November 23, 2010
October 25, 2010
October 18, 2010
Links!
http://radhowto.blogspot.com/ - this one has some pretty hot drawing
tips
http://www.leifjeffers.com/ - an interesting animator's portfolio,
with a cool gear shift assignment.
http://martinkirkhaug.blogspot.com/ - another cool animator's blog
filled with videos. the guys studied at animation mentor too.
http://tobyshelton.blogspot.com/ - a talented artist working at
dreamworks who's just made the switch from a pen to a tablet!
http://www.cgstudiomap.com/ - a map of studios across the world!
http://pbcbstudios.blogspot.com/ - a talented artist who's got some
pretty awesome zoo sketches.
https://www.dreamworksanimationfineart.com - get some artwork from
dreamworks!
http://blackwingdiaries.blogspot.com/ - an animator's blog with a few
book review....
October 11, 2010
October 9, 2010
A new video from Syd Matters.
Syd Matters - Hi Life
envoyé par sydmatters. - Regardez plus de clips, en HD !
October 8, 2010
A bunch of links! (Part 2)
blowing student short from ESMA called Mytho Logique
(watch the brilliant making of here: http://vimeo.com/15396945)
http://parkablogs.com/ - Want to buy a book? it's probably been
reviewed here!
http://www.onanimation.com/ - really happy about that find! filled
with a lot of stuff posted daily, including acting reference, shorts,
interview, artwork and a lot more! definitely worth bookmarking!
http://comicrazys.com/ - great resource for 1950-1960 comics and
cartoon style!
http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/ - an other great find! with a
fascinating article on color...
http://budsartbooks.com/ - http://www.stuartngbooks.com/ - you'll
probably find any book you've ever dreamed about here!
http://reallyidontthinkso-sam.blogspot.com/ - check out his pixel art!
its brilliant! it's amazing how just a few carefully chosen colors,
combined with correct proportions can instantly be identified!
http://vimeo.com/ctnanimationexpo/videos - various talks from the CTN
expo, worth checking out!
http://journal.joshburton.com/ - are you ready for the next gen, free
maya 1 fits all free rig! Because i think that's the one! Looking
forward in playing with it someday!
http://www.scottenglert.com/?cat=5 - a friend of the above blog with
some rather interesting scripts!
http://animatorsresource.blogspot.com/ - always filled and packed
with new things. What ever is good out there, you'll most likely find
it there!
http://melmade.blogspot.com/ - a talented AM alumni, with astonishing
draftsmanship, currently working at disney check his doodles out!
stay tuned for more!
A bunch of links!
but heads up! here is some food for you:
http://www.brendanbody.co.uk/ - an incredibly talented animation
supervisor with some breathtaking tutorials on bouncing balls,
breathing and bird animation. A lot more can be found there, so take a
good look!
http://animatorsbuffet.blogspot.com/ - found through Brendan's blog,
there are some very old, yet powerful shorts that can be seen there,
look for a short called balance. it's fantastic! (and as old as I am)
http://www.drawergeeks.com/ - a private forum with drawing contests
from talented people who work in the art/animation/design world...
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~kymohr20/ - a really talented animator
(kyle Mohr), worked at blue sky for a while, and has a very simple yet
powerful piece of animation called "now boarding"
http://dailywav.com - a new sound file to animate to everyday!
...
stay tuned for more!
June 10, 2010
May 25, 2010
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March 28, 2010
March 10, 2010
March 6, 2010
Eye Candy
Superfad Directs Colorful Vision in " Eye Candy" for Sony BRAVIA HDTV from Hype Communications on Vimeo.
great ad! and really nice slow motion parrot at the 1.45 mark.
March 5, 2010
March 4, 2010
Wow
Elk Hair Caddis from peter smith on Vimeo.
MakingOf_ElkhairCaddis_peter smith from peter smith on Vimeo.
February 26, 2010
February 12, 2010
February 7, 2010
AutoRig
For some reason it feels like scripting is right for me. It feels like i'm using my full brain power and having lots of fun doing so. I not felt that exited and challenged about 3D in a loooong while. And even though it's just been 24 hours, I feel extremely comfortable! weird right?
So far i actually hand wrote 730 line of mel with no auto rig reference.
i've strugled here and there as i did not speak mel 24 hours ago, but averall it's going fine.
here is the UI:
i'm almost finished with the template skeleton that you use to reposition over your model,
and this is what you get when you click on the create template rig button:
Most of the spheres are not just spheres, i made attributes and other things so that it takes just a few minutes to place them correctly
as you see it's still missing the spline, hands and feet. but i needed to stop and make the UI first as they will depend on the user's selection.
once I'll be finished with that, i will move on and create the skeleton. using values from the template skeleton.
February 2, 2010
It's been a while,
First, here is a new cool video i found online:
Upgrade + Mobilize from Benji Thiem on Vimeo.
Second, here is my latest animation mentor assignment
And finaly, here is the lastest job i did, where I had to animate 2000 frames form the belt up in 18 hours! (an other animator took care of the facial animation)