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Author: Olivier Ladeuix

The Walk Challenge – A contest 9

Animation / Portfolio

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The Walk Challenge – A contest

[this article will be revisited everytime I have some updates as well as my Public Review on the Animation Mentor workspace so keep an eye on the following post.]

Since I pretty much do Walk cycles for a living, I got really excited when the Spline Doctors started a contest few weeks ago.

“The walk challenge – a contest”

This should allow me to demonstrate my understanding on walks but also to add a bit of acting. Isn’t it what this challenge is about rather than just a 24 frames cycle?

Because I intend to have some facial animation and since the walk might be used for an article, I thought I would be better off using the Norman rig rather than Bishop or a self made one using abAutorig. Norman is also pretty generic and adapts very well to modifications so it is easy to make it look less…. “stock” 😉

Out of the 4 choices, I chose the Period character from the Victorian era for the following reasons:

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Lee Sullivan 1

Animation / EA / Friends

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Lee Sullivan

An other really talented artist working on my team is Lead Artist and Senior Lighter Lee Sullivan.

Until very recently Lee had Lou Romano’s “Up” colorscript on his desktop so that should give you an idea about some of his inspirations and the kind of quality he is aiming at.

http://www.chameleoninc.co.uk/

A while ago, with Neil Parkinson, they were running a pretty cool blog. Check it out
http://wishingwellstudios.blogspot.com/

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Working at EA Brightlight 1

Animation / EA / Friends

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Working at EA Brightlight

I just found that old video which will introduce you to some of the cool people I work/worked with.

[update] I have been told that the original videos can’t be viewed outside UK so here is a low res Youtube version
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSJJ5LC8Hrc[/youtube]

While I am at it. What about an other video about our neighbours, Little Big Planet creators’ Media Molecule?

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Life drawing, second term just started 1

Drawings / Portfolio

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Life drawing, second term just started

This term I have gone a bit mad and enrolled for 3 classes a week for a total of 7h. I can already see a lot of progress compared to last term. Better composition, better line work, better shading, better proportions, speed. Good thing I didn’t walk out or gave up like other students.

Here is a 2 hours pose. My Thursday tutor keeps telling me that I would be a great forger. That’s not a good thing for him. As artists, we shouldn’t try to copy the model like a camera would.

I don’t care much for the moment, being a camera is still a good thing for me until I have mastered anatomy and proportions.

This term is very exciting, I am sharing two classes with a lot of very talented concept artists and artists from the Video game industry. That is a lot of competition but at least that pushes us to get better.

Steve Jobs has turned evil 2

Miscellaneous

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Steve Jobs has turned evil

So like me you were probably excited by the release of CS5 tomorrow and thought you would be able to quickly develop cross-platform apps using Flash. Well Steve Jobs has decided otherwise.

The Flash blog “Apple slaps developers in the face”

Your “Ifart” clone must be developed using C, C++ and Objective-C said the man in black turtleneck.

Engadget “Iphone lock down”

Engadget: “Steve Jobs responds to complaint about new Iphone SDK rule”

Animation progress reels 2

Animation

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Animation progress reels

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELfmeF2i42g&feature=player_embedded#[/youtube]

If you are addicted to animation progress reels. Check that website out.

Andrei has collected loads of them on his website

Animation Progress Reels

This reminds me that I still haven’t seen “Planet 51” or even bought the “Art of book” yet!!!

“the Dover boys” 1

Animation

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“the Dover boys”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOPyjmB8SI[/youtube]

according to Wikipedia, this is where it all started

The Dover Boys is notable for being one of the earliest examples of stylized animation, a technique which used shape-heavy designs with minimal movement, as opposed to the type of animation done at that time by the Walt Disney studio. In addition, the short is among the earliest Schlesinger/Warner Bros. cartoons to utilize “smear” animation, where characters move with sudden bursts of speed depicted with only a frame or two of a smeared image between two extreme poses. Jones would go on to use similar animation techniques in later cartoons he directed starring Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Stylized animation would later be made famous by the artists at startup animation studio UPA, for which Jones moonlighted to direct the political film Hell-Bent for Election in 1944.

Top 50 greatest cartoons Have you seen them all? Looks like I will have to do some research…

Academy award for best short film from 1930 to 2009