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The Walk challenge – A contest 02 6

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The Walk challenge – A contest 02

update Wednesday 13th

Took on board some feedback, rough revision before going to work.

Monday 11th update:

As I implied few days ago, I don’t think that shot has much entertainment value but I will stick with it since there is no time to change the idea entirely.

Here is the full blocking. The head should be rotating towards the women earlier but I don’t really want to mess with my constraints for the moment.

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The Walk challenge – A contest 01 – Layout

Taekwondo best video 3

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Taekwondo best video

If you don’t know about that awesome Korean martial art, check this out
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOQa_OlH5S8&feature=related[/youtube]

I am actually red belt in Taekwondo but switched to Thai Boxing due to the dominant style in UK, ITF vs the Olympic WTF

The Walk Challenge – A contest 9

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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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“Shower power” short film

Working at EA Brightlight 1

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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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“Shower power” short film

Life drawing, second term just started 1

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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.