Walk Of Confidence

Had a go at doing a confident walk!
Had trouble with the arms, not sure whats wrong with them!!
But heres it without the arms :)

If I manage to sort the arms i'll upload it again!

Digital Tutors!

Got myself a copy of Digital Tutors Animating Quadrupeds :D Very cool DVD!
This is what I managed to produce after going throught the tutorial :D

Production Begins!!!

Production on our showreels started yesterday :D Finally animating again...Pre-Production took a while!!
Anyway thought it would be cool to upload some of the work i've done since yesterday.
I'm aiming to upload my progress as I go along!

So far I've managed to block out two of my Stage 1 animations, a biped walk and a quad run!
I've literally just changed the curves on the biped from stepped to spline, so a lot of work needs doing to it! For the quad run I decided to try animating with my tangent handles set to flat for a change and it seems to look ok so far!

MotionBuilder!!

Been using a new software package in uni to animate with called MotionBuilder!
Thought i'd upload some of my work....well one for the time being...the deadlines tomorrow :S

Been A While!!

So like the title says it's been a while since i've actually posted anything and I don't actually have any work to post today but just thought i'd babble a bit!!

So at the moment i'm in the middle of a minor project which is in the middle of the pre-preoduction for my showreel which is also in the middle of my dissertation!!!! :s
Been working with Motion Builder...It's pretty cool I guess, been linking motion capture sequences together but having to somewhere in the middle add our own animation and make it look like one fluid motion!!! Another string to the bow ey!! :D

Went to SAND last week, it was awesome http://www.smu.ac.uk/SAND/
I went on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday! I saw so much cool stuff from different companies I don't know where to start!!! Although I have to be honest the stuff Rythm & Hues http://www.rhythm.com/ showed really blew me away! They were showing us the Hulk rig they used and where talking about the muscle system and how everything worked it was soooo cool! They showed us early animation tests, they blew me away, it was the kind of stuff you see that makes you want to go animate there and then...honestly I had goosebumps!! They also showed us their work for The Mummy:Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, which was asl very very very cool!!

Ivan Moran from Framestore http://www.framestore-cfc.com/#/Home gave a wiked talk on the work they done on Batman the Dark Knight, mainly showing how they done Two Faces ....Face, it was very cool, was really interesting!! He also showed us the trailer of the animated feautre film they've been working on....The Tale of Despereaux which I've already seen on the internet but looked amazing on a big screen!!

How cool is he!!!

One of the coolest showreels I seen over the 3 days though was of Andy Daffys and Matt Estelas for their company The House of Curves...go check it out http://www.thehouseofcurves.com/?cat=17 . It's got a wiked soundtrack!

I also saw some wiked stuff from Double Neg, MPC, Ed Hooks was there!! So ye I had a pretty amazing three days down in Swansea :D

Intro To Maya

Hey it's been a while since i've uploaded anything. Back in uni now so it's been busy.
Over the past three weeks we've been doing an Intro To Maya project. It's been so cool.
We've had to do a bouncing ball, bowling ball, cyclical animation and non-cyclical animations.
Only have my cyclical stuff on me at the moment but i'll upload eveything else soon. Bearing in mind this is the first time i've ever used Maya to animate :D

Oooops

My mistake, it did upload in the end!!
Looking forward to see what feedback I get now :D