The Pull

So the hop exercise turned out to be total bollix, but we've been working on a weight exercise for character animation and I think I've been able to make it 'decent'. It is no where near being really good, but I've learned a lot and hopefully I'm working towards some good 3D character animation.

Yawn

Here's a rendered facial animation that I worked on this past week.

Hop

So I'm also in a character animation class this quarter and I must say I absolutely love it and the teacher is amazing. The first assignment is a hop from one foot. Here's my 'tweened' version. Feedback is more than welcome!!!

Muybridge Study

So here is one of the projects assigned within the first week back at SCAD. A hand drawn study of Muybridge's photographs. Unfortunately I got the horse, which was quite difficult to draw, but I ended up with a funny little animation to laugh at among friends. So here it is, but the sounds are a little harsh so turn the sound up or down depending on how you feel.

Christmas 2008

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, but I meant to get this one in particular up sooner. Personally I love when animators literally describe our capabilities as animators. My friends did this in their demo reel to Fjorg I think 2 years ago and it was a hilarious (that and the fact that they're all excellent animators!). If you haven't seen it check it out Fjorg Demoreel. I also wanted to comment on this seeing as Apple did a similar gag in their latest holiday commercial.



I found it to be quite funny, but then again I've always been a 'Mac Guy'. These types of animations are clever and remind us of the capabilities we have as animators. Anyways, don't stop animating and have fun with it.

Have Fun: There's no harm in pure entertainment!

I just wanted to give a quick note on animation.  It's Supposed To Be Fun!  Anyone who gets into this field does it because they enjoy doing, so I say there's no harm in creating stupid shorts that can be solely for pure entertainment value.  Life's to short, so live, laugh, animate and enjoy it all.

I only say this, because I feel that it is too easy to get wrapped up in the commercial mentality or the artistic nature of giving meaning to everything we create.  Instead, I propose what some friends and I did which was have an animation night.  Get together with some friends, sit down, and animate a stupid scenario for 20-30 minutes tops.  It's fun and stupid and gets back to the true nature of why most of us decided to become animators.

I leave you with this thought and wish you good times animating.

Aesthetics Final

Here is the final piece I did in my Aesthetics of Animation class. It's a short flash piece that was all hand drawn with a cintique.