
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~TheNamelessTailled Apr 7, 2011
Hey thanks a lot! I feel special now!

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