Moving Along

"Promise" Third pass

2012-02-11T19:26:00.001-08:00

Just thought I'd go ahead and post my third pass here.

Promise second blocking pass

2012-02-11T02:05:00.000-08:00

Just thought I might post this since I haven't posted in a while. This is my second blocking pass, the reference is on the side for comparison. I have been trying to observe it really closely and see what makes it alive and make sure I get the body mechanics right. I have a long ways to go.

mocap final

2011-12-20T20:45:00.000-08:00

Here's my mocap final - meant to post this a bit ago but forgot. It was a group project, lots of fun, but really challenging working with everybody and coridinating this and all the software issues and various problems.

I've also just finished my first super-awesome ball rig following the Animator Friendly Rigging, which is a whole lot more awesome than I thought it was going to be. Worth every penny of the $15 for the first one. I learned a ton about rigging and workflow. If I get camtasia maybe I'll post a video of it. Yes, I'm that proud of this silly little ball rig :) Tomorrow I start on bipeds!

Flash Final

2011-12-15T23:42:00.000-08:00

Here's my flash final. I'm going to finish this music video for my friend someday. Its his song "Homesick Astronaut" by Mike Ackman I did all the planning and animation for it.

Lorax

2011-10-28T12:03:00.000-07:00

I'm super excited for this movie coming out. Illumination Entertainment has become one of my favorite studios.

And because we can't forget the original 1972 Lorax movie! Gotta love it!

Rendered Frame

2011-10-27T11:21:00.000-07:00

Just one rendered frame of my dragon shot. Its not done yet or ready to be rendered, but I thought it was fun. I had to check some spots to check intersections and stuff.

Dragon Update

2011-10-23T23:53:00.000-07:00

This is where my dragon has ended up for now. It still has work that needs to be done to it, but my reel was due at midnight and this was as far as I could get it. I'm bummed, I wanted it to be perfect, but such is life.

Tan's Art Studio

2011-10-21T12:32:00.000-07:00

I'm still working on a new pass of my animation which WILL be done by Sunday one way or another and then I'll post it, but in the meantime, my Fine Arts teacher Zimou Tan posts some awesome drawing tutorials and progress stuff on youtube. Awesome to watch.

This is one of his few digital drawings. You'd never know he couldn't get a lot of precision or pressure sensitivity on the ipad.

Dragon In Progress

2011-10-16T20:51:00.000-07:00

Just thought I'd post this since I'm trying to keep this blog up to date. The deadline has been pushed back a week for this piece and so I took it a little easier this weekend. Its still unfinished, but its getting there!

Perspective Process

2011-10-13T22:36:00.000-07:00

My perspective teacher Joko posted a really cool process video on how he does a perspective art piece. He takes no shortcuts! Crazy the amount of time this must have taken!

Ergonomics

2011-10-11T23:36:00.000-07:00

I saw this and had to share it with anyone who might be reading this blog. This is so important. I had tendinitis in my elbow and it still acts up sometimes, if I didn't make my workstation ergonomic, I wouldn't be able to animate today, I'd already be all mangled and broken - at age 22! I know too many people who don't take ergonomics seriously, or don't understand how to do it. If you're reading this, PLEASE watch this video.

punch notes

2011-10-11T16:01:00.001-07:00

Just thought this was fun, seeing how changing a few things changed the entire feel of the whole punch.

Dragon Splines

2011-10-11T11:33:00.000-07:00

This is after a day or two of tweaking splines. Went to JD's last night and he gave me a TON of notes on the punch and the dragon that I'm really looking forward to putting in here, but I thought that I'd post this as an inbetween stage :)

I'm going to post these using youtube now instead of the blogger player since its better, I'd do dropbox, but I don't want to have to keep these up forever and take up space on there.

Runs and Dragons

2011-10-04T00:16:00.001-07:00

Well, I thought that since I have a blog, I should probably use it. Working really hard lately. Here are two of the pieces I'm working on. I have a third, but I'm not going to post my iAnimate stuffs as per Jason Ryan's request. So here it is. I went to APE and met some really great people from local game studios and they told me that my reel really needed a run cycle, so I took a day to work this out. I still need to get it reviewed by JD, but hopefully there's nothing too wrong with it. Blogger's player doesn't let you loop it unfortunately, so he's only taking two steps, but just imagine it going on longer! :) The dragon is still in blocking/stepped mode since its only my second pass. I'm thinking I may need to tweak the timing on that one since when she lifts him up, the dragon doesn't feel as heavy as he used to now that I've broken it down more. It may also be that stepped mode has a tendency to make everything feel so snappy, as soon as JD sees this I'm going to go into spline mode and smooth everything out.

I'm also doing mocap and when I get that farther, maybe I'll post it, too.

PZero Reel

2011-05-16T22:24:00.000-07:00

These are my compiled pieces for my pzero class:

Sneak Spline Pass and Pill Dive

2011-03-13T22:01:00.001-07:00

Shame on me for not updating in forever. I'm still working, though. This is a personal project I've been working on, to redo the iAnimate sneak. I'm far from finished with this, this is my first spline pass and I haven't even touched the arms.

Here's a pill jump I did for my Principles of Animation Class

I have some other stuff, too, like a horse trot floating around somewhere which I will add sometime.

iAnimate Workshop 2 Demo Reel

2011-01-08T08:44:00.000-08:00

This is my iAnimate workshop 2 demo reel. I'm taking a break from iAnimate next semester because with classes at AAU, I was too overwhelmed and wasn't able to really make everything my best work. I'll be reapplying for April though!

persp homework

2010-10-17T19:24:00.000-07:00

Haven't posted anything in a while since Jason wants us to keep our work for iAnimate under wraps for a bit. So I thought I'd post my perspective homework for this week.

Skip Fixed

2010-10-05T21:34:00.000-07:00

Not wonderful, but much improved.

skip 3D

2010-09-16T00:40:00.001-07:00

I had to pull it back a bit for 3D, I don't know if I'm happy with it . . . I wish I had the snappiness back.

2D skip

2010-09-08T23:32:00.000-07:00

Woooo! This took a lot longer than I thought it would. This is the template for my 3D animation that I have to do for class.

Pendulum

2010-09-07T21:30:00.001-07:00

Done for class at AAU, I think there are a few things that could be fixed up, but this is where I'm leaving it for now so that I can move onto the skip animation :) I may come back to it and fix it up or put more to it before class on Thursday night if I get time.

Side Step Animation

2010-08-03T01:49:00.001-07:00

Followed a JRA tutorial again. This one took significantly longer than the run. Its hard to compare to the sneak though. Maybe a little easier than the sneak, but a lot harder than the run.

broad cartoony run cycle

2010-08-01T13:16:00.000-07:00

Did this in 2D and will clean it up in 3D tomorrow :) Once again, I followed a JRA tutorial

2D sneak animation

2010-07-31T23:54:00.001-07:00

Here's a 2D sneak animation that I did from a Jason Ryan Animation ramp up webinar.

Progress

2010-05-15T19:29:00.000-07:00

The progress of my in-class final for Z's class, and a couple heads from my sketchbook of 200 heads and 200 hands in pen - blah, took me 180 to get the hang of it

heads and hands

2010-05-07T10:45:00.000-07:00

Me And Eggroll - My hamster!

The final in class pose in progress.

blah

2009-12-10T20:57:00.000-08:00

School's been crazy. One more week of finals and I'll be done thank god. Here's my final guy for my animation class, fully modeled and rigged by me, I'm working on the animation.

Kaaabooom!

2009-10-23T20:25:00.001-07:00

I colored the panda fish :)

I kinda like how it looks like a shot out of a movie, but at the same time, the more I look at it, the more I wish I paid attention to the anatomy of the shoulder. It's pretty off, but oh well.

So I had my brain explode the other day. My teacher looked at my portfolio, he's been helping me out a lot since I got to AAU, pointing me in the right direction and all, and he says I have a lot of potential in character development (visual development) for animation, possibly more than animation. It makes sense, cause I love drawing these little cartoons, so I'm going to try to character animation 1, and if that doesn't work, I'll hi-tail it the other way. The more i think about it, the more I seem to like the idea of visual development . . . we'll see. I had never thought about it before.

Panda-Fish

2009-10-21T11:59:00.001-07:00

And children, this is why we don't do drugs . . . I've noticed that late night drawings look like they came out of a drug trip and almost always have to do with pandas, but I think that last part is just me.

Freddie and I have started working on a short animation from Oren Lavie's song, Ruby Rises. Its an awesome song, if you haven't listened, go listen now, you won't be disappointed. I'm doing all the animation stuff and Freddie's in charge of all the concepting. I'm going to try to teach him some animation stuff, so we'll see how that goes . . . Might also bring someone else in on it after I make the storyboard. I'll post the stuff here when we get going further on it!

A.P.E.

2009-10-18T11:56:00.000-07:00

Random half hour sketch I did last night when I couldn't sleep . . . looking at it now her forehead is kinda short. :/ I've gotta really practice heads for Heads and Hands 1 for next semester . . . I think my teacher is a little disappointed with where I am now . . . I'm working on it though!

Went to the alternative press expo yesterday, met some really great artists! I bought a Gnomon Workshop storyboarding DVD by Derek Thompson, a pixar story artist. He was a pretty cool guy, got him to sign it for me. He said to email him with what I think after I watch it. So far it's pretty good, it's three hours long, I think I've watched about an hour or so. I'll be sure to email him, I think this dvd will really help me with my animating.

I also met Pacal Champion, who is now one of my favorite artists! His use of color is really amazing, go check him out if you're reading this! www.pascalchampion.com I got his autographed book and he gave me a free print I've now got hanging on my wall.

Massive Black was there, too, Freddie freaked out and got two of his idols' sketchbook copies signed. I also saw a teacher of mine from last year, Joko. He's pretty epic, I couldn't afford his book, sadly, so I got him to sign one of his free posters for me. I might see him again in advanced perspective.

All in all, it got me pretty pumped and excited to draw an animate, totally worth the money, even though now I can't buy food. Give and take, eh? :)

Well, today is a fun-filled day of homework! So I best get to it. Blah.

hello

2009-10-18T00:17:00.001-07:00

Trying to get a blog on every website possible, it seems sometimes. I need to find one and stick with it. Gotta find one I like I guess :)