OMG!!!!

Its been looooooooong time since I posted here as I was super busy and partially lazy and that's definitely not a good thing. So, the title of this post is meant for two things, one I'm posting after so long and two which made me write this post and has inspired me to get back completely here like before and that is the NEW BRAVE TRAILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its been about an hour since I first saw the trailer and by now I've already seen it 10 times and I get goosebumps everytime I watch it. June 22nd seems like an eternity now. I wish I had a time machine more than ever.
Everything in the movie is sooo perfect. Love the animation, awesome. Characters, no words. Textures, mind blowing. Concept/Plot, fascinating and mysterious. Accent, Epic.
I'm gonna share it here and I highly recommend to watch in 1080 pixels and loud volume and I'm gonna go watch it again!
Enjoy!

You really want to look at this

Another awesome link from Spugnella
This website has a great collection of references which can be used for animation. Really great stuff.
Click here to go there...

This is Beautiful

OVERTIME


Overtime from ouryatlan on Vimeo.

Animation Insiders

Found this at Spugnella. Animation Insiders is a book every animator wants, it is collection of all the cool tips and tricks and experience and so much more from 13 gems of animation and the icing of the cake is its free to download....click here to download

Week 3 contd...

So, based on the planning of bouncing ball animation I posted on previous post, here's what I came up with

And for the other assignment, I drew sketches of poses that shows EXCITEMENT and here they are from which I selected the circled pose/pose no.19 for Stu which follows after the sketches....

Week 3

Its week 3....yay and I'm late for this post. I was busy with planning my this week's assignment. So, this week's assignment is actually there are two assignments this week or rather three, no maybe four...yeah technically four.
First off, we're supposed to draw few poses that shows EXCITEMENT, now that's a good assignment right but the problem with that is almost all the pose that I can think of for this that reads clearly are a bit of a cliche, still I', gonna try to think something different and original, so that's first assignment.
Second is to select your favourite pose from above and pose it Stu like we did last week, I really posing Stu and the feedbacks that follow.
Third is, wait I'll tell you the fourth one first, makes the third assignment easy to understand, yeah so the fourth one is a bouncing ball which has to be within 50-100 frames.
and so the third one is your planning sketch of the fourth assignment or the bouncing ball. I'm almost done with this one and I'm gonna get reviews for it in today's q&a with Chad. So, here's what I've done with planning

Although I did this in my sketchbook first but it dint look that clear when I took a picture because I have a crappy camera but I like the look of it so, I'm post it here.

Yes, the text is digitally added as you can see, its not clear at all in the picture.

So, now I'm gonna work on my first assignment so I can get reviews for that too today.

Ciao!

Its all Gobelins for this post

These guys they understand animation as an to its root. I just love their work, found these student reel from different blogs and websites. They are so creative and different with both 2D and 3D. They have defined a new style within 2D and I love that. So, here are some of their works!


Who's Afraid of Mr Greedy ? from maxime mary on Vimeo.



Inka Bola by Gobelins from Kreatif360 on Vimeo.

Blown aren't you....me too!

Q&As

So, without question it was an awesome q&a with Chad as usual, the guy knows so much of stuff...he told us about the principles of animation, about what defines a good pose, how line of action works, how do you capture a good pose when you drawing live and so many more things.

We had two more actually three more, I couldn't attend one because it was at my 3:30am and by 2 I couldn't keep my eyes open so I had to sleep, it was a tech q&a with Kevin Freeman, I really wish I'd had attended it.
So, lets talk about the other two....

First Mike Gasaway
woah...this guy is full of energy, he moved to a new place a day before and the next day, needless to say he wasn't settled at all...and the next day he's doing a q&a with us....how awesome is that!
He talked about so many things, learned so much, got so much info, it was great!
So, we're gonna have a q&a with him next week again....can't wait!

Then it was with Kenny Roy...
I am a huge fan of his website and his book and we had a q&a with him...I was so excited. He's so inspiring and like he says it, workflow-maniac. He gave a very nice and important advice, you're not your animation, you're your workflow....makes so much sense and the analogies he used for that was great. He sure knows how to make a student understand and 100% of what he says.....he rocks!

I had to post about this....it was greattttt!!!!

Done with my week 2 assignment

I selected pose no. 20, I was really confused before about which one to select, so I tried posing Stu in couple of poses I drew and after a lot of tweaking from the wonderful feedbacks from my fellow AMers, I liked this one the best...

Week 2

So, this week's assignment which is technically first assignment as well is to do live drawing of people you see in public places and select your favourite among them and duplicate that pose on Stu....here are few of my sketches...I'll be glad to see your feedbacks and also tell me which one do you like to help me select a pose for Stu....

My wacom sketches..

So, I gotta new wacom Intuos 4 tablet around 15 days back and I haven't really used tablets before, so I wanted to start getting used to it and also I dint draw for more than year. Bingo! I started drawing on my tablet to work on both the things. I drew from already made Stu poses and pictures and few of them are also imaginary. They are supposed to be darker than this, tried changing their Levels in Photoshop but dint really work for me so I posted them as they were. I shall keep in mind to make it darker from now.  So, in between packing, shifting, unpacking and getting settled in new place, I couldn't do much but these are what I came up with...

And while I was playing around with pen and tablet.....

A Golden Link
Any Guesses???

Well this is link to download the pdf file of "A System For Planning and Timing Animation" by one and only, one of the best animators alive....GLEN KEANE!!!


here it is....enjoy!!!

http://www.animationmeat.com/pdf/featureanimation/Glen_Keane_Animation.pdf

and here's another Arrietty Trailer in English, found it in Spugnella....

New Miyazaki Movie

Can't wait for this one....I just love Miyazaki movies!

Awesome q&a with Shawn Kelly

So, I finally get to meet Shawn Kelly.....He's sooooooooooooooo amazing and inspiring and super cool. I can't tell you what he spoke of in the q&a because the rule is "what happens in q&a, stays in q&a".....So whatever he talked about or whatever he did or showed....only the people who attended it will know....and who din't attend it, you've missed one of best Q&As ever....you should now just wanna kill yourself since you missed it....lol

I really hope I get to meet him again very soon!

This is combination of 2D, 3D and stop motion, done by Amnesty International, I'm in love with the way it has been shown...

Avatar 2(My Big Fat Pandora versus the Deathly Hallows Striking back at Muriel's Lethal Weapon:Reloaded!) Trailer

Its here

This is Outstanding

An Amazing Sculpture Artist...

For close to 20 years, Damon Bard has been working as a freelance artist in the entertainment industry primarily as a sculptor but also as a designer of characters and creatures. Since then, he has contributed to nearly 30 films and other various projects during his career.

So, Finally it starts....

Yeah, I know it started yesterday but yesterday I was busy checking it out so I'm updating here today....
So, my mentor is Chad Stewart and I have 15 classmates. Its a huge diversity. Chad's great, had first q&a with him today, he's been in industry for over 19 years and animated in movies like Tarzan, Stuart Little 2, Fantasia, Open season, Polar Express and so many more. Learning from someone like him is gonna be so much fun. No assignments as such for this week, just gotta check every nook and cranny of the AM student website. I'm loving this already that I've reduced my sleep from 8 hours to 5 and planning to reduce it further and produce some good animations. So, from now I'm gonna start posting all my works in progress and finished works and try to get as much feedback as I can for them.

Anyway, gonna write again soon....

Keep Animating!!!

Ciao!

Pixar Animation Style Characters for 'Ghostbusters'

Source: firstshowing

 

 

 

More on this....

Some really good sites for free maya resources

Specially MEL Scripts:

ttp://www.aaronkoressel.com/index.php?nav=tools
http://www.creativecrash.com
http://simplymaya.com/index.mhtml
http://www.noir.org/Melscripts.html
http://www.lluisllobera.com/MEL.html

Found these images at Art of Disney Animation website

More Brave Artwork


Lord Macintosh :
 

Merida :

The Wise Woman :

La reine Elinor : 

AWESOME right....!!!

I love the concept of this short film...so touching!

By Doni Permedi

and great animation too!
A must watch....

Now that's BRAVE....

Found this on Entertainment weekly....

This weekend, Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2 hits theaters, an international spy caper that looks high on whizbang fun — but before that film begins, audiences will get their first peek at the teaser trailer for Disney/Pixar’s next animated feature, Brave, due June 22, 2012. It’s Pixar Animation Studio’s first fairy tale fantasy, and it marks yet another change of pace for the venerable dream factory. “What we want to get across [with the teaser] is that this story has some darker elements,” director Mark Andrews tells EW. “Not to frighten off our Pixar fans — we’ll still have all the comedy and the great characters. But we get a little bit more intense here.”
That feeling is also apparent in the film’s first poster, which you can see in the official first look below. You may notice some mysterious stones in the background of the poster, and that’s on purpose. “Those stones are actually a pretty important set in the film,” says producer Katherine Sarafian. “We can’t say what happens there, but they were inspired by an actual location in Scotland that we visited multiple times during our research. It was a very powerful setting for the kind of things we want to have happen in the story.”

John Lasseter on Piixar's early days....

 JOHN LASSETER: Yeah, I was the youngest guy there. Pixar was [originally] the Lucasfilm Computer Division.

Read more...

A must watch short film

By Robin George

Long time....isn't it

So, I'm updating here after a long time, been really busy with moving to the new city, looking for place to stay blah blah blah....I finally found a house after a lot of pain and gonna move there on 25th. Now I still have to buy a computer and probably a cell phone. Oh yes, I also bought a wacom tablet intuos 4 which is just AWESOMEEE and I'm loving it....currently just practicing more and more with it to get used to it before classes start. Woah, its 19th already and classes start from 27th....not too far now.....*excited* and *nervous*....also I'm looking for a part-time job as a maya teacher, lets see if I find one....So, soon I'm gonna upload my wacom works while I have fun with it....

Moving to Pune tomorrow

Ah!!!
Finally the home comfort has come to an end and I'm moving to Pune now. Gotta look for a house, buy a computer, get completely settled before the classes start on 27th....so much to do in so less time....I just hope everything works out well and within time...

AM Scavenger Hunt

I just love AM, they always come up with something new and fun and it keeps getting better....The Scavanger Hunt is great....they make sure that you understand the whole working of Animation Mentor through a Quiz....how thoughtful...So, I'm sure about all my answers except two....well I guess I'll clear my doubts about those questions in next Q&A....

Student Showcase 2011 is out

So the Animation Mentor Student Showcase 2011 is out and its absolutely truly fabulous and amazing and wonderful and terrific.....Its like every adjective is an understatement....I'm just awed after watching it.
They select the best of the works and put it up there....I'm gonna work real hard to get my work up there now, my new short-term goal....GET IN THE STUDENT SHOWCASE!!!
My favorite part in this showcase is....Mathieu Choquet's Dying Time's here and the Robin Hood....
Now, I really want to start doing that level of animation.....wait's killing me....and here's the showcase 2011:

http://www.animationmentor.com/showcase2011/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_term=FanPage&utm_content=Link&utm_campaign=Showcase2011

My first blog...

Hello there...

I haven't been a blog person before but after joining Animation Mentor, after seeing the enthusiasm of my fellow AMers, I was like, "Nupur , its time you have a blog of your own now". So, here I am writing my first blog post.
I'm gonna use this blog for uploading my animation work, my journey at Animation Mentor, animation facts that I discovered, interesting blogs of other animators, links to wonderful and unique reels or short films. So, first thing I'm gonna do is upload all the animation works I've done so far, its not much though. Please do comment on these videos.