Animation Mentor Begins!

Wohooo!

First day of Animation Mentor, man I am so pumped, I feel I could animate all day :), but I think I have to ease my way in, or I start doing things waaaay over my head. Looks like the first day is pretty much introduction to things, meeting your class mates, and testing out webcams and such, but I am enjoying the introductory videos, Animation Mentor does a very good job in inspiring students, just watching the video and hearing these amazing animators talk about the things they went through, and how its similart to how alot of students started is really inspiring, and leaves a very warm welcome, can't wait to start animating!

Hang in there as the course progresses I will be adding more posts :).

Siggraph 2009 Animation features DVD

Hi fellow bloggers,

Sorry for not posting recently :(. I am really going to have to get into the habit of posting more on the blog :), but I am guessing once I start Animation Mentor, I will be posting things once a week, actually as many things as possible, as I will have more interesting things to post up.

I just recently watched the Siggraph 2009 animation feature DVD that people get when they go to Siggraph every year, it was very cool! I enjoy watching these animation features, it gives me a lot of motivation and its good to see how small groups of people can also do work just as amazing as any majour animation studios out there, and I think Siggraph is a great way to show off there efforts. There was two particular ones I liked that was on this DVD (there is actually more then one DVD, I have yet to watch the other two) and they were called "French Roast" and "Alma", both very well animated with a great plot.

Someday I would love to visit Siggraph, just to see how its like, but I bet you anything you probably can't just waltz in :).

Click on the images below and it should take you to the videos, definately have a look at them, because they are just awsome!

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 :).