AM Class 1

Finished class 1 at Animation Mentor earlier this month and finally got around to rendering out the assignments and doing some revisions over the holiday break. So, here is my progress reel for class 1. It goes from my last assignment back to the first assignment, and then all the poses.

Will try and post the work as it is in progress in the future. On to class 2!

catch

Was up at Art Institute and got to mess around with the Cintiqs! First time really sitting down and using one, so got a quick painting in. Would be hard to go back to a regular tablet after using these for a while!

(This is what happens when you realize why everyone on your team is yelling and pointing at you.)

Also, almost done with class one at AnimationMentor. Have been pretty busy and haven't gotten around to posting anything yet, but will try to post some work over break!

Heartland Film Festival

Yesterday, the Heartland Film Festival announced their official selections for the 2010 festival. I was lucky enough to have my animated short selected. It will be shown in a shorts collection on a few different days.

Click HERE for dates and time of screenings.

Click HERE for the Heartland animated shorts page.

Will be really cool to see my short on the big screen playing with big animated shorts like Poppy that also played at the SIGGRAPH 2010 festival.

In the meantime, you can go to the North & South website http://northandsouth.tk/ , still on temporary hosting for now. And here are two poster designs for the short I did a few weeks ago.

Hopefully the short will also make it into a few other film festivals in the future!

North & South Website

Wanted to create a website for my short ever since I finished the project, but never got around to it........until now! Seems to be what most people do when they make a short. Spent the last few days making a simple site with just a few pages. Used iWeb for the first time, but you can actually build pretty nice looking sites really fast with it. Did a little html/css coding at the end too though, and added the javascript for shadowbox that makes the pics and video pop up.

Right now I have it hosted through my dropbox and then renamed the url with dot.tk, which is good enough for now I think. Anyone know any good free or cheap domain/hosts I could use?

I will have the full short on the site after it's been shown in a few festivals most likely. Will also have some preproduction stuff on there at some point.

so........

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE SITE!

ps: I tested the site on mac versions of safari, chrome, and firefox. All seemed to work pretty well, let me know if you have any problems.

patterns

This is my mouse pattern for about an hour of internet browsing. You can see on the left, the black circles are areas of rest for the mouse and spots I go to often. Most of the markings are where the browser was sitting, where the tabs are at, and then the dock at the bottom. On the right are less markings. This is my secondary monitor, and for this I just had iTunes there so I would occasionally go there to change the music.

I will do a few more of these to see my mouse pattern while working in Maya and Photoshop.

You can get the program for this here: http://iographica.com/

Harry

This is my entry for 11 second club last month. Ended up 96 out of 233, not too bad. I think it needed a few more breakdowns and inbetweens before splining, and the poses are a little too snappy. The whole process for this one took about 5 days from start to finish. Will hopefully have an entry for this month too.

Giant

A little boy makes a discovery in the woods. Created for this week's illustration friday topic "giant". Finger painted on my iPhone with brushes app. Makes me want to buy an iPad for some bigger finger painting!

Here's the video that shows each brush stroke, one of the coolest features of the brushes app.