dialogue EAP

Dialogue EAP. hmm the castrophes.

October. O is for, "Oh Crap, Uni is over now to finish my entire narritive in three days"

3 EAPS DOWN. ANOTHER EAP BITES THE DUST... who needs sleep anyway these days?

revised/corrected blog post

ePortfolio Design

Thought I'd blog it incase it gets lost !
My harddrive has had a bad habbit lately of literally eating my homework. :(

Thought this was funny !

very clever use of 2D 3D and live action :)

Long time no post

This is todays assement item. The line test for a rough run cycle of our character in our chosen program. Mine is in flash and is a little bit over exaggerated for my liking. It's too striding and confident for a blindfolded character running through an unkown environment ! but feel free to add your opinion as a comment pretty please. Tim already suggest (and I agree) that the spacing is too even.

colour choices and proportion

Some fairly bad ps work. but ohwell. I will try a few more/ different colour combinations soon

eye farts !...oh, I mean darts.

this one has a blink in it aswell. last week i trialed a blink in 3D, so this week i decided to try one in 2D :)
I must say, the hairy salami helped me learn today. thanks Heidster ♥

blinkety blinky

So this is my EYEBLINK. in real life i can only keep my eyes open and not blink for 30 seconds..unlike Jaxon..... hahaha
I like this eyeblink because the pupil leads it and the eyebrows also respond to the action adding more emotion. i added the head turn after becasuse it looked much too static with the head staying still. it looked like he was looking at something and the head needed to lead towards it.

Moth Flight

This is for the lovely Ian :) BUTTERFLIES


and also, wing shapes

This is my Shadow Casting Three point lighting

Finally ! Sorry for the wait !!!

I EVEN EAT DISNEY BREAD

SO committed to Disney and so easily distracted from my assignment I decided to go eat...again.
On my expedition to the kitchen I found THESE. ! Tigger rolls. Scrumptious... please note : no tiggers were hurt in the making of this post.... they were eaten too quickly to feel any pain.
:)

matte painting abstract background

okkk. my matte painting !

late post from last week

last week i couldnt post ! so here it is.. this is three point lighting with a green screen for my matt paint :)

After effects fail !

Ew awful attempt in After Effects. It seemed like the most simple exericse ever and I thought i'd have it done in NO time. But it feels like i havent slept in weeks and as such... voila .. crapola !

walk pose after walk poseeeee after WALK POSE

This is my walk pose from today :)

Contact Pose

Finally !
For some weird reason my computer was freezing and having issues with videos (not convinient when you're trying to rotoscope haha) this is my contact pose. But i just realised that i forgot my LINE OF ACTION. my line of action is fairly vertical, which is quite static because my character is not moving at great speed and is un aware of what is infront of her.

TALKING CATZ !!

Well Frank I thought of you and your two feline accomplices when I watched this video. so I thought i'd share it with everyone ahahaha. its sooo good :)



youll see what I mean ..

WHAT is that sound ?

Once again fiddilng in the Graph Editor, to Ian's joy and much to our disgust...

This is our snowman (kindly rigged by Ian himself) reacting to one Spike Milligan hahaha something that none of us had heard about. Us young whipersnappers. haha

walking EAPS

This is my attempt at drawing my thumbnail sketch.
The contact Pose. This isn't sneaking, it is however a very tentative walk.
the energy is electric but its being suppressed and the emotion is tentative .

Throwing Bricks

well well well...the second installment of my 3D throwing arm and we've been taught how to release the item. It's a very tricky .... as in sneaky. hahaha. There is actually two bricks in this animation but the visibility is switched on and off at the right time so we still have our entire rig complete.

3D Friday Assessment with IAN !

This is number one of three assessment pieces for Ian's 3D class !
This is a (very stylised) arm throwing a ball. The ball stays on top of the arm as we didn't get around to animating it haha. But the main objective of this animation workout was to get down and dirty with the graph editor ! Just learning about different curves and how the steepness of them can vary the tension and anticipation in a scene. :)

Jaxon the flatulent bunneh !

This is my 2D planning for our 3D animation for our ANIMATION WORD oh yeahh !
I learnt that Jaxon makes on dayum fine fluffy animal. That pushing extremes makes this kind of acting more understandable to the audience. Video Reference that is well thought out is very important. I tried to do a similar sequence in my head, thinking that I could quickly do it. The time was all wrong and the animal looked kind of wounded.

ANIMATION

This is the 3D animation word, that our entire class has contributed too.
With my 'O' I've decided to find a rabbit rig and make it crawl out of the o like it's a hole in the ground :)

max's PELVIS JUMP (planning)

So, as Maya does ...
eh never mind. I tried with Maya and lately I've been winning a few battles with him , but today that was not the case. Soo here is the minimum requirement :) The planning yay !

They say white men can't jump...

GO max you show them . you can jump in slow motion...how many people can do that? hahaha

max playblast

there was one with a camera move but it didnt turn out how i wanted at all ! so jsut the normal one

max with NO body

This is Max's walk cycle !

i must run now to animate the HIVE

what ever that is

animatiOn

Animation O

elephant on a ball ?

I was thinking that the elephant can roll the 'O ball' into the word animation

Mioment of contact

Maximus trying to act all gentle and stuff... with his tiny birdy friend. He is antipating patting the birrrrrrrd. :)

ICE CREAM WORLD

So.. this is the (icecream) headache of first go in Maya after the holidays :)

p.s i didnt fall off any exercise balls this time..

Le Thinker

Today we posed max as "The Thinker: :)

and we tried to pose on the ball aswell...with all success comes tiny failures along the way hahah I got on the ball in the end !

If I had a Crystal ball.....

main goals that I would like to set (AND ACHEIVE!) Are:

-Start working on an assesment item as soon as I get it. I have discovered that Animation is not necessarily difficult but it is EXTREMELY time consuming. (If any 1st years are reading, please take heed haha)

-Pass all my assessment. Not that I failed anything last year, I'd just like to keep that up.

-I want to learnt to colour in photoshop !

-I want my drawings to improve. I want them to have life, movement, expression, emotion. I want them to be interesting. I want people to look at them and think, "wow, I wish I could draw like that"

Because that is what I say when I look at everybody else's drawings. I want to get that good and then tell people, "You will draw like that one day! It will happen" then I'd show them my old books and show the progress. I would love to inspire others to be happy within their ability.

Continuing with and Graduating from my QCA Degree will definately be a challenging but worthwhile triumph. I can't wait for my graduation and to show those who thought it wasn't possible that I'd just done what they told me I couldn't do. :)

Well that was a bit of a rant... it's ok tho now , it's over!