Animation with a moustache

The animation with a .... je ne sais quoi!

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That’s some fancy PC you have got! 0

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That’s some fancy PC you have got!

for those of you wondering what kind of equipment you need for Animation Mentor, here is a picture of my current computer. Yes it is fancy but not really in a cosmetic kind of way 😉

What you need is basically a motherboard and CPU for less than £100. £50 worth of Ram, a £50 Gforce graphic card, a £40 HD, a £15 power supply and let’s go a bit crazy with a £25 DVD burner dual layer 😉

You might want to get a trolley to be able to move the pc around without disturbing the layout! For the people with very sharp eyes, yes it is resting on an old VCR and a piece of cardboard for insulation and yes the MOBO is a bit big so the DVD burner is laid over the PCI port…..


behold the fancy equipment

State of the Feature Animation industry in 2006 0

Animation Mentor / Business of animation

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State of the Feature Animation industry in 2006

There is a bit of discussion going on about the state of the animation industry at the moment so I have decided to upload some figures collected on www.boxofficemojo.com website for people to think about. Have a look at them, this is fairly interesting and will be the material for a future post about the so-called “demise of 2d animation“.


Wordwide total gross of the major Animation features
correction for Emperors’ new groove, read 169 gross wordwide


Wordwide total gross of the major CG productions since 1995


Wordwide total gross of the major 2d/Stop motion productions since 1995 and before.

Olive

106 assignement and 105 revision 0

Animation Mentor

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106 assignement and 105 revision


the animation looks okay, I am surprised Cassidy didn’t talk about the slight slowness of the base in his E-Critique.


looks pretty good, Cassidy gave me few things to work on, THIS WILL NEVER END!!!! ;-). Yeah, this is what I have experienced so far, learning animation is a never ending process. I have spent nearly 40hours on that animation so far… Could that be the reason why we, as Animation Mentors’ students, only upload our assignement at the last minute? It could be the fear of people pointing at our mistakes which would mean more work to do. Well if you only have 20 hours to devote to Animation Mentor a week, make the most of it and take eventual revisions in consideration. If you don’t have time you don’t have time.

Session 105 0

Animation Mentor

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Session 105


Version 1.01 was a little bit too adventurous, so here is version 2.01.
The rig also doesnt’ give us much freedom so I am gonna stick to something simpler.

Session 105 Q&A BB version 1.01 0

Animation Mentor

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Session 105 Q&A BB version 1.01

I know I look weired!! 6.30 am and I hadn’t slept yet!!! Cassidy demonstrating Richard Williams “stretch before landing” tip.

Planning for this week’s assignement, Bouncing ball over-achiever version 1.01

Animation Mentor 104 0

Animation Mentor

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Animation Mentor 104


Here is my planning for Session 104, Two bouncing balls with different weight.

And here is the animation….. As you can see….. the timing on the planning has NOTHING TO DO with the final animation 😉 This is I think what we call the learning process 😉

Animation Mentor 103 0

Animation Mentor

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Animation Mentor 103


Here is my revision for last week assignement, I won’t dare posting this week’s bouncing ball and Excited pose as both are pretty crap. Wait for this week revision;-)

Animation Mentor assignement 102 0

Animation Mentor / Drawings

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Animation Mentor assignement 102



Sketches for my assignement at various locations: Snooker Club, Kick boxing class, skilled people skateboarding and below is Stu pose, based on sketch 2. I went a bit over the top with Stu pose I must admit. I was looking for something very graphical and tried to draw S curves everywhere even on the spine which worried Cassidy a lot 😉 I will try to give him a more Health and Safety compliant pose then.