polishing class (Class 06 Week 02)

hey there,

its end week 2 and things are going on smashingly... jason is an awesome mentor... and learing quite alot from him...

now onto the submissions this week... the dialogue has got some minor changes... but i think they are for the better... i think my eyes are pretty much gone for this shot... and i fear i might be entering into the "too much noodle" Zone... i think i should find a better to get some fresh eyes on it...

I am haveing fun with the second shot...  the icecream one... that is the shot where i am learning quite a bit... made some changes... more changes on the way...



the final thing is a quick 2D exploratory sketch for a weight lift...

well thats it for now...

chao

no clue what the title is (Class 06 Week 01 )

hey there,
I know I KNOW!!! the title is weird... but i have no clue what title to give to this post... :D

so we are all set with the new year with my final AM class (and yes i realized i missed last weeks post explanation... [if anyone even cares] will follow later in the post)...

I was supposed to have finished my course by december itself but i took an LOA inbetween term 4 and 5 to join up with Tata elxsi as freelance animator... (oh boy those days were fun... maybe someday i'll put up some of the stuff i worked on :) )

so this term my new mentor is Jason Tylor... Had his 1st qna and it was awesome... cant wait for more!!!

here is what i uploaded this week:



and



as u already noticed the IceScream shot is still not past blocking... it might be splined but its still blocking none the less :( ... The reason is that last week instead of working on my animation i was working as freelance... the shot was fun to do... loved the characters voice.... somehow reminded me of megatron from the transformers... had fun animating it so hey the week was still fun animating...

apart from animation over the new year I enjoyed a nice trek at shivagange (photos those who cant see this add me up in faceybook :D )

well thats it for now
Chao

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