Christmas time stuff

A lil fast acting test

Electricity shortage..

Since the electricity in my area went down for about two hours, I decided to go traditional :)

Little, very rough test I did:

Tangled rocks!~~

drawing hands part1

various walks...

Vanilla walk and concerned Stu..

BELIEF - animatic 1st pass

When I was small [about 4-5 years old] I was getting very excited every time my family had guests and I just couldn't stop jumping from joy! And I remember my father laughed at me and commented on that with a bit of irony each time... I was very emotional kid and so it felt so daunting.. but in spite of that, I still couldn't stop bouncing !~~ XD"

DON'T LEAVE ME - animatic 1st pass

Some fast character sketches:





"It's not easy living in this world, but we want to feel happiness in order to continue smiling. In order to feel happiness, we love. When we love, we protect. To protect, we grow stronger. To grow stronger, we strive to be better. Each of us strives day by day. Little by little. 1, 2 step, step by step. Let's do what we can one little step at a time." ~Miyavi

"Take a first step" - animatic 1st pass

Stu- strength pose

Not saying goodbye to Tailor yet

master Robert McKee

Class1 Week7 Tailor [WIP]

Week 5 : Stu devastated

About sadness and beloved ones that went before us...

mister Ping-Pong

Arcs and spacing

My visual notes from Pixar's UP:
(click on the image to enlarge and see the arcs and spacing)









^___________^ so much to discover is waiting....

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lighting tutorial

My lil tutorial on how I light and render my 3d shots in 8 minutes(although with talking about it, it takes longer :P )

yatan lighting tutorial from Agnes yatan Podolecka on Vimeo.

Smaller image file size trick

Sometimes my software creates jpeg images with REALLY big file size, although they are 640x480. So what I do is : I open this big heavy jpeg image with simple Windows (MS) Paint and just Save it (CTRL+S). And close. Looks like nothing happened - the quality looks the same and everything, but the file size can be about 10 times smaller!

Just a little trick I use to make sure I don't upload too heavy files :)

Stu posing tests

During the few last days I tried to get used to Stu rig to be able to pose him comfortably and fast. Some of the poses I came up with:

Fast cake concept art

4 of my fast collage cake concept art pieces

Taco 3d model

Taco I did some time ago. I'm going to rerig the face this week, so that it's joints based like yatan rig. And ups, GUI's waitin' to be done too ^^"




B1 ppl!!~~

Testing final "yatan" rig !~~

Finally I entered the testing/polish stage with my alter ego rig [following Ringling Animation School idea for the assignment - I think it's great to learn to be more aware of own body language and reactions]. I discovered few days ago that spine is not eager to rotate and so I rerigged it [double ribbon ik torso] this night [1h of sleep :P ]
Facial rig is fully joints-based cuz it gives me the most flexibility.
Now the poses libraries are waiting to be done.

Facial Expressions part 2

P.S: I've just got a mail from master Norbert Götz.- The shadow theater new website is up!~~
~~ http://www.theatre-of-shadows.com ~~


.... Cheers !~~

Facial Expressions Sheet part 1

Presenting some of the expressions collection I drew some time ago.
Basically the goal was to see how far I can push it , so it's a good concept for 3d blend shapes for facial rigging. Model: Taco

part 1:








peace out ~~