Week 2 Assignments!
Hi guys!
This week has been great. I am learning a lot. A lot of trials and errors makes for better understanding, IMO. This is what happened to me with the file that the sack hops towards the cam. Initially, I did each hop for 5 frames, but it felt slow.. That made me do it in 4 frames and it seems fine now. But I am not too satisfied with it.. I dont know, but something feels amiss. This is what I look forward to see what keith would say.
Anyhooooo… heres the files..
The dive board :
The cam hop :
Couldnt find time to do the corrections to last week’s shots. Hope to do that this week. Anyways… thanks for the cool crits last week! Looking forward for more!
DJ
Thumbnailing and simple drawing for animation
Hi guys!
I put up a quick little “Build” tut for simple quick sketching of characters for pose tests for animation. Please bear with me and my “searching-for-words” speak in the tut. Its pretty hard to draw and talk at the same time at 3 AM without a couple of days’ sleep before doing so. I think its more of the right side and leftside brain activities at the same time. Its pretty hard to do that!!
Neways… check this out! Any suggessions on how I can improve my own drawing skills and any other simple methods for doing this? If so, just comment! I really need all the learning I can get!
Disclaimer : I am no way responsible if this video totally upsets you or makes you crazy or makes you loose all your drawing skills or makes you pull your hair out.. I must be credited, though, if it helps you.. 😉
Now that the disclaimer is away… here we go!
Vimeo:
my method for drawing simple pose tests for animation on Vimeo
I am not a great artist by any stretch of imagination.. but this is just me trying to be of some help to the animation friends of mine. If this helps you.. great! If it was just a waste of your time, forget that you ever seen it… 😉
my time in paradise is over!! :(
hmm..
sad news..
I have been expelled from AM. I recieved an email saying that my enrollment has been terminated cuz ive violated some rules of AM. Well, they have a 10 percent reason to do so.. but i dont agree. what happened is that one of my students, hemendra, did some animations with AM like rigs that he built. He did it cuz he was so inspired by AM’s works. AM thinks I gave him their rigs. But I havent. Ive emailed bobby with the rigs that he used, but to no avail. All in all, I didnt give him the rigs. So, I aint guilty. So, I aint worried. I take it as a blessing of God in disguise. Lets see what this does to me…
Neways. Its been wonderful being in AM, being part of the community. Met some great friends. Awsome mentors. Learnt a lot. I wont be able to ever repay them for the animation knowledge they imparted. I understand their concerns. As always, I accept it as part of my Karma. No big deal. Ive many other important things to do other than animation in life. Animation is just one way of earning my bread, which I can do even now. I still have APT of keith lango, which is as good as AM if not better. All I have to do now is to put efforts to learn with keith, and lo, i will be a good animator!
Neways, this means that you wont be seeing any more AM tests from me (not that i have posted many of them) but you will see more of my animation tests.
Still looking forward for the light at the end of the tunnel,
DJ
DJ Animator 