Whoaaahhht?!

Shinji Aramaki liked an animation I did, that my director had posted to facebook.

Mr Aramaki is most famous for creating and directing renown anime AppleSeed.

I'm flipping out right here. There's more to the news... but I'm unsure if i'm allowed to post it
here.

Anyway. I'm off to run around for a while.

So exciting

Had my test animation featured on the facebook page for The New Kind HERE

Go ahead and take a look.

Working on a new one right now.

KO

Finished this animation for now. Time to focus on getting used to the rigs for TNK!

Probably can't post that stuff on here, but i'll keep this updated with any other stuff that comes through my mind in the mean time!

Here's the shot.

Fight Blocking

Been working on the fight shot today.
Nearly finished blocking. It's exciting because the camera angle changes...

Happy with the poses... will be interesting to do this shot in 3D i've decided. Mainly because the blue guy gets away with turning one direction, then other mid-air in the cartoon, but may be difficult to make it look natural or even achievable in the 3D version. I'll see... it's a really quick motion and may only be 5 frames long.

Here it is!

Always draw it out

So this is a fight scene pulled right from Summer Wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Wars

I'm trying to get my fights happening so I can be super ready for this next gig.

I've basically just sketched out what I believe to be the key poses, colour coded and noted the shot.

It's only a small fragment from the whole fight, but I like it because it shows some great dynamics in how a smaller fighter can over power a larger one using balance. It's also pretty kick ass and I think would be fun in 3D.

I've started the shot already in 3D as well... Just blocking - using the beeboy rig (even though it has no IK arms... and can be a troublesome with its lack of an independent hip and wrist controls).

Wish me luck!

Bounce

I said C'mon bounce!

Nothing better than going back to absolute basics (sort of) and doing a bounce. Just to make sure
you've got all the principals in the front of your mind. It's so easy to forget.

So I did this, then went back and revisited the troll animation, and re-animated the arms and cleaned up a whole bunch of stuff in the head and torso controls.

I've started a new animation too! A fight scene from a film called Summer Wars is my reference.

Bang!

Done (for now)

Not 100% happy with it. But I need to start something new

I'll do a render and upload it soon!