Term 2 - Week 11

So I finally got the assignment done polished it, got it into frame budget, and added some minor details. Dont mind that it says blocking in the video. Its actually in spline now just didnt get a chance to type in "Final" into my shot mask. I might go in and slightly tweak some things before I render it out but for now Im pretty happy with it.

Term 2 - Week 10

I finally thought of an idea that I feel works for the ending. Unfortunately, its carrying me over my frame budget. So on my last pass at it Im going to cut off some things that I feel arent that necessary for the shot. There are some things that are a bit funky because Im trying out this new work flow that Ive been trying to do this whole term. Which is to stay in blocking as long as possible. Which was suggested my our mentor Dimos. THANKS!!! GREAT WORKFLOW!!! So Im still in blocking in this pass at it although some parts are starting to look smooth.

Term 2 - Week 9

So on this week I went ahead and added some breakdowns and tweaked a few things. Since on the on the previous week I didnt really have an ending to it, I thought of one this week. Unfortunately I didnt felt it read unless I rendered it out. So Im scratching my idea for the ending and trying something new for the next week.

Term 2 - Week 8

So here goes my next and final assignent for the term. I had a rough time with this assignment it's pretty rough due to the fact that I only had one day to work on it. I had issues with my camera and wasnt able to import the footage into my computer for reference. So unfortunately I had to spend most of my time during the week trying to get that darn footage uploaded. This has pretty much the idea Im going for though.

Term 2 - Week 7

Whats up everyone so this my final refined version of my pole jump.

Term 2 - Week 6

So this how it looked after I went in and took it out of blocking there are still things I need to tweak. So Ill post it up when I get polished up

Term 2 - Week 5

For this week we had to choose from doing a box jump, a leap over a gap, or jump from post to post. These are some the sketches I did the week before. I end up tweaking it accordingly once I start the blocking it out.

Term 2 - Week 4

This week I just spent some time making it looking look a little nicer visually

Term 2 - Week 3

This week I went in and smoothed everything out.

Term 2 - Week 2

In the second week we got to go ahead start blocking out the assignment

TERM 2 - Body Mechanics

So here's the hoe down. My second term at AM started a little over 3 weeks ago BUT because again Im always pushing 25 hours into a 24 hour day its been juuuust a weeee bit difficult Ill try to keep up. When I started my second term I had Joe Mandia as my mentor but because of the schedule I had to switch to Dimos Vrysellas both are really cool guys and have a long history in the animation world. So week 1 was me getting vido reference for my assignment and making sketches for it. My assignment was to do a 180 turn of the AM character Ballie.

CLASS 1 AM Progress Reel

LOL!!! Funny I was only able to put my first and last assignment from my first term at AM. My progress reel fills in all the middle minus the sketches.
I want to thank my mentor Bryan Engram for all the help and support he gave me. He's an awsome guy and I hope to meet him in person one day and personally thank him. I had a chance to meet him while I was student volunteering at Siggraph 08 here in L.A. (Ill post some pics up later)at the AM party but I bathe my son and put him to sleep around the time the party started so unfortunately I wasnt able to meet him... Hopefully one day though.Well, thanks for all your help Bryan!!!

Wow!!! Its been awhile...

So I've been really busy and I didnt get to put pratically anything up from my first term at Animationmentor but my first assignment. I had a long term. I was busy with AM, work, another school I was also going to, my internship at Pixel Liberation Front, teaching myself XSI, working on a project for my old professor/friend, and on top of that I still come home to be with my loving little boy...Soooo yeah thats a lot. Well, Ill be back with some more info. Peace

Stu Pose

So this is the final pose I did from my sketches. I chose this one because of the dynamics in the pose and because it reminded me of when I use to go out and dance. i really enjoy this pose and had fun setting it up.

AnimatonMentor Observation Poses

Whats up you guys, I've been very busy so I haven't had a chance to post up my progress but here I am now. So these are the very first assignment at Animationmentor. I was assigned to go out in a public area and make observations and lot of sketches. After that we were suppose to choose a pose and pose Stu(character given to us from Animationmentor) doing the same pose.

Time to get the Ball Rolling

What up everyone,

I've been very busy so I havent had chance to post anything from Animationmentor yet. So I decided to get started with a little silhouette image of my buddy Spike from AM. Also, let me tell you guys that this quarter I was set up with Bryan Engram. Bryan is an Animation Supervisor at Reel FX Creative Studios. Some of his work, to name a few, is included in The Wild, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles, and game cinematics for Halo 2 and Transformers. So far my class is off to great start with Bryan. He is great guy and glad to have as my mentor. I'm sure Im going to learn a lot.

College Animations

So these are a few of the animations I have done so far from when I was in college but there's a lot more new animations to come... so stay tuned...Saaaame bat time saaaame bat channel

Ollie Lip Sync

This a funny little character I made to practice modeling, rigging, and animating. It still needs some tweaking and once I get the chance Ill fix it up a bit better

This is a drunk walk I did with this be big headed character a teacher gave me to play with.

Sketches

These are a few of the sketches that I've done. Unfortunately, I've been very busy so I haven't had a chance to sketch any newer ones but hopefully Ill get a chance to do so soon and Ill post them up.

Sketch

Sketch

Felt like drawing a punker.

Sketches

Some random people I sketched out

Character Design

An anapomorphic character I came up with while I was at Borders book store.

Character Design

This is the developement of a character of a little kid.

Caricatures

Some caricatures I did of a poster I saw at work.

Concept Character

Life Drawing

Some life drawings sketches I did.

Exotic Woman

Portrait

This is a sketch I did awhile back when I was bored doing laundry.

Hip Hop

A cartoony portrait of Busta Rhymes and Chingy.

My Bros

Some funny little caricatures I did of my bros.

Batman

A sketch I did of my favorite heroic character.

Character Design