I am slowly starting to develop a workflow in animation, the fog is clearing up and fun is coming in!
Friday, May 31, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
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''.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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
Flour Sack Rig 2.0 by Bellal Ballout : http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/flour-sack-rig--2
Monday, May 20, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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
Monday, May 13, 2013
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
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)
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!
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!
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