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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

Hellooo.... Is this thing on??

Hola, I am updating this rather early in the day because usually I update every night. But since my modem decided to die I was unable to post anything or do anything. So anyway, here we are and now back to the post.
Last night while the internet was out I decided to go on and do a really rough rough rough layout pass for the 11 sec club. I also did a test earlier in the day on flash making a ball bounce. Here is the layout pass for the 11 sec club.


And here is the Flash test( I still need to figure out stuff with the graph)

Welp, thats reall it. I don't really have anything to update today, I will have something for tonight but as always I leave you with some tunes!!
Ciao

Welcome Back!!!

Hey everyone!!! Or anyone??? Hahaha, I don't know if anyone still reads this but anyway, I'm back!!! I have started this blog back up again and I'll be updating daily with animation news, and my own updates regarding, well... Anything really.. I had to stop blogging awhile ago due to life getting a bit hectic, bills and work just consuming my life. But I'm back now and ready to get this going, sooooo let's do this!!!
Animation News
I have some goals for the month of June and I want to share them with you guys and gals!!
#1 Complete the 11 sec club for this month. (For real this time)

#2 Learn Adobe Flash.

#3 Write a comic book. ( I know weird but I've always wanted to do one)

Anyway, those are my goals and now to the animation news.. Today, Disney released a trailer for their new animated movie "Wreck it Ralph" and it's amazing. An animated movie about video games?? Are you kidding me, the kid inside me is jumping with joy. Also, you'll see in the trailer that they have cameos, from the all time greatest video game characters!! I am so excited to see this and I want to give a shout out to everyone who worked on it, including the AM Alumni. Job well done!!! Now check it out!!!

I have a few podcasts I want to talk about. First, there is a new Force Versus Form Podcast!!! Featuring Fes, Tom and myself. We talk about the movies that will be coming out this year and we also talk about all the new animation schools that have come out. Give it a listen
Force Versus Form Episode #7
Also, I want to thank Peter Saumur for showing me this podcast and getting me hooked to listening to them. Kevin Smith (Director) hosts a podcast called "Smodcast" and recently they did an episode where he interviews "Paul Dini" one of the writers from Batman the Animated series. He invented the character Harley Quinn and it's just an amazing interview, and I got hooked and now I listen to all of the podcasts.. Give this a listen as well!! Smodcast Episode #211 "Fatman on Batman"

Alright this has been a long post but it was the first one in a longgggg time. Sooo I leave you with some tunes..
Ciao

Woop

Ok so I kind of put up a new Demo Reel just wanted to get something new on there so I put up the dog shot along with what I already had so check it here.
Cloudymation

I put this dog walk cycle on there as is and I still have to do some fixes but yeah.


What's next??? Welllll I am going to clean up my dialogue shot for the face and I am also looking at probably doing a mechanics or cycle shot starting saturday, so I can get that done and send my reel to Arenanet... So wish me luck I'll post stuff on here as I go.

Peace


Forgot to say Me, Fes and Tom got to do a podcast interview with Wayne Gilbert!!!!! Awesome right, well when it gets posted I'll put up a link here.

Peace fo real

Soooo

Yep the 11 sec blog kicked my ass and I realized I was just going in circles and I was not going to finish so change of plan I am going to just finish the dog walk and polish up my dialogue shot then figure out my next shot. I feel like I do this a lot but things aren't clicking right now in my workflow and I can say that the little test made me figure out a bit of what I can fix so that's good.

So here is what I have of tonight trying to polish it up.

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Ciao

Yeah what

So nothing big trying to just kind of tie down and push some key poses on this test it's not anywhere where I want it but here ya go.


Ciao

Yeppp

So I am getting ready to kick off a productive week with a Sunday deadline!!
I have decided to take part of the 11 Sec Club Blog it's just like the 11 sec club for acting only these are weekly tests that start on Monday and end on Monday.

Every week is a different theme and this week's theme is making a human walk like an animal. I am making him walk like a lizard and this is rough layout I didn't get around to the full blocking of keyposes like tomorrow I will but this will do. I want him to chill look around then run to one side stop look around then sneaky crawl to the other side and stop and blink a few times.. That's it and I don't really have this timed out it's just spread out for the sake of not having it on 1's.


Second thing I am working on is just a dog walk cycle I am working on the feet right now and I am kind of just going to be polishing everything up as I go, so here that is.


Will have more tomorrow now it's time to sleep

Peace

Bang

BOOOM!!!! I'm back and this time for realzz. I lost motivation and just had trouble getting things going but I'm getting right back into it.

I will be posting my work as to log it here and keep me award that I need to post every day..

Tomorrow I will have two tests that I am currently working on and trying to finish by the end of the week one is a cycle and the other is for an awesome blog that my good pal Steven Holland showed me..

I will have more of those tomorrow and oh yeah check out my actual new website at Cloudymation

Ciao!!

Bing

Animation News

Fes and I did another podcast for Force Versus Form and we covered how you get into roadblocks in your animation and ways to avoid them. We also had a special guest AM Alumni and currently in the Animals and Creatures course, Thomas Nguyen. We hope you enjoy!!!
ForceVersusForm Podcast #5

Music


A short film by Astero Kid called "Galactic Mail". A fun and cool design to a interesting story.

Ciao

Your it

So a brows and eye pass are all I got done today, I think the end doesnt feel right I'm thinking his eyes and brows should open on the word "COME" right now I have it at "ON" just having some troubles. I want to work on the hands at the end and the lipsync tomorrow and tighten up the brows and eyes again. Anyway here it is.


Animation News

So I did a sketch for The Rough Sketchers Blog this week's theme was Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers!! I am going to try and make it a habit and I think you should too,join up and start doing it. A weekly sketch to get you away from animating on the computer and trying new things. Sooo check it.
The Rough Sketchers

Music-Thought this was appropriate


Pixar short "Jack Jack Attack" the back story to what happened to the baby sitter while the family was gone.

Ciao