Animation - It's Not Your Fault

It is my fault for not posting for so long, however. :( Anyway, here's another pencil test animation assignment I did. I had to take a character with a muzzle and animate it to a sound clip from a movie. I got this one from "Good Will Hunting". Here is the result:

Animation - I Will Not Apologize

Assignment: Take a line from a movie and animate a character acting out the line. I snagged this quote from the movie "Magnolia". I went through a lot of pain and anguish trying to get this as close as possible to the way I hoped it would look. So here it is to behold in all of its oddity. Enjoy!

The Motorcycle, Boy

*UPDATE*

I've created a 360 degree rotation movie of the motorcycle. I hope you enjoy looking at it as I did making it, which was a lot. :D



*UPDATE*

I've added some colour and texture to the motorcycle. Phew! On to the rest of my projects...



My first assignment in my Maya modeling class - a hard-surfaced model (no characters, etc). This was based somewhat on an image I found of a Yamaha YZF-R1 cycle. Hours and hours later, this is the result. I'll throw up a full turn-around movie as soon as I can. I also hope I can add textures soon. But for now, enjoy!


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Autodesk Maya 2008 - Polygons only

Life Drawing - Episode IV

A new semester, a new set of drawings of naked people. The story continues, the battle rages on. My strive for improvement continues...enjoy! By the way, the last couple of images are from the muscle test I did recently. One of them was the one I submitted. Can you guess which one?




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Talk Glad

Here's my lip sync animation assignment where I had to animate lips talking to a line from "Toy Story". Lips are flapping and sound is coming out...but does it make sense?

Walk Mad

Here's a simple loop animation of an angry walk. I kinda liked this one, and most of my classmates did. I hope you do too...

Christmas Elf Gift - in 3D

*UPDATE*

I think I'm done! I added the hair, gave him a belt and a box to hold...so now the way he's standing makes more sense. Anyway, here's my other gift to you guys. Sorry about the delay. :)



*UPDATE*

I've added colour and textures to my model, but unfortunately my computer here can't handle hair when I try to add it. (arg!) So until I get back to my good computer, here's my elf so far in all his bald wonderment...



I thought I'd post my progress I make on my elf model in Maya as it comes along. Here's the base model without textures and hair. I'll keep you posted as more details develop. Too bad I couldn't get this done for Christmas day. Oh well...enjoy!



Maya 7.0 PLE

Christmas Elf Gift

Here's a little something extra I did for Christmas. I had hoped to make a 3D model of this idea, but I won't have enough time to get it all done, so I'll post this. Anyway, happy Christmas to all!



Pencil scan, coloured in Photoshop.

Goodbye to gouache...?

In the 1.5 years I got to know gouache, there's still so much about it I don't know, so much we could learn about each other...oh well, time to move on, I guess. Here are the tonal studies and colour thumbnails for my final painting assignment for the semester. Maybe gouache and I will work with each other again in the future...


Pencil on paper.



Gouache on watercolour paper.



Gouache on watercolour paper.

Alive and Empty - Colourized Version

Quick colour sketches of my kitchen layout in a previous post. I think gouache is starting to warm up to me, but my class will soon be going digital (Photoshop). Just when gouache and I were starting to get to know each other...



Gouache on Watercolour paper.

Everyone else is doing it, so...

...why shouldn't I post my animations on my blog too? :) Here's the first one I did this semester - a flour sack riding water waves in a small boat. Everything about animation I learned about in first year...but was afraid to show.

Life Drawing - End of Episode III

This is how much I would say I have improved in life drawing over the semester. Is it a lot? Is it a little? Is it not at all? I'll let you, my audience decide. I hope you approve. :D



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Alive and Empty

Yet another set of layout tonal sketches for my painting class. This one was an interior study, so I thought I'd do something a bit more...comfortable. Anyway, here they are to behold and enjoy. More to follow...




Pencil on printer paper

The birds and the beasts were there...

So I went to the animals...errr...the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, and as usual it was a lot of fun and frustration getting some drawings to be proud of. My quest for improvement never ends, as it should, but sometimes you wish it could be just a bit easier. Anyway, here are a few quickies and longer ones I liked more than the others. More to come...



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Behind abandoned lines...

Quickie doodle I did of my idea of being at the front lines of an abandoned fortress...or at least it's supposed to be one. Basic story is it's been overtaken quite a while ago, but it's left there to rot (as it already is), and nobody bothered to either rebuild it or demolish it. Hopefully, somebody will... anyway, in theory, this will be turned into a revised final layout. More on that later, as details develop...



Pencil on animation paper.

In faded colour...

More progress on my background design stuff. These are simple colour ideas I had for my design that I'll decide from for the final look. Colour is faded, but they gave me a few ideas. Someday we'll get along, gouache...



Gouache on watercolour paper.

Life Drawing - Episode III

Sometimes when you think you haven't learned anything, or you think you didn't improve in your work, you look back a bit at your old stuff and think, "oh...yeah, I guess I did." Funny, isn't it? Anyway, here are some life drawings from the beginning of this school year that I will compare to some others I'll do much later in the year. Enjoy!



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