AM Progress Reel....

Hey guys... I know it's been a long time since the last post but i promise i will keep it up :P

I just wanted to let you all know that I stopped AM after Class 2 for personal reasons and even if they were only 6 months in campus.. i had a blast there.. learning.. overlearning.. and getting inspired and challenged every day... I also wanted to upload my progress reel... which "almost" got me a gig at Blue Sky... it was a BUMMER that the US work permit only was allowing Canadian Citizens.. and not permanent residents... well... I will be citizen in about 2 months so I won't stop my "feature film" goal! :D

Thanx for watching and reading.

My Last Animation Mentor Assignment

Hello there... this is my last assignment at AM for Class 2 and I really wanted to push it a bit more so I could put it on my reel....

I learnt a lot at Animation Mentor, refining and reviewing my animation principals.. and met a lot of great people and animators... but for economic/full time work and travel reasons I think I won't be able to continue with it..

I had a blast doing this animation of Fern the farmer (character of chevisodes.com) jumping off a diving board... I tried to explore a bit more the Layering method.. and even if it was very messy at the beggining i could manage to set my ideas on it.. (it took a lot of brain power though)... I basically layered the body in stepped mode from the root out (I call this experiment "layering in stepped mode method" hehe) that started animating a cylinder to a close to final level.. and then translating that info to the root of the character.. and start layering the rest out! :) ... very fast and no much to do with the Graph Editor.. but a bit confusing to your eye and to receive critique.

I hope you guys like it... see you around.. as always! :D

Quicktime version here: http://www.danimating.com/3D/FINAL_AM_SOUND06.mov

Soccer Freestyle shot

This is my "jump over a gap" assignment at Animation Mentor.com..

I had so much fun animating this! :) I love soccer and i wanted to study it deeply this time.. it was pretty hard to find the spots were i could push it more and break it down from my video reference (which were freestylers on the web)..

so this is my "final" version of it.. i hope you guys like it! :)

c-ya around!

Soccer Kick Assignment

this is my first assignment for Class 2 at Animation Mentor... I had a lot of fun animating this.. and i am gonna do another "soccer" one for the next assignment also.. i just love soccer!!! heheheany kind of feedback would be cool.. and if you guys are interested here is the progression video of the shot from 2D concept, video reference and blocking stages :)

thanx for watching!

Class 1 Progress Reel..Animation Mentor

Compilation of my work on Class 1 at AnimationMentor.com

thanx for watching!! :D