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Monday, November 29, 2010

Bottle Lift (Blocking plus)

This is a traditional weight lift exercise, i wanted to do something more entertaining than this, but at least i'm really enjoying working on this one, my mentor is pretty happy with it and that's a good thing. I just discovered with this exercise the power of putting a good amount of effort in the planning and blocking, everything else flows much smoother, hitting the spline button was not painful at all with this one.

Monday, November 22, 2010

"Horror Book" Semi-Polished

Still have to do some corrections my mentor addressed, i think i'll try to do them after the term ends. This animation was very difficult since i didn't have a side video reference, but it came out ok i think. Still needs more polish. Btw, don't ask about the "whatever that is…oh…a convenience piece of furniture he has on his house" as my mentor said". I'll work on it when i get the time, it's not absolutely necessary though.

Monday, November 8, 2010

"Horror Book" (Blocking)

Can't believe i forgot about my little blog, this past few weeks have been the hardest, but also the ones i've enjoyed the most. I did some bad crappy blocking which i had to redo 2 times, but finally i have something i like, still rough of course, it's rough until refined, so as you see i've been failing a lot, and that means i'm learning, wohooo!. I love animation a little more everyday. Oh and there's a blooper somewhere in the shot haha.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Kung Fu Shot Splined

This is the final version of my Kung Fu shot, at least for now, it still needs some work but i ran out of time unfortunately, at least i think it's looking decent, but still needs a little more life, more dragging in some areas, more exaggeration in the poses and maybe some more contrast in timing. Maybe a nice render too, and of course fix the horrible knee pops, but for now i have to move to my next assignment, my "horror book" shot :). Let's see how that goes, i really really want to make this one look awesome.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Shaolin Kung Fu (blocking)

This is my new shot and my first post for term 3!, still very rough, i didn't even put as many breakdowns as i'm used to, but i think it's enough to sell the idea and i got the major keys and breakdowns in there, i'll add more breakdowns and will try to make the poses stronger and refine the timing and spacing more as my mentor pointed out. Overall satisfaction for this blocking = 6.5/10, that means i'll have to work harder this week :).

Friday, September 24, 2010

"Spanish Stewie" Final Render

Here's my "Spanish Stewie" :), like "Spanish Buzz" from TS3, but way less cooler, lol!, this is the final shot rendered, i'm about to start the 3rd quarter and wanted to make a few improvements, and to make Stewie more like a flamenco dancer. Too bad i have to move on, there are still some things i wanted to improve, but i guess that's it for "Spanish Stewie", i really enjoyed working on this assignment.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

12 Amazing Short Films

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These are my 12 favorite short films available on the internet, it was a hard task choosing the best ones from over a 100 i have bookmarked, so they're the favorites from my favorites, :D. I kept big studios short out of this, they've been well promoted, and you've probably seen them already. These shorts were not chosen because they have great animation, or awesome storytelling, or kickass lightning (which most of them have), i picked them for just one reason without overanalyzing, i love them.

There are 2D, 3D and Stop Motion films in here, some have tons of awards others not so much, some are made by just one person others by many people, i even picked one with bad animation, but has a great story in my opinion (i'm not saying which one xD). It's a shame i had to leave a few others out, but i wanted to keep this post down to just 12, maybe i'll post some more later.

Short films are my best source of inspiration and this is my little tribute to them.

Enjoy!.

Skhizein