Siggraph!

Siggraph 2010 is just around the corner and I'm really excited because, this year, I'm finally going! =D Can't wait to see the animationmentor booth and the demoreel reviews and feature-film scene breakdowns they're doing. It'll be great! If somebody else is going and want to meet there, drop me a line by e-mail or comment here! Any interesting news I found there, I'll be posting here, so stay tuned!

See ya!

A little more iPad drawing. Now with video!

Having this video playback feature in brushes is cool because you can see that I changed my mind a lot of times while drawing. In the end I decided to make her a little Scarlett Johansson like. Who doesn't love Scarlett Johansson, right?

Animation Mentor!

Hooray! =D So, last week, after almost 3 years dreaming about it, I finally applied to animationmentor.com! I filled the form and answered the short essay questions. Then they sended me a test and a few hours later I got this on my e-mail!

"Congratulations! You've been accepted as a student at Animation Mentor."

Couldn't be happier!! =DD

We Have Jobs!

I did this about a year ago when I was doing Keith Lango's Animation Personal Trainer. It was a very nice piece to study, but I never rendered or posted it anywhere until now! I don't quite like some acting choices I did at the time, some things too much, others too little, but it was very good for learning that. To change this now would be to re-do everything from scratch, so I'm not changing it... =). Anyway, I like the overall result and I really love the dialogue. It's from "School of Rock", witch is a great and very funny movie! Hope you like it!

Stereo 3D

Well, we're working with stereoscopy here in Ool Digital, and we decided to do an animation to show a character in stereo 3D. So I did this little animation with a very simple rig of a Monkey (it's in my reel too). Now, to test youtube stereoscopic capabilities, I uploaded the "changuito" to see how it looks like. For some reason, the quality of the video is bad (and my source was a perfect quality fullHD) and youtube seems to not understand the 16:9 ratio for some reason, and insists in putting black bars on the sides... really odd... But, anyway, here it is, in full you-tube-esque 3D glory:

PS: I just noticed (after I posted) that the embedded video lacks the 3D options... so, unfortunately, you have to click the video to see the youtube page with all the 3D features available. Or just click here!

Digital Finger Painting

Few months ago, I've got myself an iPad, and I couldn't find a better use for it than painting. Of course is not like Photoshop with a Wacom tablet but it's really portable! I bought this very good app called Brushes and started to test this new portable painting/sketching system. Really cool! =D

New Demo Reel 2010

Ok, so a little update: I'm living in Mexico now and working for a recent started company called Ool Digital. I just put together a new DemoReel to be presented in Ool's website. Hope you like it!

on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PlU6kpPLSI

Hey blogspot! I'm alive!

It's been a loooooong time... How have you been? I think we can put our differences behind us... for science!

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.