There are not enough hours in the day...

As I was saying, we are all working on an "Alien" theme now. Our job this week was to design five characters in a style other than our own. I drew inspiration from the cartoon "Sebastien" which is on Gobelins.fr under animacion.

Also we had to take a shot of The Coolidge corner and draw it in four different styles (Or at least I had to). My favorite is the first one. It reminds me of silent hill.

Yup....

Well my client rejected another animatic. Oh well! Instead my production team class and myself will be working on a whole new concept about aliens. Anyway heres the last animatic I did....meh.

Animation production Team: Round II

So my idea was rejected (The Witch/Cell Phone). But I'm in a new group, and our theme is based off one of the ideas that was pitched to the client. The theme is magic. So I had to interpret the students idea into my own. Below are the character concepts Ive created thus far.

Client Response To My Pitch..

Well my animatic for the theatre was denied. My animatic is classified as "option C".........

" Options C and D do not work for us at all. There seems to us to be a theme way off our mark. We do not want to threaten our audience with extraterrestrials, the devil, or imps of any kind. We want them to be aware of how they disturb other audience members, making it difficult to concentrate on the program, because of the noise or the light. We want a more gentle message, a reminder of courtesy. The Coolidge does not want to be mean to anyone. Think gentle, wry, sardonic---a prod to behave well."

I still think, nothing says get off your phone like the threat of a witch burning.

U.F.OOOOOH YEAH!

Heres a flying saucer I made for my Effects class. The effect is we have to crash a vehicle other than a car. The crash I am working on right now...

Burn The Witch!!

Here are two animatics. one is the first rough draft, and the other is the final revised version. These were made for my Animation Production team class in which we each had to create a preview before the movie of a "no cell phone policy". Our client is The Coolidge Corner Theatre. We should know by 9/24/09, who's idea got chosen to be used..

..........................................................And The Revised Version...................................................................

The Fall 09' Semester Begins...

Alright, the new semester has begun! The classes this semester for me are Advanced 3D, Animation Effects & Animation Production Team which brings me to the artwork below. Below are my storyboard and character sheets for our client in production team (The Coolidge Corner Theatre). This is part of MY proposal, the client will pick from 5 proposals and choose the one they like the best. The story has to consist of either no talking/smoking/texting etc in the theatre or buying a gift card. I think we all chose to go with no talking etc...

Trying to conquer ZBrush

So with the precious time off I have between semesters I have been trying to figure out ZBrush. It has been called the photoshop of the 3d world...Its really cool, If I can just figure out the basics. So far Ive learned how to make normal maps and how to cross pollinate with 3ds Max and learned the tools..Thats about it. Heres a sample of my fooling around in Zbrush with a model of mine from 3ds max.

Swingin' Stitches: Final

ok....This is my animation studio final! I had trouble posting it before because it was a little over one gig. So I mad an account on Youtube. I uploaded the video and I got a e-mail from Sony Entertainment to "maybe" alter the music. Because both the songs "All that Jazz" and "In the mood" are owned by them. Im not going too, I gave the music credits, and Im not distributing this video for profit..

Anyway... working on this project was a nightmare delight! I enjoyed the beginning with story boarding, character turns, walk cycles, script, character sheets, sound fx list, action sheets etc... But then the animating began....and the critiques. In the end I think I may have edited the animation about 15 times. Im just glad its over.

All in all, I would like to go back and tweak a few things, but for now....enjoy

Semester is Finally Over!

Well the summer semester has come to a close as of 8/13/09. Ive passed in all of my work, hopefully I did well. anyway I am going to be posting the finished animations I did this semester. starting with my first ever 3d animation. keep in mind a few things... I'm not a team of a hundred people, I had four other classes, Its my first 3d animation. I executed this project to the best of my abilities! I eventually want to go back into the animation and tweak a few things when I'm better.

Any who, here is my first 3d animation titled "Curse of The Black Diamond", along with a mental ray render i was fooling around with.



"Curse of The Black Diamond"