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Animating to Make People Smile 10 Mar 2010 | 08:41 pm
London rap artist Leano produced the following inspirational short film, bringing together 15 animators to inspire people to smile. I think this is an awesome use of animation, and one I’d love to se...
Animation Mentor Update 29 May 2009 | 08:19 am
So I’m in Class 2, Body Mechanics of AM now. I have some of my work up on my youtube account. It’s been a very interesting time. I had a very difficult time at first; I couldn’t understand what my m...
Model trouble 20 Jan 2009 | 04:27 pm
So, my experience with the 11 second club was not a pleasant one. Oddly enough, everyone who gave me feedback were the act-it-out-yourself-no-reference type of people, which was entirely unhelpful be...
Blob Test 20 Jan 2009 | 04:09 pm
I just started Animation Mentor a couple of weeks ago. While watching one of the lectures, I had the idea to do a crappy little animation of a blobish thing, but doing every frame manually (with no in...
Hopper 5 Nov 2008 | 03:18 am
I’m doing an exercise animating a hopping ball; being such an animation newbie, I figured it’d be good practice. You can see what I have so far at: http://vimeo.com/2151930 The first 2 hops are act...
11 Second Club 18 Oct 2008 | 10:50 am
I’ve decided to participate in the 11 second club this month. I’ve uploaded my first (very very sucky) WIP clip: http://www.vimeo.com/1995954 This’ll be my first time participating in the contest. T...
Stop Staring 2 Jun 2008 | 11:48 pm
“Stop Staring“, by Jason Osipa, is a book about modelling, rigging and animating the face. It’s especially geared towards rigging, and offers several techniques to reduce (or automate) the number of ...
Practice Blocking 2 31 May 2008 | 02:07 am
To continue my series of crappy, 1 or 2-hour practice blocks, here’s a guy being hit in the head with a ball: I tried to do a anticipation-accent-final cycle here, though I’m not sure if I succeeded ...
Practice Blocking 30 May 2008 | 01:00 pm
As part of my ongoing effort to improve my very sucky animation skills, I made this one-hour block of an animation yesterday: It basically followed some ideas I read in the Animator’s Survival Kit (g...
Vector IK 30 May 2008 | 12:10 pm
Vector IK is a great technique for some situations where normal IK just doesn’t cut it. The technique basically uses one control to rotate and “curl” an IK chain. It’s also fairly simple to do. You...
