Animation - Ex12 Change of Emotion

Long time no post! I have just started an Internship at Sony Picture Imageworks in Vancouver so I was kind of busy in the last 2-3 weeks setting up everything. But now I am back and ready to post new Animations and Paintings! LEAAAAARNING

For this one, I tried to push the poses really far, It isn't completely polished but I feel like I am starting to understand Timing a bit more.

As per usual, the 2D version is a preperation for the 3D one.

Animation - Ex11 Flour Sack Kicking a Ball

The last of the flour sacks exercises. What I learned with this character : The importance of weight and characterization through mouvement. I am starting to feel much more comfortable with both 2D and 3D animation! Yay!

Hobbit - Shot 14

Ouch!  So many small objects and details, I had to paint this one with a 1px-7px brush average. It took so much time and I didnt establish my proportions well so the chair was cut to fit the rest :S.  Learning learning learning!

Hobbit - Shot 13

Animation - Ex10 Flour Sack Falling

I am slowly starting to develop a workflow in animation, the fog is clearing up and fun is coming in!

Hobbit - Shot 12

Animation - Ex09 Flour Sack Jumping

I had a really hard time with this one, I need more practice on Non-Human animation. Like Ex08, I used the 2D animation for thumbnails and movement study to prepare the 3D animation. I kind of consider the 2D as pre-production work, and 3D as the ''real animation''.

Animation - Ex08 Flour Sack Waving

The 2D version of this animation is basicly the thumbnails of my 3D version. I did it to understand how a flour sack would move before going straight to 3D.








Flour Sack Rig 2.0 by Bellal Ballout : http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/flour-sack-rig--2

Hobbit - Shot 11

Animation - Ex07 Character Thinking

Painting - Desktop Study!

So I had the brilliant idea to try to paint my desktop wallpaper (Awesome Starcraft 2 art). Since I was wondering why some people start with color only and others start with black and white values first, I tried myself at color first. After 2 hours, I felt it was a weird process but damn interesting and fun.

Everything was done on 1 layer with no color picking.

Original image by the awesome :
Mr--Jack http://mr--jack.deviantart.com/art/Great-One-366566618

Hobbit - Shot 10

I am starting to understand the facial features/shadows. I did however have some problems with the hand and the hair, I need to find a way to do those.

Hobbit - Shot 9

DRAWCEPTION #2. I think that should be the last ''Drawing inside a drawing'' It is really hard to replicate for me, but the composition/lighting is still there! Sorry again Mr. Freeman

Animation - Ex06 Character Blink

Animation - Ex05 Head Turn with Anticipation

Painting - Iron Man

After seeing Iron Man 3, I really felt like painting him. I also consider this a test to see how far I have progressed after painting 8 shots of the Hobbit. At the same time, why not try myself at colors!

I recorded the steps of my painting for personnal pleasure (and LEARNING). All my black and white painting is done on only 1 layer. The color was added on an overlay layer on top of the values. I only use the round brush with opacity on my pen pressure and no shape dynamics.

Animation - Ex04 Simple Head Turn

(The rig I am using for my character animations is Bishop for Maya, so for Copyright reasons, I don't intend to use these animations for my demo reel, they are only exercises. The Bishop Rig is property of Animation Mentor)

Animation - Ex03 Brick Falling

Animation - Ex02 Bouncing Ball across Screen

Animation - Ex01 Bouncing Ball

Hobbit - Shot 8

Hobbit - Shot 7

A drawing in a painting, DRAWCEPTION! (I apologize to Martin Freeman)

Hobbit - Shot 6

Hobbit - Shot 5

I already feel a progression compared to Shot 3!

Hobbit - Shot 4

Hobbit - Shot 3

Hobbit - Shot 2

Hobbit - Shot 1

Here we go! (I was pretty happy the movie started with a candle)

Learning starts now!

School's gone for summer, time to learn, practice and have fun drawing and animating! Because we all know practice makes perfect, my plan is pretty simple : Draw/paint and Animate everyday. I will post my progression on this blog for people to see and to record all I do on the same page.


Of course, learning needs some structure and I have found exercises for me to do. For the painting aspect of my learning, I will do movie studies of the movie The Hobbit.  It is one of my favorite movies of all time and it also happens to be a masterpiece in color, lighting, compositiong, dwarves, orcs, dragons, trees, skies, everything.  I might do some personnal painting between shots if I feel like painting something else than awesomness :).


The animation part is pretty simple. There is a cool list of 51 animation exercises every animators should master on Animator Island : http://www.animatorisland.com/51-great-animation-exercises-to-master/    From bouncing ball to walk cycles to putting pants on, this list covers every elements an animator should know(or learn in my case) and master. I will be doing every exercise in 3D with some of them in 2D when I feel like it (it's all about fun you know!).


I never had a Blog, so I guess I'm learning that too! Yay learning!