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!!!!