so... appease yourselves with this 8-bit music Lego stop motion of awe:
It's a ball bounce! Plus some squash and stretch! It gets funky on the second to last bounce and when it begins to stop, I feel a bit like a noob, but it's progress I'd say. Especially because it helped me overcome my fear of the graph editor!
In other news, a couple of friends and I went over to Gnomon to attend the making of Pixar's UP, a lecture lead by Gary Bruins. It was pretty exciting!
San Diego Comic-Con 2009: the Greatest Adventure!
Posted in Labels: 2009, character deformation, comic-con, kickstandlabs, maya, panel discussions
To sum everything up...Comic-Con 2009 was totally AMAZING. Not only was it my first time there, but I had been wanting to go for about FIVE years. Back in the day when I was a wee kiddie in Chiang Mai, I religiously followed the blogs/websites of Enrico Casarosa, Kazu Kibuishi, and Kean Soo. So when they got to go to Comic-Con, they would blog and post pictures about it, and be uber excited about EVERYTHING! and so, I got excited by everything and promised myself that I would have to make it to Comic-Con one day, even if I would have to fly there over to the States. I respected these guys and their work so much that I wanted to meet them in person and to work in their industry. So thanks to these guys, they became one of the reasons of why I came to California.
^ Enrico was SO FUNNY to talk to!
^ I look like a Spawnling.Alright, Hall H was epicly so hard to get into, but we managed to get in and the Panels where AMAZING! So some of the people and things we saw:
- John Lasseter = Pixar
- Hayao Miyazaki = Studio Ghilbi
- James Cameron = Avatar!
- Roland Emmerich = 2012
- Peter Jackson = District 9
- Robert Downey Jr. = Sherlock Homes and Iron Man 2
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Star Wars The Old Republic
- Jason Bateman = Extract! and Arrested Development
- LOST
- Olivia Munn!
- Zombieland
and soooo many more!
It was an amazing experience! Next week, I promise you a set of Character Poses! Since I'm back from Thailand and San Diego...I continue working/interning this Monday! WHOO!
Plus, check out what I found: http://www.kickstandlabs.com/tools/
It enables smoother character deformations in Autodesk Maya! I totally would love to have!
This one time... from nelson boles on Vimeo
Watch this awesome short by Nelson Boles, a CalArts dude.p.s. I am going home tonight. Then, they are going to check me for Swine Flu!
A to Z with Neil Cameron!
Posted in Labels: 3D animation, blog, comics, gnomon, iphones, neill cameron, summer, transformers 2, tutorials, vfx
Check out his blog here: http://neillcameron.blogspot.com/
p.s. as a kid I used to be so scared of Modok.
So guys, I've been really busy at work here at Jirbo and EpicTilt working on iPhone games, and hopefully before the end of summer, some of the games I've worked on will be up and on sale on iTunes! My good friend Michelle will actually get to see some of her work in the next two weeks. I'm really excited for her! The crew there is awesome, and I'll draw some cartoons of them soooooon.
Anyway, I'm homeward bound to the motherland...Thailand, so I've just been hanging around with some good friends, taking it easy and reading The Animator's Surival Kit, and just watching a lot of fundimental 3D animation tutorials, especially my good professor's Coddington's Gnomon stuff! And, surprisingly I'm all cool with this stuff just soaking in, and it's beginning to make sense :) hopefully I'll get to do some noobish animation ball bounce, character posing and some walk cycle before OTIS: season 3 starts!
Speaking of animation...TRANSFORMERS 2 was AWESOME! Of course I had problems with the story and some of the characters, but the VFX and Animation just blew me away. Hands down for ILM, Digital Domain, Imaginary Forces and all the other companies. This is our future industry guys!
Alright, I hope your summer is going well! LA has finally decided to get all warm and sunny. Oh and RIP Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Billy Mays.
You know, I'm a big fan of Hitchcock. I found this on Harald Siepermann blog, and by the way, he has some coooool drawings and a pretty interesting interview that concerns European/German influences on animation, cartoons and design.
Anyway:
I'M IN TEXAS...well, New Braunfels to be precise, to visit JD's parents and to have him show me his town. 
It was a rough 22 hour drive with some 10 minute breaks now and then--to get gas, spread the legs and switched back and forth with the JD--King of Cruise Control, but man I drove through some dust storm (which I guess wasn't something good to do), saw some crazy cool mountains in Arizona, a coyote in New Mexico, crazy stars and a huge monstrous moon, an awesome sunrise and once I was driving down into the town, a fresh dead dear with two vultures ripping it apart. Man I wish I took a picture of that. But I had SONIC for the first time and it was sweet.
I'll be posting some things and sketches once I get back to the great LA... that means WONDEROUS ANIMATION TUTORIALS!!!! YES!
Oh, here are images from the last day of our Intro to 3D class with the infamous Bobby Coddington and Craig Christian!!:
I love you guys.
OH YEAH!! First stop motion...EVER!
This was my final for Keith's class. I worked on this with Michelle for about 3 weeks. It's an alright stop motion piece, with some awesome bits!! It involves objects that we normally take for granted, which have a life of their own. A sock is separated from it's other pair and goes off in search of it!
Anyway here are some pre-production/production pictures!
p.s. rotoscoping bits took forever to do even though some of the shots varied from 3-5 seconds...72-120 FRAMES!! it payed off though! :D
Finals finals finals!!
It's that time of year again, and almost everyone's wearing out.
Anyway, here are some things from Jung's class, we had to do some Mideval Concepts for Jack and the Beanstalk, I got to do the merchant, Jack's mother, some beginning concepts of Jack and the Golden Egg which can transform into some nymph:
At any rate, I'll be posting up everything once school gets out! I've already gotten some rings under my eyes and I look like a panda! It'll be worth it though! Even my website is almost done!!
I totally finished this two weeks ago for my Media in Motion II class for Keith Downey. It's called Candy Fiends:
Here are the characters in vector:
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