demoreel_V02 (class 06 week 11)

hey there,

There was a famous quote that keeps coming to my mind recently.. "All good things must, eventually come to an end" ...

and so ends my 18 months training of AM with this final submission... i still got 1 more week with my mentor... but no more grading... no more critique... no more sunday deadline (unless the place i might get into has sunday deadlines :) )

have a lot of personal things going on... and this isnt the place to put in but bascially it just means I have to hunt fr a job like i never hunted before...time to put all the knowledge to use...

but then does it mean this blog has come to an end??? i hope not... this blog i started with the sole purpose of seeing my progress... i can look back 2 yrs ago and see what i was doing... heck i can look back as far as 2007 when i truly started my journey as an animator... i hope to keep doing new shots... i have soo many unfinished projects (including the super secret LOA project that i started during my LOA but never got it past week 2... )

lets see where life will take me... (being too philosophical for past few weeks but hey i am under alot of stress.. so :P )

here is the final submission...





as usual at end of term i do a small thank u animation to my mentor... just to let them know how much i appreciate their hard work... (teaching this block head is really really hard work :) ) i do a small 2d animation ...

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

i dont spend much time and the animation is crude but its the thought that counts right :)


well thats it for now... next week i might post up all the thank u notes i made for all the 6 awesome mentors i had...

CHAO!!!

Demoreel TIME!!! (class 06 Week 10 )

Hey there,

Well as mentioned in previous posts... its almost time for the end... ( and no end of the world didnt happen as expected in december most likely cause i took a leave of absence from animation mentor and so instead of finishing it up by december 21st... i am gonna finish my course in about  a weeks time...

well here is a 1st pass of my demo reel...




lets see what shots gets picked up and what shots gets bumped off :)

thats it for now

CHAO!!!

polishing Close to final (Class06 Week 09)

hey there,

So this loooooong journey is closeeeeee to completion... its already end of week 9 so that means theres just 3 weeks left...
funny thing is I am scared and excited at the same time... I am scared cause now I have to go out into the world hunting for a job (which from the looks of things are getting harder to find :D ) and excited cause now that I look back i have learned sooooo much and have grown soooooo much (both in the capacity as an animator and also physically got fat :P ) Am more confident on my ability and thanks to Tata elxsi I know I can survive in an professional envirnoment (i had struggled quite a bit when i was in keyframes in cochin one of the main reasons i joined AM :) )

well too much reminiscing... i'll keep this short... here is the progress of all the shots... have to start rendering them (*sigh* one never had to do that few years back :'( oh industry how u have grown )




next week will by 1st pass of my reel... lets see how it turns out...

thats it for now
Chao

polishing AnimJam among other things (Class 06 Week 08)

hey there,

this has been an intresting week... as i mentioned last week i started working on a new shot using spiderbot unfortunatly i havnt completed blocking it (not much time with me working on 6 different shtos at same time all of it on polishing stage...)

here is the upload for this week


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also over the weekend thanks to a friend of mine i got a test in prana studio... it was an interesting test had lot of fun over the weekend doing it (sadly it meant i had to work on sunday but... oh well... ) finally got to use malcom... and its a good rig... and i mean really goood rig... its a really really good rig (once u get over the fear of over 500 control curves on it :D) i didnt get a chance to push the rig to its limit (since it was a test after all ) hope i can try out malcom and bonnie rig at some time in future... (more things on my animation to do list :'(   )

sadly i cant post the test up on net...so i guess it stays in my hard disk for now...


speaking of hard disks... another awesome thing happend this weekend... my good old harddisk crashed (luckily day after submitting my work to the HR ) i did lose a great deal of date but luckily none of the important stuff.. it was a good thing that i back my work up every day (or atleast quite often) onto my external drive... thought i lost my secondary drive (the 1TB one which was secondary to the 500GB one ) it ws still weird that it wouldnt boot up even thought the hard disk containg windows was connected properly so i had to reinstall windows (thats when i found out really) so now in the process of reestablishing all the customization i made to my windows... though it did give the oppurtunity to do a clean start and just install the stuff i need... but still lot of work... and lot of work left to do...


well thats it for now...
chao

p.s being tech savy rules... thanks to singing into chrome bar i never lost any of my bookmarks... so as soon as i installed chrome and signed in again i got back my old preferences... YAAY!!!

polishing and more polishing (class 06 week 07)

hey there,

this week was very different... since Jason (my mentor :D ) was unavailable this week so I had Dana Boadway fill in for him...
it was quite a fresh eye on my shots...




apart from this I kinda started working on a new shot... it kinda started more as just an expriment (same thing can be said with Ice-Scream shot ) using a spiderbot rig is really challenging... hope to get the blocking done so its kinda good for upload maybe in a weeks time r so :)

well thats it for now
Chao