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Hey, here is two quick updates. First is 11 sec club for may, now up to 212 frames of body polished no face yet :( And now here is the anim exercise #4 head turn. Rough splocking. Enjoy some tunes by Hall and Oates.

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Hola quick update.. Here is me trying to polish up last months 11 sec club, I've only gotten to about the first 130 frames and only the body. So this will be an update usually on this shot as I go on. Here it is. Secondly, I'm working on this months 11 sec club and I have 4 separate shots and here is the first one. Hope you enjoy, here is Suit and Tie.

June!!!

How did we get to June? Time is flying.. Anyway, as of my last post I said that I entered the 11 Second Club contest for May and I got 104th place. At first I was upset with this but after watching it over again and realizing the amount of time I was able to put into it(which was about 2 weeks and only a few hours out of those days) I was okay with what I got and now I am pumped to start doing more tests.

Since now that's done with I am going to continue doing a lot of animation this month here is a list of what I plan to get done by the end of the month. 1. Atleast two Animation 51 exercise tests. 2. Female Walk cycle. 3. Polishing my May 11sec club shot. 4. Planning/finalizing the 11 sec club for this month June.. Ambitious, I know, but I feel like I have a lot of hours and time to spend getting better. So might as well get them in this month!!

Here is my most recent test from the Animation 51 exercises. It's number 3 and it's a Brick Drop. Now I am not the greatest or most technical guy when it comes to Maya, so I just did a brick falling without breaking (which does happen haha) Here is the test and expect more soon. And I leave you with some Tegan and Sara - Walking with a Ghost

Time out!!

Sooo, here I am with another post been busy the past few days and I apologize for that. Work and trying to animate on free time has been hectic and tiring. But I wanted to let anyone if there is anyone who reads this, that I submitted my final for the 11 second club this month!! It was a challenge, getting back into the chair and animating consistently has been fun but tiring. I am re-learning things and making mistakes, which are oddly good things to do :) I have some problems in my workflow that I plan on to work out on the next shot.

Well here is the shot... I need to do some serious timing and all around polishing on this shot but I learned a ton.. That's the important thing, right?

Well this month will be more animation including, animation 51 exercises(continued), Female/Male walk cycles, and possibly the 11 sec club for this month?? But now I leave you with some Weezer. Ciao

A Little Change

Hola, I have taken a little break from the 11 sec club (Just a day off) to work on animation exercise numero 2. Which is a ball bouncing across the screen. I am really digging these exercises and I remembered how long this animation took me when I first did it at AnimationMentor. I guess I really didn't feel like I was progressing but I am and I feel it more everyday. Anyway, here is that test.

So, now onto my next shot which is a female walk cycle. I chose to do a sexy/runway walk because I think there is a lot I can learn from it, and with a walk cycle I always feel you can learn so much from them. So here is a rough timing/blocking pass of key poses.

Rilo Kiley

BLOCKED OUT

So here it is finally the last of the Mohicans of this block pass. I still have to do a timing pass but for the most part it's all there ready to go. Tomorrow brings us #2 of the animation exercises and a female walk cycle. So yeahh be on the look out.

Stand By Me

another quickie

Hola, so here we are another pass. What I have done, I zoomed the camera in more to make it tighter, I also fleshed out the beginning the middle and finally the end. I think it's close to being ready for splining and a pass on overlap and anticipation.. Anyway, here is the most recent pass.

Quickly Quickly!!

Here's another pass I need to rework the timing and flesh out the end before I go to splines.

Relax to some Bee Gee's

Again

Got a quick post new pass on 11 sec club more poses. Need to re-time, push camera in, and flesh out the arms in the beginning.

Got to do another pass and get onto animation #2 look out for that tonight. In the meantime, listen to some GZA

Tired

Hey, I worked all day and now I'm tired... Here is one of the other tests I'll be doing this month. It is the 11 second club entry for this month. So far all I have is key poses but tomorrow with some good rest I will be blocking a lot more.. So here it is.

And now some Daft Punk.. Good Night!!!@@##

Back with a refresher!!!

Here we go again!! In August I will be moving to California to begin a new chapter in my life. I've decided to go into crunch time with animation as I will be working on a new reel and doing the 51 animation exercises to refresh and make my skills stronger. I will be posting all of my work on here as I go and it might not be a daily affair, but I will be working every week and whenever I have something to post, I'll post it as soon as I'm done.

I am going to start with posting a ball bounce which is number 1 on the exercise list. The list can be found at 51 animation exercises

Here it is.

Alright til next time here's some music. Ciao