Stages of Blocking a Shot

Posting this here as a reminder to myself as to how to approch a shot. If I had a desk I'd tape this over my monitor!

I think a lot of this cna be appliecd to 2d animation as well. Anyways, take a look for yourself:

http://www.shaunfreeman.com/animating_tips/animation_flowchart.htm

Huge Drawing Update!

I finally got around to shooting my drawing board. This is from the summer semester as well as halfway into the current one. I was going to try to organize them by class...eh! I got too much homework ta do!

Some of them came out kind of blurry because of the camera I was using. I'll try to fix that, but in the meantime if you want a closer look at any particular one let me know.

Some of them are from my clothed figure drawing class...and some are from my Drawing for animation class which consist of very fast poses, mostly around 3 to 5 minutes. Anyways, enjoy!

Inspiration...

SKetches....

Some of these are kind of faded on the sides cause I'm using a bad scanner. Should change that once I get my student loans.

Where the heck is the new stuff?

Man! I get a summer break and I still feel so damn busy! Here's a "ring of fire" me and my friend Hanna did together. It's black and grey for masking purposes in Animo. I should have some are and animation up soon including a revised reel...



Untitled from kungfu hampster and Vimeo.

UPDATE!

Here's my revised reel! I have changed the run cycle now so he doesn't move back and forth now. I'll post THAT revision later ;).



Untitled from kungfu hampster and Vimeo.

New stuff soon....

I'm finishing up assisting my professor for the summer semester. Should be some pics of my drawings soon. For now, here's a reward for those of you who check up on me occasionally:

Ratatoullie animation effects

Yeah, Ratatoullie was awesome. But how many people were wowed by the 2d animation effects? Well, I was one...here's an article by one of the artists involved. Man he's awesome!

http://www.gagneint.com/Final%20site/Animation/Pixar/Ratatouille.htm

School begins again...

Summer session has begun again. I'm not taking any classes but I'm assisting one of my professors in a studio class and working my butt off at my part time job. My midpoint review is coming up too. I'd love to post some of my thesis stuff, but I'm kinda worried about copyright and all that stuff. Maybe it's unfounded, but to me the net is kinda like the wild west sometimes! So, just contact me directly if you're curious!

Here's some more drawings for you to enjoy!

New Sketches

Man! I've been drawing almost every day now, so I had a ton of drawings and pairing it down was really tough! Here's some of my stuff...there's a lot more and maybe I'll post it later. I also have some animation I've been working on so I should be posting that soon.