Just wanted to share these drawings. I won this poster through an internet draw. It is signed by Pixar animators; Victor Navone and Aaron Hartline.
Here is the People's Choice of recent Aniboom competiton: Saatchi & Saatchi's Nothing's Impossible Challenge. What is wonderful about it, beside the content is; it is a stop-motion animation done by drawing on lots of napkins.
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A touching piece by Rauch brothers: "86-year-old World War II veteran Joseph Robertson fought at the Battle of the Bulge. Over 60 years later, he still can't forget one soldier he killed there."
Germans in the Woods from Rauch Brothers on Vimeo.
I have textured the guy according to the tutorial. I have also rigged the character with an auto-rigging solution. It is an easy process but it takes time to get used to it; defining exclusion sets, adjusting widgets etc. If I can learn a little bit lighting and facial-rigging, off I go to building my set, converting my designs into cg and finishing my short.
I'm trying to learn character modeling in Maya through a digital tutors title: Creating cartoon characters. Well, I'm in favor of specializing only at animation and always trying to improve myself by doing animation tests but modeling is a bit necessity when it comes to customizing characters, modeling props, getting more familiar with the 3d software; whether you're making a short film or a small animation test. I'll try to learn a little bit lighting and rendering too if I can finish texturing the character, which seems as a little bit tedious process according to the videos.
This is a short that I prepared for the annecy youtube contest. It is my first 2d animation. I think the idea/story was good, but just not very well executed due to the lack of experience&technique. The bad parts are: I tried to keep the character alive by drawing similar poses during the holds but they were too many and caused lots of wobbling. The connection between sequences aren't that good. Same for some of the jumping animations. Also, I shouldn't have placed same jump patterns one after another. I didn't bother much with music and sounds so they are not appealing as well. But it was a good experience in terms of motivating myself and getting used drawing on tablet pc, which may help me later in planning my cg shots.
In conclusion, as I said before, the idea was good but I should have spent more time on it to make it a successful piece. Anyway, in the end, experience is experience and I'm happy with it.
This video was one of the screenings of Siggraph 2008. It was made by Jellyfish Pictures for the BBC documentary: Fight for Life. It is great in terms of both vfx and music so just wanted to post here:
Just run into these. Cute and appealing clay animations from Aardman Studios for Animal Planet TV. These are good examples of how you can make very clear and strong gestures with considerably less poses. In a way, they show how important the golden (storytelling) poses are. They serve to a good purpose in terms of the messages they carry as well.
It isn't about animation but it was just too good to pass. A perfect song from a perfect voice: James Maynard Keenan.
