412 meant to be final
Ok, this is meant to be my final but I am struggling some much to clean this up. Anyway, this is where I am so far. I will try to find the time to improve it.
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Drawing
While checking Youtube, I was copying some of the Story Boredom’s caricatures today and realised that it would be better to do my own ones.
That one is not really a caricature but a simple painting I did just to get better at it. It’s a very intuitive drawing, I didn’t really use the Glen Vilppu checklist. I just wanted to test some Sketchbooks brushes.
410 spline
Here is my latest assignment. Still a lot of work to do but I think it is getting somewhere. The obvious errors (floating CD, buried eyes, orange guy frozen at the end) are not the main problem, I will attend to them at polish time.
Studio Soi: Computer Love
Ok this is old news but I hadn’t been checking Studio AKA’s website for quite a while and catching up with their latest work today I found “Computer Love”, a series of online adds from Studio Soi to promote instant messaging software ComBOTS.
Check them here (new link from Studio AKA website)
Editing 101
I don’t have much time right now but I am gonna talk about video editing very soon using as an example one of those 30 seconds Mac/PC Apple campaign and specifically the one called “Better results”. Why that one? well because the girl is hot and it makes my blog more attractive 😉
Close your eyes, think about any of those ads and ask yourself: “how many shot do they use for such and advert?” Just like many things, a good editing is a simple and seamless one. This is what this post is about. How can you make a 30s commercial that has a good pace without being too snappy or too flat?
How yeah the last slide is not part of the ad but I thought it would be a good idea to put it there just to balance things up a bit 😉
Brussels get a make over
I started customizing one of the AM rigs today.
Brussels got a make over from head to toes using my newly acquired photoshop painting skills. Haircut and hears based on Jure Prek’s designs, modeled in 3dsmax and imported as an .obj file.
I am hoping to find the time to work on Bishop as quickly as possible.
You will notice some stretching around the waist area. This is due to the original UVmaps coming with Brussels. I will have to redo the UVs sometimes.
410 blocking+
Here is where I am with 2 characters shot. I still have a some keys to put here and there especially where Bishop goes monologuing then create my eases and time out the whole thing but I am hoping to start splining tomorrow and be on time to deliver a polished version by the end of the week or as a late assignment next week.
The shot is meant to be delivered on sunday this week.
Potapych: The Bear Who Loved Vodka
This is an animation based on a story that ran in the Russian newspapers few years ago.
Potapych the story of a domesticated drunken bear
Nice story, some nice little animation details and a great rendering.
Refreshing and entertaining
Les soeurs jumelles
I couldn’t find sleep this morning and after a very early wake up 4am started drawing on my tabletPC. By the way, Sketchbook rocks. First because the sketching feeling is amaaazzzziiingg even with a 7 years old wacom UltraPad pen and second because the CPU use on my HP 4200 is a stable 20% which is great for the battery life when you are having a coffee at Starbucks.
Because of the wide array of customizable brushes Photoshop CS2 is excellent but the CPU use goes up to 100% which triggers the CPU fan too frequently for my liking.
How about a pickle?
Animation mentor winter 2007 showreel is finally out! Congratulation to all my fellow students who made it. some truely inspiring work here.
The highlights would be in no particular order Jure Prek, Brandon Beckstead, Dan “the Dan” Barker, Mike Stern, Eric Lutha, Deter Brown, Peter Devlin and my ex classmates Ales Mav, Maciek Gliwa, Kickboxer Larisa Kotnik 😉
Some of them have already found employment in big studios and that’s well deserved!
AM Rachel Ito did an amazing work on lighting some of the best shots.