More Drawings...

Having a heck of a time deciding on a thesis project. Here's some sketches I've done lately. For some reason I like rabbits right now....

Few more sketches....

GO BEARS!!!

Sketchbook Update...

Here's some random stuff from my sketchbook.






















There's an artist who does a daily inblot monster. I forget what his name is, but he inspired me to do some of my own.





School starts next week!

My final reel for MS:Animation 1

Right click and download! Please give me feedback!

http://www.designersfrommars.com/GRoss/final_revised_640x480.mov

Disco...Pt. 1

This will be my first attempt at doing a Satuday Night Fever walk cycle. I hope I'll be able to expand this into a few moves. First...the sexy steamroller!



cWalk17a on Vimeo



cWalk17 on Vimeo

Walk Cycles....

i never thought doing a 3d walk cycle could be so difficult! I'm trying to do a couple before my Tuesday class. I'm hoping the more of these I do, the better I get. I think it's called practice but I can't be sure...

I already did one for class and fell flat on my face. Here it is...don't ask what's going on...please...really...just....*sniff sniff*...you're so cruel....



walk2_12 on Vimeo

And here's my next shot. Getting better but still to poppy and not enough weight...practice practice!!!!



walk4_6 on Vimeo

UPDATE: I'm going to try to post some looped clips in a few days...sorry for the short clips!

Walk Cycles....

i never thought doing a 3d walk cycle could be so difficult! I'm trying to do a couple before my Tuesday class. I'm hoping the more of these I do, the better I get. I think it's called practice but I can't be sure...

I already did one for class and fell flat on my face. Here it is...don't ask what's going on...please...really...just....*sniff sniff*...you're so cruel....



walk2_12 on Vimeo

And here's my next shot. Getting better but still to poppy and not enough weight...practice practice!!!!



walk4_6 on Vimeo

Version with frame counter...

Here's a new version with a frame counter in the corner....let's see if it can be read. Converted the keys and working with smoothing it out. I found that the areas where I really tried to break down the curves in linear mode became kinda messy now. The areas where I had maybe two or three poses were much more manageable. I'll have to keep it simpler next time.

I'm running out of space on vimeo, so one of the previous posts might have to be deleted...no biggie.



caveRD3_curves3 on Vimeo

Another test....

So, just for the hell of it I decided to convert to curves a little early. I was surprised to see things working out quite well. I think animating this way is going to be easier for me cause it's more like drawing with paper. Working out the key poses, breaking it down...and then letting the computer do the uncomplicated inbetweening. Once I figure out a simplified work flow so I can do this at a good speed will make animating much easier...



caveRD3_curves1 on Vimeo

Next iteration....

Here's my next run. I switched it to linear keys to clean up my arcs...but there's still some "swimming" happening. 3d is so prone to the swimming effect I think most animators spend all their time just trying to get rid of it. Anyways, if you view it please e-mail me or comment. I'm cleaning up the arcs as we speak and I'll post my progress later tonite...



caveRD3_Linear4 on Vimeo

Starting over....

Sometimes it's better to start over from scratch. Redid the timing. Going to do an experiment and switch to linear to clean up my arcs before converting to splines....here's the stepped pass....please comment...



caveRD3_timing4 on Vimeo

Drawings....

Some stuff from Costume Carnival, my sketchbook and from class.
























UPDATE: I'm sorry about the quality of these images. They're mostly on my big drawing board and I don't have any way to photograph them without getting the shadow of the camera in there. I'll try to do some better ones and replace them. For now, please don't kill me!

Beautiful 2d animation I had nothing to do with....

Found them both on this site...a nice site for those of us who still love 2d animation...

http://handdrawnnomadzone.blogspot.com/

And here's some more animation by James Baxter. He's an awesome animatior that my friend Hanna pointed me too. I was such a Glenn Keane nut I didn't even know who this guy was! He's pretty awesome...

Banned Xbox 360 Standoff Ad

Banned xbox commercial. Funny and unsettling...