Sidestep Exercise Animation

Here's a simple animation I worked on today just for fun. I went through the Jason Ryan Animation SIDESTEP tutorial covering a step by step process of creating a flipbook 2d and 3d version of this animation. In his tutorial he used the Boris rig but instead I used the MOOM rig which worked out great for this demo. The only problem I came across with while using the MOOM rig was that the geometry sometimes looked crunched up around the hip area, but overall it's an excellent rig and I did enjoy the ribbon squash and stretch on the limbs which added a lot to the cartoony feel of the animation.



http://www.jasonryananimation.com/
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/moom-v4-0-3-by-ramtin

Aniboom.com The People Speak Competition

Here's my entry for the Aniboom.com The People Speak Competition.



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Moleskine 003: Marin co. fair 4th of July weekend

My Art Gallery

The Saboteur E3 2008 Character trailer

Learning 2d from Jason Ryan Animations

Here are a few flipbook animations I did following Jason Ryan's flipbook method. I had fun creating these and hopefully employ this method in my own workflow someday. I personally think that the 2d version was much more appealing, oh well I just have to remember not to make my CG work look very ROBOTIC. Keep animating!!!

click here for hi res MOVs
http://uptownmn.googlepages.com/Marcelino_jump.mov
http://uptownmn.googlepages.com/skip.mov

Moleskine Sketches 002

UCLA, Westwood, Disneyland. I've been really busy at work so I didn't have much variety of sketches to show this week. Enjoy!!!

Moleskine Sketches 001

So I'm going to try this new idea, and the point of it is to get me to sketch anywhere and anytime. Every week or so I'll be posting up some of my quick sketches from my molskine sketchbook. All the animators and concept artists at work have been using them and I just wanted to join the fun of sketching. Now these sketches are by no means masterpieces, they're simply my recording of what I see around me. So here's the first series of sketches I did this weekend. I walked around Redondo Beach and sketched some of the people walking around, fishing, and playing with their kids. There's a huge dog park by my place so I stopped by and TRIED sketching some of the dogs. I realized that dogs are so much harder to draw than cats. They're constantly on the move so it's a challenge to capture their poses, but here they are. Across the the dog park, there was a baseball game going on so I sat on a bench a distance away from the field and sketched what I could capture. I hope you had a good weekend and ejoy the week.

GUILTY

I am currently working on a 2 person dialogue for my AM class 4. The line of dialogue is from Arrested Development and it's a conversation between the father and the son. Here's a quick peek at my thumbnails and sketches. I'll post my first blocking stage in a few weeks. See you soon.

Facial expressions

Here's a few of facial expressions I had to recreated in 3d for my Class 4 animation mentor class.
The goal was not to recreate the exact look of the image reference but to capture the pose, the overall personality of the expression.

The Saboteur

So for the last 2 years I've been wroking on this game called The Sabotuer. We're starting to advertise and I just wanted to share this awesome game art done by our talented concept artist Jason Hazelroth .