Saturday, 9 May 2009

more stuff I did this semester

here's more stuff I did this semester,

Lip Sync



and

voice characterization



Friday, 1 May 2009

Animation project






hey there people, WOw that was more like a few weeks than a few days...well I've been busy animating, tryyyying to finish my animation which Im gonna share with you guys, its not finished yet... I think my story idea is waaay too complicated...for the amount of time I had..but anyway




I was also gonna share character development drawings but I just realized that I gave it in yesterday as part of my assignment for university,...I'll post them some other time,



heres the animatics


THE FIRST animatic








SCENE 1 improved


Half of Scene 2 improved







SCENE 3 Improved






and this is the animation so far SUPER MARKET BIG SALE
ok, I was showing this to my mom, and she was saying "why did the trolley suddenly disappear???" for people who don't understand, if it looks flashy, its not finished, if the movement looks weird (stops, moves, stops, moves) its not finished either ok loL,





STORYBOARDS pinned on the wall
(click image to see bigger)




UNIVERSITY is over for this academic year uUUoooh!, back in september....

i'm gonna continue doing my animation studies, hopefully more, since I have more time now.



Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Dive in perspective

thIs is an exercise i did a few weeks ago.

I first posted it on the JRA Forum and got some feedback from some of people there, it was really cool, there was this girl who actually did a video review to explained wat was wrong with my shot, (if you're reading this thank you once aGAIn "cRippY"!!!) So heres the result, i hope its better lol...

Sunday, 8 March 2009

What I've been Up to lately

Hi there people, I haven't posted in a while, that's because I've been busy with university work, right now I'm working on short animation, I've done the the rough storyboards I just need to fix a few things, I also started working on the characters....I'll be posting all this in a few days....

For now I leave you with this super cool Canadian Animation "THE CAT CAME BACK", its got an awesome sound track and its incredibly funny!!!

Check It OUt!!!!
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Life drawing




The quality of the picture is not great tho...it looks much nicer in real life

Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Learning the principles

These are some tests from the Jason Ryan tutorials...now these are almost exact copies of Jason's... what I have to do is apply what I've learned in these tutorials and apply it to my own...actually when I was animating the little girl, I started to remember some of the things that I had learned on Jason's tutorials.


Timing, Spacing, overlap and follow through

Anticipation Tutorial

Sneak

Weight lift


Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Jason Ryan Animation 5*****




I first found out about Jason Ryan Animation last Summer while searching for animation tutorials online. It was then when I found out about his ramp up tutorials, when I first watched Jason animating, I was like WOW, so THAAATS how you do it! from then on I was hooked up and signed up for his webinars. (a webinar its like a seminar but online, for people who don't know)

Since September 2008 I've been attending the JRA Webinars, and it's been an amazing experience. I mean, reading books about animation is one thing, but actually seeing someone approaching an animation shot and animating it right on the spot while explaining it, its just mind blowing!!! In these webinars you learn so much and you if your not quite sure of something, you can just ask Jason!


Let me tell a bit about Jason.
Jason Ryan is a Supervisor animator who has worked in films such as "Fantasia 2000", "Chicken Little" and currently is now supervising at DreamWorks on the up coming title "Shrek 4".

Jason is a super cool, exciting guy and an excellent teacher. He has a great work flow and approach to animation. He starts off by doing a 2D rough animation in Flipbook and then brings it into Maya to polish it up.
Right now his doing a mini series tutorials on "Timing and Spacing", "Drag, Overlap and Follow Through" and last but not least "Weight and Balance".
If you're serious about animation as career, or even if your a pro animator and want to improve your skills I highly, HIGHLy recommend these tutorials!
You can find out more about JRA on his website at http://www.jasonryananimation.com/ and for the webinars at http://www.jrawebinar.com/
I've learned so much about character animation since I joined Jason's tutorials and I'm very grateful to him so,
THANKS A MILL JASON!!!

It Just doesn't get any better than tHis fellas!!!