Tarzan progression

A little video with all the stages of the Tarzan drawing:

Tarzan Progress

Tarzan

This is my Tarzan. I did a very rough sketch in paper, and then refined it in photoshop 'til I've got this: (click on the image to enlarge)

Well, I don't know if I'll continue to work on it. I already learned a lot with this one. Maybe I'll add a background or something... I'm also doing a "speed racer" painting, but I'll post that later when I get closer to finish it. Thanks everyone! Cheers!

Photoshop again!

Well, I know this is an animation blog... but, in my last non-animated post, I said that I would try something of my own. So, I took some inspiration from Bryan Ballinger and did this paint in photoshop from my own head. The character it's quite funny but this is due to Ballinger's great talent for funny drawings! It's such a great reference! Check his site out and you'll see!





And if you remove the lines, you get this:

Hammer on

This was a little exercise I did to study weight in animation. I had a little problem with the rig so I didn´t quite finished it like I wanted to... But, it's kinda OK so I thought I should post!

Thanks!

Whooaaaaaleee

This is Wall-e! From Pixar's upcoming movie. I decided to try something more like a painting with the tablet. So I took an image from a poster of the movie and made a "painted" version of it in photoshop. I did not put one over the other to trace it. I just looked at the original while painting. But since I don't have any color training, I picked the colors from the original. Next time I will try something of my own! Thanks!

Here's the full image (click to enlarge):

Drawing

I bought a little wacom tablet (bamboo) a couple of weeks ago, so I decided to test it by making some drawing. So I did this in photoshop. It´s Remy from Ratatouille!

And here are some separated layers:

If you liked it (or even if you don´t), drop a comment! Thanks!

Bouncing ball with tail.

An animation I did a while ago (2007 I think) to study some animation principles. Since I never posted it anywhere, I´m posting it here now! =). It´s just a bouncing ball, with a tail, jumping through an obstacle.

Final entry for 11secondclub

This is the final animation for 11secondclub:

There are little changes in the eyes and hands, and the camera movement was added.

Thanks to all! Bye!

11 Second Club

Hey, it's almost finished! Well... realy, it still needs a bit of work. But I think it's coming out ok. Check it out:

Go check the voting in a few days in: www.11secondclub.com

Thanks!

11SecondClub!

Yeah Hey! First 2008 post! It´s about time!

I´m participating in the 11secondclub.com animation contest, and here´s my blocking stage for the March entry:



That´s all for now because I´m in a little rush to finish this in time! Thanks everyone!

Again!

Hello world! It's been a while again! I'm now working with CG and animation at Tribbo Post in São Paulo and it has been great so far! I'm still studing animation a lot but it's a little more difficult to keep the blog up to date now. I'll try to keep up better from now on... Here in Tribbo we use XSI and I made a little study of this character getting up and down a box (not exactly a box) to pratice some animation and some of XSI. It needs a lot of polishing but I think it's coming out ok! Tell me what you think!

Demoreel

Well, I´m looking for a job in animation now, so I decided to work on a demoreel to show some of my great animation skills! =D It´s not really finished yet (like almost everything I post here!) But, you can see some finished animations in there (like the "directions" clip and others. There´s a newer version of the "Stylin'" clip in there too! Check it out:

I'm back!

Well, I've been away for a while because I was moving to a new city. Now I'm living in São Paulo. I'm still organizing my stuff and transferring everything to my new computer. It's a little bit more complicated because I'm switching from a PC to a Mac. (Finally!!) I don't have much time to animate right now, so maybe I'll not participate on this month's animwatch challenge... :(
Anyway, I'm putting a newer version of the Stylin' clip here for you to watch and comment! Cheers!

CAPONES - Animation

Well, for those who don't know, I have a band and it's called CAPONES. Between 2003 and 2005, I've made some animations for videoclips and DVDs of the band. I created four characters in 3dsmax to caricature the band members and one of them is obviously me! I'll post something again about this character, but for now, you can see some of the animations I did with these guys here:


In this clip, I made everything. From modeling to final edit. The bg music is from "Man or Astro-Man" (GREAT BAND BTW) and the music is "Interstellar Hard Drive".

The animation itself is not good 'cause I wasn't really studying animation (like I am now) at that time. Just 3D in general. But I think the charcters are nice. They're kinda cute... :P

Now smoothed!

Smoothed but not finished! It still needs lots of polishing... and that's without mentioning the girl that I've didn't even touched... I had some little problems with this one, had to start it all over from scratch, that's why it took so long, but that's ok since I learned a lot of Maya. How to make hair and fur, lighting, rendering with mental ray, etc... It was pretty cool!



Oh, and I almost forgot! For those of you who use Maya if you want to play with these characters you can find them at highend3d. There are lots of rigs ready to animate there! These two are MooM and Andy. Cheers!