The fine art of polish

Something that I'm trying to incorporate into my work flow is polish. Polish is your final pass on your animation, where you go back in and tweak your splines and clean up any bad bumps. It's something that's expected in my classes and on the job I can imagine.

Problem is that there's little documentation on how to polish. I'm hoping someday someone will write a good tutorial on approaching polish on a scene.

Anyways, just for fun, here's my one person dialog exercise before polish and after.


1 Person Dialouge - No Polish from Graham Ross on Vimeo.


1 person Dialouge from Graham Ross on Vimeo.

UPDATE: Here's some good resources I found. Here and Here, both courtesy of Keith Lango.

Black and White films of moving anatomy

I can't embed these videos becuase they're lisensed by Getty images, but I can at least provide a link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7928381862503591651&ei=buleSLeVBJaMrgOM77yKDg&hl=en

It's x-ray clips of bones moving within the human body. The ones on feet are amazing. Does anyone know where they're from?

First walk test....

So since I'm going to the Academy of Art I'm supposed to complete this thing called a "thesis". I know I know...but it's fun to rig and model and light....and then animate!

Anyways, this is my first test with the rig. I'm not even gonna show the front view. I did it pretty fast so it's still kinda bumpy in some parts, but I'm pretty happy that the little guy actually moves! I'll do a more polished one soon. Promise!


First Walk Test... from First and last name on Vimeo.

Keeping Motivated

http://zenhabits.net/2008/06/the-ultimate-guide-to-motivation-how-to-achieve-any-goal/

New(er) Demo Reel

Just did a newer version of my demo reel with a dialog test.


Graham's Updated Demo Reel 5_2008 from kungfu hampster on Vimeo.

Just realized a lot of my portfolio pics are reposts. I'll save the for my portfolio site. I should have that site up and running soon. It'll be meant strictly for potential employers. Yay!

Drawings Part 2

Here's a few more. More ta come!

Drawings

I recently compiled a new demo reel, so I shot a lot of my old drawings and such. I'll be posting a few of em a day, since there's a lot. Here's round one...

Ollie Johnston 1912-2008

New Reel

Just put a new reel together for some internship submissions. Enjoy!


Untitled from kungfu hampster on Vimeo.

Composition in Horton Hears a Who....

Very interesting articleon composition of the frame within Horton Hears a Who

http://virgiliovasconcelos.com/index.php?language=en&sessao=blogger

Animatin'...

I'm working on doing my new reel for intern submissions. Here's a few things I'm working on cleaning up. Of course I'll post the reel once it's done ;)


Untitled from kungfu hampster on Vimeo.


Untitled from kungfu hampster on Vimeo.

Zoo drawings...

Went to a workshop by Joe Weatherly. Check out his site sometime. His book on animal drawing is a must-have!

http://joeweatherly.net/

More sketches...

Trip to the zoo....

Here's some inkblot drawings a a few sketches I made at the zoo recently....

Spring Cleaning...

Just moved and went through a lot of my old drawings and threw stuff out. I might have posted some of this stuff before. I should probably post some of my animation at some point, eh?

Spongebob Voiceover

I think I might have posted this one before...I don't think it's the best thing I've done but for some reason the colors really appeal to me.

One more kiss dear...