WIP-Quadraped Run Cycle

This is a small test that I'm currently working on. Here's the 1st pass.

Demo Reel Nov 13

So, I'm posting here after a long time, once again, guilty as charged. Well, to be really honest, turns out I'm not the biggest fan of blogging. This is specially to put my new reel out in the world as I'll be going to the Siggraph Asia 2013 which starts from Nov 19th, there I said it, I'm a lazy person when it comes to typing stuff. I'm gonna try and change that, lets hope I really mean that.

Anyway, here's what I feel is compilation of my best works so far and they've been done in pretty short time as opposed to my previous stuff. Although, I'm aware that there are hardly any visitors here (for obvious reasons, you know for my amazing posting frequency) but if any of you happen to accidentally or intentionally(I wish) comes here, I'd be really glad for any comments whatsoever.

Nov'13 High Res from Nupur Chitalia on Vimeo.

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!