Weekly Theme: A Deadly Sin

you never want to take a cupcake from a Panda!

Weekly Theme: Design a Sith

Darth Hamo.. muhahaha

Hello Class 5

Break time is all over and we are back! Pre Production is now in session. I am completely excited about starting pre production and coming up with a short film. So far I have 2 ideas so I have a few more to thing of to really get going. My first story is about an imagination of a little girl and how she lets it run wild in an origami paper world. The second idea is set on ice and has a lesson of patience and keep trying. So I'm hoping to narrow down a third idea and nail down the first two ideas.

I've started the weekly themed drawing again this term and our first weeks theme was baby mythical creatures. I chose a Angha (Persian). AN Angha is a hybrid of a lion, dog and a peacock.



Progress reel Class 4

Shots 2-4

Hello everyone..Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. Its been about two weeks and in those two weeks i've been working on trying to push poses and push my shot into splined and work on the dialog. So far I'm pretty far with shots 2-4 and this week is going to be all about cleaning up those shots and finishing shot 1! Here is what i have so far...



We also had a few theme drawings. Here is my hybrid.. Its a kangabat, which is a hybrid of a kangaroo rat and a bat!



and here is mythical creatures in a mundane setting. Its yeti's making a turkey dinner.



Enjoy your week everyone and happy animating!

2 Character Dialog Shot

The past two weeks have been pretty exciting because I've just started my 2 character dialog shot. The sound clip I ended up picking is from Bruce Almighty and it's a more serious piece which is something I havent done yet and thought would be a great challenge. I started off the piece by acting out my scene with another person and recording it for reference. From that I took the parts that I liked and made them into thumbnails on an x-sheet (I know old school.lol) Last week I was just focusing on the layout in 3d and this week was all about the first pass of blocking. Not looking at it for a full 24 hours, I was really able to see some things that I'm going to change and fix before I put in more keyframes, like when he takes off his hat. I'm going to make that more subtle and not have him slam it down. A huge thanks to everyone who made comments and suggestions. Here is my piece so far...




This last week we also had to do another facial pose here is mine.



and here is week 5s theme: The Pet of Horror. Its my character Rocko teh Red Panda and he's trying to eat Spike from AM.



Have a fantastic week everyone!!

Dialog shot Complete!!

This week is fantastic because I have final finished my dialog shot. I've had a lot of fun with this shot from planning, to blocking to finally reaching the finish line. I've learned so much from doing this one shot. But now its a new week and we are starting to plan for the next animation, which is a 2 character dialog shot. I've narrowed it down to 3 possible choices, 2 being more on the serious side and one being super funny where if I pick it I get to do the robot. In the past couple of weeks, since my last blog, I've had to do more facial poses with Bishop and polishing off my shot. Here is my final shot...



here is one of the face pose sets that I did



and here are the 3 sketches that I did for the weekly themes.

Theme: the king


Theme: Animation Ninja


Theme: Little Red (I made her into a panda!!)


Have a great week!!

Class 4!!

Hello everyone. Class 4 has just begun and we wasted no time jumping into it and starting on the facial part of our animations. This week is all about getting into it and blocking out the main shapes of the mouth. This term my mentor is Nicole Herr from Sony Imageworks. It is going to be a fun term with a lot of work ahead. After shooting some facial reference, i got right into it and here is my shot from last term with its first pass at facial animation.



I also started a thread in the forums at AM for weekly themed drawings and week one theme was alien pets. Here is my quick sketch of my alien pet that totally looks like he belongs in the lilo and stitch universe.