Life Drawing classes

Hello fellow blog viewers,

I have recently taken life drawing classes again :). I never actually did life drawings classes in my life until I took my 3D animation diploma at Media Design school. I loved ever minute of it, and learned so many things from it. I started drawing since I was little and found I had a talent in it (As you do when are around six years old ;) ), I thought I knew everything there could be about drawing, and of course I was terribly mistaken on the first day of life drawing, I still remember what my life drawing teacher said "We are not drawing robots here!", and he was definitely right.
He was a awesome mentor and I learnt so much, before life drawing I always thought my drawings lacked something, which I could never figure out, and life drawing classes gave me that answer. I finally understood that everything had a flow, even when you are drawing a person sitting down, they aren't sitting down dead straight, their bodies curve into positions, and lay down their weight on certain parts of the chair, and that is what makes the drawing very life-like and alive.

Of course I still got lots to learn, and there are still some areas I need to work on :). So here are sample of my work, I am still having trouble drawing faces when they are small, I find I can draw faces much better if I draw them big, its so I have more room to add details.

Now you are probably wondering why I would mention life drawing in an animation blog, well I believe that life drawing is very important for animation, because not only does it teach you to draw, but it develops the ability to notice little details in things that people normally would not take heed, and its these understanding of little details that I believe helps make a good animation, in understanding the movement of things in this world, whether it be animate or inanimate objects.

Again thank you for taking time into reading my post, and will update again soon, stay tuned :).

My First Blog

Hello fellow Blog readers!

This is my first Blog ever! Never made one before, and it was recommended by Animation Mentor that I started one. A little excited and hope to update the blog as often as possible :).

I handed all the necessary things to Animation Mentor, really excited and yet nervous and to be honest a little scared, I guess its something I thought I would never end up taking, but thanks to my co-worker, I am now in and ready to animate!

I have a little bit of 3D animation skill, but I don't think anything that amazing, lets just say that I still need "lots" of work. I took year after University and studied in Media Design School, I received my 3D animation diploma, however the course wasn't really a pure animation course, but it was really good in that it gave a good general skill level for 3D, so moving around in Maya is not something new for me :).