Weekly Count for 12/23 -12/29

Hours with week:54

Goal: 380 hours of out 10,000

Move Forward.

Spline Progress on short film

Some work Dec 27, 2013

Weekly Count for 12/16-12/22

Hours with week:64

Goal: 326 hours of out 10,000

Learning new lessons. 

Move Forward.

Pose Practice (15-20 mins)

                                               Some work recorded on Dec 22,2013

Weekly Count for 12/9 - 12/15

Hours with week:39

Goal: 262 hours of out 10,000

     Sorry for no update last week, my hours and work were so bad it would be an embarrassment to post it here. Seriously. Still struggling with  getting to another level. I know I said this before but....I really do feel like I am making some progress, at least mentally. Hopefully soon the results will  show....

Walk Cyle

Still a work in progress, some friends of mine gave me some good notes that I will do in the coming days.

Weekly Count for 11/25 - 12/1

Hours with week:50

Goal: 223 hours of out 10,000

     Better than last week. I accidentally deleted Monday and Tuesdays hours, but I'm estimating those days in my hours for the week. 

     I also have a walk cycle I'm working on, will show that next week.

 Quick dynamic posing study 

Time taken: about 30mins

                      

 

More spline work.

Weekly Count for 11/18 - 11/24

Not good.

Hours with week:28

Goal: 173 hours of out 10,000

Spline up until after shot of girl swinging on rope. Much more spline work to do.

Weekly Count for week of 11/11 - 11-17

Hours with week: 36

Goal: 145 hours of out 10,000

Slow week, the little work I'm showing speaks to that. Tying to be optimistic here, so I'll say I may have made some mental breakthroughs. The results of this hypothesis will be unveiled upon my next update.

Having fun studying hands

Weekly Count Monday Nov. 11

Hours this Week: 29
Goal: 9,921 out of 10,000

 This was a terrible terrible week. My love for work need to increase before I can make any serious progress. Among some other challenges, increasing the pure love for what I do to another level is high on my list of things to do.


Some work for animation class I'm working on.  



 

Weekly Count, Sunday Nov .3 2013

Hours worked today: 12 Hours 
Goal: 9,950 out of 10,000

Short film blocking almost done and a quick 1 hour 30min speed anim. I'm going to make this a WIP.

                    
                                                      Time Taken: 1 hr 30min

Friday Nov.1 2013

Hours worked today: 5:21

This is part of the last scene of my short film, still a WIP. Also working on a bit of rendering for my short film presentation.

Need to push myself.

Breakthrough

I have been really inspired by Jake Bullocks 10,000 hours work post here:

http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9633

Methinks I will start my own 10,000 hours work posting. I am starting the 10,000 Hour clock this week. Today is Wednesday, and so far I have around 14 hours of the 10,000 hours.

Becoming a better Artist

 I an humbled every day I strive to reach greatness. I realize wanting something is not enough, when you reach the point where your willing to break down and cry, punch a wall, or quit, from the frustration of desire beaten by failure you will understand my current status. I set a standard for myself, which everyday I fail to achieve, and maybe I will never achieve it. Being slapped by failure everyday has shown me one thing, that life is not about how many times you fail, its about how many times you pick yourself back up and keep going. That's it. I used to become very angry or sad when I would wake up and realize I still have not achieved the level of greatness in my work I have set out to achieve. But this journey we are on as animators is lifelong. I will forever be a student of this field.

I have also learned to stop looking back and harping on the past. Whats done is done, and there not a damn thing I can do about it. So what the point spending precious time thinking about it. That only slows down the mission of today. For me, now each day is the start of the rest of my life, each day I take as an opportunity to achieve the greatness I couldn't achieve yesterday, because guess what buddy, I WILL break this trend.

Move Forward.

Range of Motion in the Spine&Neck

Your spine is made up of 33 bones called vertebrae. These are divided into four groups: cervical(your neck), thoracic(mid back) and lumbar(lower-back), and the sacral and coccyx. The spine serves to not only hold up ones head, shoulders, upper body, ability to stand upright and rotation, but it also protects the spinal cord. The  major bones of ones back are the 24 vertebrae, which are stacked one atop the other, (separated by spinal segments. which prevent shock) and become increasingly large as they descend supporting more and more of ones body weight.

 

 Range of motion is generally defined as the amount of movement that a joint or body part can move. We measure range of motion (ROM) by standing in an upright position with your hands at your side, which is 0 degrees.  The four movements measured are flexion, extension, lateral flexion and rotation. Flexion is forward bending; extension is bending backward; lateral flexion is side bending; and rotation is a twisting motion.

                                                         

The Cervical Vertebrae

The cervical part of the spine is made up of seven vertebrae, in which the upper two vertebrae have there own names. The first one, atlas, holds up the skull, and is named  after the Greek god who held the heavens upon his shoulders. The second is called the axis, which assists in rotating the head.

     The Thoracic Vertebrae

 The thoracic spine attaches to our ribcage. Range of motion for the thoracic spine include 30 degrees of rotation and 50 degrees of kyphosis. (Kyphosis is just a name for the outward curve of the thoracic spine).

       The Lumbar Vertebrae

The lumbar vertebrae is the largest segment of the spine, helps support the weight of the body, and permit movement. This part of the spine is also one of the most flexible...eh...well maybe more so when done by a contortionist, can you believe this is pretty much all lumbar spine!?

 

THE TRANSVERSOSPINALES MUSCLES

(Bones and Muscles- An Illustrated Anatomy Virginia Cantarella)

*The multifidus muscle extends and rotates the back. The semispinales muscles; capitis, cervics and thoracacis muscles run over and next to the multifidus muscles. The semispinales muscles extend and rotate the spinal column, and the capitus muscles assist in holding the head erect and turning it.

 Range of Motion in the Neck

The neck supports the weight of our heads, is very flexible, and allows us to twist and turn it in all directions.It has two main pivot points, at the base of the neck and at the top where the head sits.  

I found this section of an article written on this site: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1250253/#i1062-6050-40-3-155-b16 

by Erik E Swartz, R. T Floyd, and Mike Cendoma

^{to be so informative I felt I should post it here. The citation is can be found at the bottom of this post.}

"The cervical spine's range of motion is approximately 80° to 90° of flexion, 70° of extension, 20° to 45° of lateral flexion, and up to 90° of rotation to both sides(Swartz)."

"General flexion and extension motion of the neck does not necessarily reflect the movement among vertebrae in the cervical spine. In fact, a vertebra may experience its greatest range of motion in flexion or extension before the cervical column itself has fully flexed or extended. Furthermore, a vertebra may experience a large range of movement in one direction while the cervical column on the whole exhibits movement in the opposite direction(Swartz)."

 

 THE STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE

The sternocledodmastoid muscle assists with the rotation of the head and neck and tilting your chin to each side. There are other muscles that help rotate and bend your neck. Such as the rectus capitis lateralis muscle,and the rectus capitis anterior muscle. These are two small muscles shown in red on the model below.

(Bones and Muscles- An Illustrated Anatomy Virginia Cantarella)

Swartz, Erik E., R.T. Floyd, and Mike Cendoma. Cervical Spine Functional Anatomy and the Biomechanics of Injury Due to Compressive Loading. N.p., July 2005. Web.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/257162-normal-human-range-of-motion/#ixzz2ILzzO1lR
Williams, Brady. "Range of Motion Reference Guide." LIVESTRONG.COM. N.p., 14 June 2011. Web. 30 Dec. 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P26fSK6CGYw
http://www.livestrong.com/article/271802-range-of-motion-reference-guide/
 http://www.livestrong.com/article/276514-range-of-motion-of-the-spine/
 http://www.livestrong.com/article/95456-normal-neck-range-motion/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebral_column