Friday, February 28, 2014
Annecy 2014! I'm going!
Yeaaaaaah! Just today I bought my accreditation to the Annecy Animation Festival next June! For the second year in a row I'm so excited that I'll be going! Can't wait, it's an invaluable experience! Here I go again France!!! =)
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Glen Keane about Animation
This has all the reasons for one to love all of this. Animation is truly wonderful. I couldn't have chosen anything else better to do with my life.
Truly inspiring.
Truly inspiring.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Seth Godin speach about career and so many things more
I recently found out about Chris Oatley website, and boy is that amazing. There are a TON of great info in there, some stuff apply mainly to Character Designing and painting etc cause that's he's art but some of it applies to all kinds of artists, and some of it actually to your whole life!
HERE's the link to his website.
An example of great stuff that you can find there, is this video, that are one of the most important 20 minutes you need to think about your career and your choices and your way of thinking about your future. Totally totally worth watching!
Amazing!
HERE's the link to his website.
An example of great stuff that you can find there, is this video, that are one of the most important 20 minutes you need to think about your career and your choices and your way of thinking about your future. Totally totally worth watching!
Amazing!
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Professional Work - BES Piggy Pops As Cores da Poupança (December 2013)
Today I come to talk about my first professional work in animation!
It was for a 2 minutes commercial for a Portuguese Bank (BES) produced by Black Ink Prods.
BES website
Black Ink Prods website
Black Ink Prods Facebook
For this commercial I animated almost every single shot (except the one with the bike) and had a very very VERY short period of time to do it. The whole animation production was done in 7 days and one morning. It was crazy but I would be lying if I say that I didn't had a blast!
The style of animation was immediately chosen as for a simple way to do it so the production would be faster. The one big influence and reference was Pocoyo. Not long before I was looking frame by frame at one episode from Pocoyo and I was amazed how those guys used timing and spacing, the fast transitions and huge holds and how it worked perfectly. I said to myself that I would love to try that someday, and the oportunity came much faster than I thought!
The characters were very simple, which was good and bad at the same time. It was good because I had less controls to animate (making it simpler and faster) but it was also not so good because I couldn't do much to their expressiveness, except make them bounce around and use poses that read well enough. Also I had to be extra carefull not to break the geometry or create a (very) strange silhouette.
I animated it all in 3ds Studio Max, which was the first time I ever looked at the software. It was really scary in the beginning, but the guys from Black Ink were absolutely awesome helping me out in everything I needed!
In the end I can't say that I am totally proud of the animation, although the lighting and rendering work done in post-production sure added A LOT, but I know I did the best I could do considering the time limit I had (I was doing something like 14 seconds of animation each day... to put things in perspective: in the last semester of my animation school I had around 9 weeks to animate 20 seconds... with quick math that's 1 second for 3 days of work. You can see the difference. Welcome to the real life right?).
And I think the final product is quite good! I think it achieved the goals that were settled and it hits the right audience. And one thing is true, that song won't come out of your head easily!
It was an honour for me to be called for this project and I have to give a special thank you to Manuel Santiago who contacted me and called me into the project, Diogo Barbosa for suggesting me and helping me out in everything I needed, and to Sergio Martins for talking about me to Diogo (I mean, I didn't even apply for this job!).
Behold the final result:
It sure is amazing to work professionally in something that we love so much to do. Here's to the first of many! Hopefully.
It was for a 2 minutes commercial for a Portuguese Bank (BES) produced by Black Ink Prods.
BES website
Black Ink Prods website
Black Ink Prods Facebook
For this commercial I animated almost every single shot (except the one with the bike) and had a very very VERY short period of time to do it. The whole animation production was done in 7 days and one morning. It was crazy but I would be lying if I say that I didn't had a blast!
The style of animation was immediately chosen as for a simple way to do it so the production would be faster. The one big influence and reference was Pocoyo. Not long before I was looking frame by frame at one episode from Pocoyo and I was amazed how those guys used timing and spacing, the fast transitions and huge holds and how it worked perfectly. I said to myself that I would love to try that someday, and the oportunity came much faster than I thought!
The characters were very simple, which was good and bad at the same time. It was good because I had less controls to animate (making it simpler and faster) but it was also not so good because I couldn't do much to their expressiveness, except make them bounce around and use poses that read well enough. Also I had to be extra carefull not to break the geometry or create a (very) strange silhouette.
I animated it all in 3ds Studio Max, which was the first time I ever looked at the software. It was really scary in the beginning, but the guys from Black Ink were absolutely awesome helping me out in everything I needed!
In the end I can't say that I am totally proud of the animation, although the lighting and rendering work done in post-production sure added A LOT, but I know I did the best I could do considering the time limit I had (I was doing something like 14 seconds of animation each day... to put things in perspective: in the last semester of my animation school I had around 9 weeks to animate 20 seconds... with quick math that's 1 second for 3 days of work. You can see the difference. Welcome to the real life right?).
And I think the final product is quite good! I think it achieved the goals that were settled and it hits the right audience. And one thing is true, that song won't come out of your head easily!
It was an honour for me to be called for this project and I have to give a special thank you to Manuel Santiago who contacted me and called me into the project, Diogo Barbosa for suggesting me and helping me out in everything I needed, and to Sergio Martins for talking about me to Diogo (I mean, I didn't even apply for this job!).
Behold the final result:
It sure is amazing to work professionally in something that we love so much to do. Here's to the first of many! Hopefully.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Sharing Animation - Fast Film (Virgil Widrich, 2003)
For so long have I waited to find a good version of this animation online so I could share it here. I finally found one, and by the will of the biggest animation god (or goddess) out there, I will share it today!
This short film is absolutely brilliant. It's so complex, so insane and so beautifully done, that I think anyone would 'wow' at it.
This short is called Fast Film, directed by the austrian Virgil Widrich.
So this short uses printouts from films. They would choose a little bit of a film, cut it from the original and print every single frame in different pages so they can fold it and use it as a different object. So yes, for the films to be kind of screening inside the obects, the objects would have been printed, folded, photographed and replaced for the next one for every frame of film, which is 24 for each second. I would say in some parts there's definetely 10 or more films going on in different objects at the same time, so with simple math, they would have printed and folded and photographed around 240 objects for each second of film. Now the short has around 14 minutes! And it was photographed as a normal stop-motion animation, frame by frame, with a camera and a computer.
When you start to understand how this film was made, you start imagining how crazy it's making might have been done. And yes, it is crazy. All sort of fun facts: They watched around 1200 films to compile with around 400 of them every little piece they needed; They used around 65000 printouts and printed around 80000 pages out of one printer. So imagine the toners... they say it was around 12.000,- Euros of toners; There were 12 people working in the short, how hard would it be for them to fold those 65000 paper models. It took them about one year to do so.
I think this is so cool. The level of frame by frame manipulation is gigantic, I imagine the struggle to keep everything together without losing their minds!
HERE is the official website for this short.
Here's the MAKING OF:
The short was screened all over the globe, in 323 international festivals and won 36 awards. So here's Fast Film by Virgil Widrich!
See you soon with another awesome short from this incredible art form that is animation!
This short film is absolutely brilliant. It's so complex, so insane and so beautifully done, that I think anyone would 'wow' at it.
This short is called Fast Film, directed by the austrian Virgil Widrich.
So this short uses printouts from films. They would choose a little bit of a film, cut it from the original and print every single frame in different pages so they can fold it and use it as a different object. So yes, for the films to be kind of screening inside the obects, the objects would have been printed, folded, photographed and replaced for the next one for every frame of film, which is 24 for each second. I would say in some parts there's definetely 10 or more films going on in different objects at the same time, so with simple math, they would have printed and folded and photographed around 240 objects for each second of film. Now the short has around 14 minutes! And it was photographed as a normal stop-motion animation, frame by frame, with a camera and a computer.
When you start to understand how this film was made, you start imagining how crazy it's making might have been done. And yes, it is crazy. All sort of fun facts: They watched around 1200 films to compile with around 400 of them every little piece they needed; They used around 65000 printouts and printed around 80000 pages out of one printer. So imagine the toners... they say it was around 12.000,- Euros of toners; There were 12 people working in the short, how hard would it be for them to fold those 65000 paper models. It took them about one year to do so.
I think this is so cool. The level of frame by frame manipulation is gigantic, I imagine the struggle to keep everything together without losing their minds!
HERE is the official website for this short.
Here's the MAKING OF:
The short was screened all over the globe, in 323 international festivals and won 36 awards. So here's Fast Film by Virgil Widrich!
Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!
See you soon with another awesome short from this incredible art form that is animation!
No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Sharing Animation - Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks - Walt Disney Studios, 1928)
Coming back from a long streak of animated music videos I want to return to, well let's call them normal short movies, but hopefully they don't have anything normal about them!
And of course, I wanted to come back BIG, so what else but a big classic!
One of the biggest in fact, Steamboat Willie, directed by Walt Disney himself and Ub Iwerks.
YES this is the short in which Mickey Mouse has that classic whistling song of his in the ship's wheel! This shirt is actually not the first Mickey appearance, he appeared in two other cartoons prior to this one, Plain Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho. But nevertheless, the original release date (November 18, 1928) was later considered Mickey's official birthday!
This was the first cartoon with synchronized sound. It was a parody of a Buster Keaton film, Steamboat Bill Jr. It is quite crude and as you may see, not at all the gentle Mickey we got to know over the years. But it's mad fun to watch how he grew!
I'm sure there's tons and tons of fun facts and other stories about this short, but I don't want to elongate myself here, since this is such a well known short.
So without further ado, here's Steamboat Willie by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, in the old times of Walt Disney Studios.
See you soon with more and more sharings!
And of course, I wanted to come back BIG, so what else but a big classic!
One of the biggest in fact, Steamboat Willie, directed by Walt Disney himself and Ub Iwerks.
YES this is the short in which Mickey Mouse has that classic whistling song of his in the ship's wheel! This shirt is actually not the first Mickey appearance, he appeared in two other cartoons prior to this one, Plain Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho. But nevertheless, the original release date (November 18, 1928) was later considered Mickey's official birthday!
This was the first cartoon with synchronized sound. It was a parody of a Buster Keaton film, Steamboat Bill Jr. It is quite crude and as you may see, not at all the gentle Mickey we got to know over the years. But it's mad fun to watch how he grew!
I'm sure there's tons and tons of fun facts and other stories about this short, but I don't want to elongate myself here, since this is such a well known short.
So without further ado, here's Steamboat Willie by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, in the old times of Walt Disney Studios.
Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!
See you soon with more and more sharings!
No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Sharing Animation - Music Video - Strawberry Swing (Shynola, 2009)
It has been a while since I don't share some more animation even though I have this huge list yet to be shared! =) So I'm back to wrap up the animated music videos, at least for now. And yes, I chose a good one for last.
This music is Strawberry Swing by Coldplay, and the video is from the amazing artists from Shynola.
Shynola are a little less and a little more than the usual animation studio. They are only three (when they started they were four), so I guess that's for the less, but they are all great friends that met in college and got together just to make the stuff they love. And that surely is a lot! In the end they are not a usual animation studio because they don't make just the usual animations, they go further.
They are mostly known for their work with music videos. Coldplay (yes, this one), Radiohead and Queens of the Stone Age (the last one HERE) to name a few. They also animated some parts and bits for filmes, like the title sequence for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and some animated bits for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
HERE you can see their official website and the music videos they produced.
HERE is a link to their Vimeo channel.
Now I'll take my time talking about how it was made, since it's so good looking and it was in fact a work that required much sweat.
First things first: Yes it is Chris Martin in the video.
One of the main logistics about this video is that the animation had to be very very well planned prior to the recordings. When Chris went to the studio to record (they did it in one week and the whole project took 3 months to be done), the Shynola guys had already a fully planned animation to follow as reference, in which the character played by Chris was an animated CG character.
It WAS all drawn on the floor with chalk. Of course they had only to draw and rub the parts that were going to move, which in big mass parts, like a cloud or something you can even see that the pattern in the middle stays the same. But nevertheless it really is an amazing accomplishment!
Since they had it planned and animated prior to the shooting itself, they could use that as reference, they would carry a portable screen in which they could see the reference video and a live streaming of the actual scene (for the knowledgeable people out there, it works like a normal stop-motion software, where you can see live what you're doing and through "onion-skins " see the frame(s) before or reference videos)
About the hero narrative in the whole thing, the story doesn't really relate to the lyrics, Shynola's team tried to take the mood of the song instead of going directly to the words, they say they would have nothing to add and it would be less interesting for them to produce, which only shows us again how this guys are doing what they like to do!
And what they like to do, we like to see! Strawberry Swing by Shynola.
See you soon with another animation treat! Next time won't be a music video (unless I cross with some absolutely amazing one!)
This music is Strawberry Swing by Coldplay, and the video is from the amazing artists from Shynola.
Shynola are a little less and a little more than the usual animation studio. They are only three (when they started they were four), so I guess that's for the less, but they are all great friends that met in college and got together just to make the stuff they love. And that surely is a lot! In the end they are not a usual animation studio because they don't make just the usual animations, they go further.
They are mostly known for their work with music videos. Coldplay (yes, this one), Radiohead and Queens of the Stone Age (the last one HERE) to name a few. They also animated some parts and bits for filmes, like the title sequence for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and some animated bits for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
HERE you can see their official website and the music videos they produced.
HERE is a link to their Vimeo channel.
Now I'll take my time talking about how it was made, since it's so good looking and it was in fact a work that required much sweat.
First things first: Yes it is Chris Martin in the video.
One of the main logistics about this video is that the animation had to be very very well planned prior to the recordings. When Chris went to the studio to record (they did it in one week and the whole project took 3 months to be done), the Shynola guys had already a fully planned animation to follow as reference, in which the character played by Chris was an animated CG character.
It WAS all drawn on the floor with chalk. Of course they had only to draw and rub the parts that were going to move, which in big mass parts, like a cloud or something you can even see that the pattern in the middle stays the same. But nevertheless it really is an amazing accomplishment!
Since they had it planned and animated prior to the shooting itself, they could use that as reference, they would carry a portable screen in which they could see the reference video and a live streaming of the actual scene (for the knowledgeable people out there, it works like a normal stop-motion software, where you can see live what you're doing and through "onion-skins " see the frame(s) before or reference videos)
About the hero narrative in the whole thing, the story doesn't really relate to the lyrics, Shynola's team tried to take the mood of the song instead of going directly to the words, they say they would have nothing to add and it would be less interesting for them to produce, which only shows us again how this guys are doing what they like to do!
And what they like to do, we like to see! Strawberry Swing by Shynola.
Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!
See you soon with another animation treat! Next time won't be a music video (unless I cross with some absolutely amazing one!)
No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Sharing Animation - Music Video - Baby I'm Yours (Irina Dakeva, 2010)
Coming back from a huge hangover of long hours animating (and a few resting) I'm finally back to share more animations with you all!
And I'll continue with the animated music videos today!
This one was one of the firsts in my list to share, but only now did I feel that it was it's time.
This one is called Baby I'm Yours, the video directed by Irina Dakeva, and the music by Breakbot.
About the music composer first. Breakbot is his stage name, his real name is Thibaut Berland and interestingly enough he's also an animation guy! He co-directed an animation short with two other fellow students while in university. His short is called Overtime and can be seen HERE. Awesome right? He must have had some input in his music video as well... I can only guess, of course.
Now about the short. Irina Dakeva is a producer working in WIZZdesign, Paris (link to website). In a interview, she told how sick she was of digital looking animations, and thought of this music video as a fresh way to make it. The short itself was made out of rotoscopy (most of it at least, when you watch it, you can definetly see which parts used a live-action film and which parts didn't), with more than 2000 watercolor drawings made by Dakeva herself. The whole project took about 3 and a half months to be completed. Not that much if you consider conception, production and post production, huh?
It's definetly a very much enjoyable video and a good quality work!
Baby I'm Yours, by Irina Dakeva.
See you soon with the last animated music video before going back to them good old animated shorts!
And I'll continue with the animated music videos today!
This one was one of the firsts in my list to share, but only now did I feel that it was it's time.
This one is called Baby I'm Yours, the video directed by Irina Dakeva, and the music by Breakbot.
About the music composer first. Breakbot is his stage name, his real name is Thibaut Berland and interestingly enough he's also an animation guy! He co-directed an animation short with two other fellow students while in university. His short is called Overtime and can be seen HERE. Awesome right? He must have had some input in his music video as well... I can only guess, of course.
Now about the short. Irina Dakeva is a producer working in WIZZdesign, Paris (link to website). In a interview, she told how sick she was of digital looking animations, and thought of this music video as a fresh way to make it. The short itself was made out of rotoscopy (most of it at least, when you watch it, you can definetly see which parts used a live-action film and which parts didn't), with more than 2000 watercolor drawings made by Dakeva herself. The whole project took about 3 and a half months to be completed. Not that much if you consider conception, production and post production, huh?
It's definetly a very much enjoyable video and a good quality work!
Baby I'm Yours, by Irina Dakeva.
Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!
See you soon with the last animated music video before going back to them good old animated shorts!
No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Disney Family Album - Frank Thomas!
Definitely the best episode of disney family album I've seen so far. This guy was simply amazing. =')
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Quick share about hand animation
While I don't find the time to continue my short sharings, I want to quickly post here this very cool work, which, to look at hand animation, is a very very good one!
Taken out of the Spline Doctors blog (link in the "Awesome Animation Links" list at the left), seen it for the fist time in one of the AnimationMentor.com lectures, this pencil animation by Mark Oftedal, 4pm.
http://splinedoctors.com/movies/4pm.mov
Awesome.
Taken out of the Spline Doctors blog (link in the "Awesome Animation Links" list at the left), seen it for the fist time in one of the AnimationMentor.com lectures, this pencil animation by Mark Oftedal, 4pm.
http://splinedoctors.com/movies/4pm.mov
Awesome.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Martin K - Animation Blog: Eric Goldberg Wisdom
Absolutely awesome stuff! Great blog as well!
Martin K - Animation Blog: Eric Goldberg Wisdom: I know it's been out there for a while, but it's still pure gold. What's missing in CG and hand drawn reels: Method of char...
Martin K - Animation Blog: Eric Goldberg Wisdom: I know it's been out there for a while, but it's still pure gold. What's missing in CG and hand drawn reels: Method of char...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Disney Family Album - Milt Kahl and Ward Kimball
My Class 4 mentor from Animation Mentor send us every week a collection of links and references and videos about great animators, which is absolutely amazing!
Two of the animators he talked about and sent us some reference to watch were two of the Nine old Men, the great legendary animators that developed many of the Walt Disney animations that we know today!
So I wanted to share what seemed to be a television show about those great animators, called Disney Family Album! The first about the great draftsman and animator, Milt Kahl, and the second one about the toy and train nut, Ward Kimball.
MILT KAHL
WARD KIMBALL
I'll return with more of those awesome legends!
Two of the animators he talked about and sent us some reference to watch were two of the Nine old Men, the great legendary animators that developed many of the Walt Disney animations that we know today!
So I wanted to share what seemed to be a television show about those great animators, called Disney Family Album! The first about the great draftsman and animator, Milt Kahl, and the second one about the toy and train nut, Ward Kimball.
MILT KAHL
WARD KIMBALL
I'll return with more of those awesome legends!
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Sharing Animation - Music Video - Look (Mrzyk & Moriceau, 2011)
Continuing with the animated music video sharing, this may look as a controversial one (mostly for the XX chromosome people out there).
The name of this one is Look, and it was directed by the great french artists Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau.
Although it may be unnecessary to some people to watch this (mostly when diamonds appear... you'll understand that in a minute!) this animation has a very unique way to show cycles in work and great animation in a very stylish look! And also, to understand this you have to understand the song writer, Sébastien Tellier (this song is from his album Sexuality, coincidently enough), who apparently is considered quite a sexual guy in France. Well, I'm not surprised he has that fame, not after watching this definitely R-rated music video. I didn't know any of that before my little research... I just loved the song. I wonder what that says about me.
Anyway, talking about the Mrzyk & Moriceau duo! You can find a ton of stuff from this two around the internet. But so you know who we're dealing with, HERE is a link with more of their animted work and HERE is a link with some of their illustration work.
This music video is great, and I hope you enjoy it!
Look, by Mrzyt & Moriceau.
See you soon with another animated music video. (IF I can find the video, this one is being hard on me!)
The name of this one is Look, and it was directed by the great french artists Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau.
Although it may be unnecessary to some people to watch this (mostly when diamonds appear... you'll understand that in a minute!) this animation has a very unique way to show cycles in work and great animation in a very stylish look! And also, to understand this you have to understand the song writer, Sébastien Tellier (this song is from his album Sexuality, coincidently enough), who apparently is considered quite a sexual guy in France. Well, I'm not surprised he has that fame, not after watching this definitely R-rated music video. I didn't know any of that before my little research... I just loved the song. I wonder what that says about me.
Anyway, talking about the Mrzyk & Moriceau duo! You can find a ton of stuff from this two around the internet. But so you know who we're dealing with, HERE is a link with more of their animted work and HERE is a link with some of their illustration work.
This music video is great, and I hope you enjoy it!
Look, by Mrzyt & Moriceau.
Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!
See you soon with another animated music video. (IF I can find the video, this one is being hard on me!)
No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
My Animations - Animation Mentor Class 03: Advanced Body Mechanics
Another term, another progress Reel!! Class 3 in Animation Mentor surely had as much fun as hard work!
My mentor this term was another great animator, this time from Dreamworks, called Drew Adams. In Dreamworks he worked in Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, Rise of the Guardians and The Croods. Prior to that he have done some pretty cool stuff as well, like animate on 9, and in the game Call of Duty: Finest Hour. Also worked in 2D as an "inbetweener" in Atlantis, Treasure Planet and Home on the Range! Such a nice career!
Anyway, in Animation Mentor they started with a new program that is collaborative work among classes. Which means, that me and the rest of my class (being mentored and directed by Drew) we worked out a complete sequence (a very very short short, one and a half minutes). So for this term I have 2 new shots, a quick one, made just to get the engines started, and then we started pitching out ideas for our little story. My story actually won the voting process, although in the end we changed it quite a bit, so I don't even consider it mine, I consider it a story made by all of us.
This shot I made was the last shot of the sequence and it was the biggest shot I've ever made. Well, in Animation Mentor anyway. But unfortunately, due to some personal issues, I didn't manage to finish the polish phase completly, that's why the shot is not rendered and it's not so easy to look at as the other one =)
I'll finish it soon enough, right now I'm concentrating on the 4th term already, and this one surely will be a big challenge, since we're starting with the very important art of ACTING! Now things really start to get interesting, and difficult and subjective and... I'm so excited!
Ow, and another thing, I animated both shots with one of the new characters from animation mentor, my dear Stella! The only problem with this one, are the pony tails. Well, not a problem, more like a time consuming issue. But I loved animating her!
Here we go, I hope you enjoy it!
This time I wish you all a happy summer, and enjoy the sun for me! (I won't be seeing much of it!)
See you in 3 more months!
My mentor this term was another great animator, this time from Dreamworks, called Drew Adams. In Dreamworks he worked in Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, Rise of the Guardians and The Croods. Prior to that he have done some pretty cool stuff as well, like animate on 9, and in the game Call of Duty: Finest Hour. Also worked in 2D as an "inbetweener" in Atlantis, Treasure Planet and Home on the Range! Such a nice career!
Anyway, in Animation Mentor they started with a new program that is collaborative work among classes. Which means, that me and the rest of my class (being mentored and directed by Drew) we worked out a complete sequence (a very very short short, one and a half minutes). So for this term I have 2 new shots, a quick one, made just to get the engines started, and then we started pitching out ideas for our little story. My story actually won the voting process, although in the end we changed it quite a bit, so I don't even consider it mine, I consider it a story made by all of us.
This shot I made was the last shot of the sequence and it was the biggest shot I've ever made. Well, in Animation Mentor anyway. But unfortunately, due to some personal issues, I didn't manage to finish the polish phase completly, that's why the shot is not rendered and it's not so easy to look at as the other one =)
I'll finish it soon enough, right now I'm concentrating on the 4th term already, and this one surely will be a big challenge, since we're starting with the very important art of ACTING! Now things really start to get interesting, and difficult and subjective and... I'm so excited!
Ow, and another thing, I animated both shots with one of the new characters from animation mentor, my dear Stella! The only problem with this one, are the pony tails. Well, not a problem, more like a time consuming issue. But I loved animating her!
Here we go, I hope you enjoy it!
This time I wish you all a happy summer, and enjoy the sun for me! (I won't be seeing much of it!)
See you in 3 more months!
Monday, July 1, 2013
Getting into the acting mood!
Last week I started my fourth class in Animation Mentor! And now, after many many weeks working in making a character move in a believable way, now we not only have to do that, but make them move with a purpose, with inner feelings! Sounds crazy fun, and crazy hard!
To get into the acting mood here's a video of a very expressive animator! Amazing stuff! Thanks Joana Ullan for the share!
To get into the acting mood here's a video of a very expressive animator! Amazing stuff! Thanks Joana Ullan for the share!
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