Ice Scream... blocking (LOA animation)

hey there,
wow the end of the world came and gone... and this too was a bust... sad but i can say i lived through 2 end of the world one in 2000 and now in 2012...

ok guess i am going off track... lets get back to animation business...
its LOA and it means BREAKkkkk time!!!!! but its class 6 and that means its time to hunt for a job... so no break for little old me...

looking at all the stuff i had... I felt like i needed something a bit more cartoony... so started working on the iceycream shot... (the 2d test i posted a while back... http://vimeo.com/54201745 )



the blocking for now is just the kid... havnt concentrated on the ice cream guy... (didnt wanna make it a 2 person shot mostly cause i am lazy and didnt wanna add moving holds :P but officially its "cause i want to give all the screenspace to the kid" )...

hope to get it to some semblance of refining pass... so i can polish it up in the coming term...

well hope to have it up next week...

thats it for now...
CHAO!!!

multiChar Dialogue Close to final (class 05 Week 12)

hey there,
Its week 12!!! HOLY MOLY ROLLY POLLY DOLLY COLLY MOLY... oh wait I typed  moly already... end of class 5 and onward to class 6!!! this was a really fun term!!! JD was just Awesome...
gonna miss his awesome qna... speaking of which heres how JD ended his final qna...

an armed phyco dino riding a killer shark... thats pretty much sums up the awesomeness of his qna's :D

as usual to every term i made a quick thank u animation for my mentor

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36593087/thankuJD.mov

and finally my progress reel...

onward to final sem... bet wait... its almost xmas... that means instead of the just 1 week off between terms looks like we gonna have 2 weeks off O.O... last year during the 2 weeks i dissappeared to mumbai... but unfortunatly i dont have any plans to go this time... so maybe i concentrate on my reel... gonna work on trying to convert that 2D test into a 3D test... hopefully if all goes well and i dont get too lazy by end of the week i might have the blocking up on this blog...

well thats it for now...

chao

multi character dialogue Close to final (Class 05 week 11)

hey there,

wow its already week 12... time flew by... its been almost 18 months ago that i joined AM and started my journey... I look back and see the progress... and I am happy... I am more confident with my abilities as animator then i was before... (not bragging but just saying :P ) there are still alot of things that i need to learn... need to try out... need to discover...

here is my upload for week 11





this week will be rendering time :D and then onward to class 6 YAY!!!


that's it for now

Chao

Multi Character Polishing (class 5 week 10)

hey there,

not much to write this week... things are going on... just 1 more week left... time to stare right into the monitor and try to get the arcs working... (and also time to curse the eternal GIMBAL LOCK :D )




well thats it for now...
chao

multi character Dialogue Polishing (class 05 week 09)

hey there,
this time i have a genuine reason to be posting late :) and funny thing is its not because i am lazy.... (well I am lazy but that isnt the reason this time)

soooooooo heres the long winded explanation... home renovation... PC dismantled cause room needs painting...
think that was long enough...

wow its almost week 10 now... and i have been working on this dialogue for close to 8 weeks (week 01 dont really count cause i was only hunting for a dialogue that week :P ) and have about 2 weeks left (not really counting week 12 since i wanna step waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back from the shot...

some things i am happy with some things i KNOW need to be worked on... but quite happy with the progress learnt some really new things... (like make the  BISHOP's #!@#*&^%!@#%!!! hand smaller)... a really nice lecture by JD about hands and how not to make them IKey... was funn... the jist is this... remember how the knee always follows the foot... the same can be said about the relation of palm and elbow... always keep in mind that any movement on elbow affects the plam of the hand (when the hand is resting on something i.e) the reverse is simple since when we move the hand the elbow reacts but one tends to forget to move the hand when the elbow moves (due to body movements ofcourse :) )

btw this is a bit late in post but a fair waring this is gonna be a fairly longish post... since I had other things beside my assignment this week...


now anyway back to the main animation... to me I have done as much as i can and gonna spend the next to weeks just polishing and try to get more arcs in there as i can...





ok apart form that i kinda got a nice idea for a small pantomime... again this was inspired by a the talks with my mentor in the qna...

I was looking at my work and saw that there was not much variation in the style... (or for that matter age :) ) so i wanted to try out something different (maybe during the break week :) ) something more cartoony... was watching Horton hears a who and i kinda noticed the character mortan so i got around to frame by frame his movement and I LOVED IT!!!! ( i wish i had genndy's hotel Transylvania too but the movie isnt relesed in india till late december and no clue when the dvd comes out!!!)...
so i did a quick 2d test on the weekend...





now i am hoping to try and get the same in 3D... and here is a quick character sheet of little timmy

since i got the animation down to 4's (some places 2's and in the big move on 1's ) in pencil test itself it would be intresting to see how i can translate it from 2D to 3D... I was always impressed on how Jason Rayne (founder of Ianimate) did it when he used to slove his animation in 2D itself...

hopefully if i dont get lazy again i should be able to put out atlest blocking + by end of the break week (which starts in about 3 weeks from now) that i can work on in my next class which is ALLLLLLLL about demoreel...

well thats it for now...
CHAO