Experimenting with color

I would like to keep working in grey in my sketching practices for a while but I also wanna experiment some with color. The best thing by far I'm having a lot of fun.

Philly

Lunch 2

Well I'm quite happy with this one. Thanks to all my coworkers for the advices, critiques, tips and bad jokes :D. This rapid sessions in lunch time are really fun.

Mae

lunch

"intrusismo"

Sometimes is difficult to have time to animate after work. Hopefully sketching is something that I can do in only a few minutes.

short?

I have been thinking about it for a while, working as animator leave very few time to animate at home and work in your owns project, but a feel the necessity to tell something even if is a quick funny story... So I was thinking about a few ideas and I wasn't really sure about what to do. Model and rig new character it is not something I would like to spend to much time to focus on animation that is what I really enjoy. So finaly my wife remember me about a kind of story I started and never finished. I she told me why I never finished. So I decided to start again with it. Hopefully I will be using stewie rig provided for Animation Mentor (facial animation is not my priority in this story) and this way I could do something at home to fill my storytelling needs. There would be time to start with more complex and deep stories but I think this one would be ok to be the first one after a lot of time.

I spend a whole day with my planning and right now I'm animating one shot I hope to show you something in this blog.

Fernando Alonso

"It doesn't matter what equipment we give him or what circumstances he finds himself in, he extracts the most from the car.
"That determination and drive is still there."

Renault technical director Bob Bell about Fernando Alonso.

Subway

I found a simply animation tool for my DS Animanatee It's cool animate while you go in the bus or the subway.

Really funny pieces of animation

This weekend surfing the web I came across two specially funny pieces of animation.

The firt one is like a private joke from animators to animators. The stewie joke really cracked me up (Many animation students had had to deal with that huge head)

Please feel free to visit the website and blog of this really talented animator currently working in dreamworks.

http://www.wjacobgardner.com

The second one is a first chapter funny as hell with great characters and great animation. And I suppose incredible flexible rigs. Those faces gets deformated in a way that is really difficult to achive in cg animation.

UPDAAAATEEEE!!!

A coworker mock up me these days because the lack of updates in my poor blog. So I revised the links bar, I updated some links, still some are broken though.

By the way you can check my coworker blog
here He is a very talented drawer when he is not sleeping :))) (just a joke he is a hardworker but he struggles a lot in the morning like everyone :)) )

Enjoy!

Throwing ball

A little test I did in my spare time. Trying don't get too rusty in Maya now I'm animating in max at work.

LipSync Reworked

Not sure if still need some work, probably but I need a pair of fresh eyes. Anyway I start to refine the body, especially the last Not sure if still need some work, probably but I need a pair of fresh eyes. Anyway I start to refine the body, especially the last part.

Lipsync Part1

I really wanna get this animation done, so I keep working in my scarce free time. Now I'm completely reworking the lipsync area. B I really wanna get this animation done, so I keep working in my scarce free time. Now I'm completely reworking the lipsync area. Body still needs some love here and there but that will came later.






If there is someone outthere, please let me know what do you think! ;D

Thanks in advance.

November entry

This is an updated version of my november entry for the 11secondclub is still very wip (need tons of work, lipsync, arcs, inbetweens) but I wanna show you something I'm doing in my free time.

I hate this!!

Well, I was working in my new entry for 11secondclub, just starting to create the main poses for the characters, I was almost left behind the fear when you start to develope a new scene from zero and I was enjoying the proccess of pushing further the main poses triying to make then more appealing etc.. and then disaster the main character get screwed (Gods knows why) and I loose a few hours of work. I usually save often because of this but you know s*** happens.
It's really sad that our work can be destroyed by these 3d tool, in my opinion, less and less realiable and buggier in every new version.

Well I feel a bit (just a bit) better I will start again.

Halloween

So is this days usally take place stories about people coming from death and that kink of stuff. Somethings similar happened to this blog. Let's see if is only a bad dream or becomes real.

Links

So finally I added this section to my blog. You can find some interesting links to some friends I've got distributed all around the world. I know I'm probably forgeting some people so more links comming soon.

GASOLine

One of the greatest achivement for Spain in the international competition was the FIBA World Championship. The team won for the first time in our history the gold medal, leaving behind teams like USA (eliminate by Greece), Serbia, Argentina or Greece. What is the secret for this great achivement. Not only the NBA player Gasol could make this happend. The main reason because this team won the championship is because ALLWAYS wanted more ALLWAYS wasn't enought. When this team had an advantage of 20 point over their rival, they wanted to have 30 points. That's the secret.
Well this has something in common with animation, the main subject in this blog, probably not... but have a lot with wanna be a good animator. Is a lesson of how things are posible, working hard and wanting ALLWAYS more.

One month and no post in this blog.

Hi everyone! I just wanna let you know this blog is still alive. The last month was busy as allways but this new month begins with new perspectives, I almosth finish some freelance working I'd been working in this months. I'll go on vacation for a few days and hopefully I'll come back with new energy and with time to materialize finally all the good things have been happpening to me in this year.

Good night and Good luck!! ;)