AM Class 2 Week 2 – Blocking
Back for a little update, we just had to block all the animation poses. Here’s what I came up with:
AM Class 2 Week 1 – Psychology of Body mechanics
Hey all! After a two weeks break, AM starts back again and I’m in class 2. For this week, we had to choose in a list of suggestions an animation that will keep us busy for 4 weeks and we had to do a video reference and the planning, here’s the planning:
AM Class 1 Week 12 Final Review
This is the end of first class at Animation Mentor, time is going really fast. For this week, we just had to review all our work done this class, polishing some stuff, compiling everything in a single movie. I tweaked some shot and rendered everything so you get a nice clean review of the work … Read more
AM Class 1 Week 11 Assignment
We’re now close to the end of the first class, one week left! This week was quite harder than the others. We had to finish the “Ballie walking with personality” animation. I wanted to make it feel a bit heavy, walking and whistling in the street. For this week we also had to pose Stu … Read more
AM Class 1 Week 10 Assignment
A lot of work for this week. We had to block Ballie walking with personality, we also had to adjust the vanilla walk for the revision and finally we had to pose stu communicating an exhausted feel.
CamRIG – rigs to animate your 3D cameras
Hi all! I’ve got something great to share with you. I hope you’ll be pleased. It’s something about cameras. I see too many cool animations killed by a crappy camera animation. I also know that animating a camera in a 3d package is something really hard, … and boring too! What can I do for this? … Read more
AM Class 1 Week 9 Assignment
Hey there! Let’s see what I’ve got for you this week. Well, I had to finalize my last week’s vanilla walk. I also had to pose Stu in order to communicate a “concerned” feel.
AM Class 1 Week 8 Assignment
Starting to learn walk-cycle this week. It will be split in two weeks. This week I only had to make a stepped animation. Here comes the revision of last week’s shot.
AM Class 1 Week 7 Assignment
It’s crazy to think it’s already week 7, almost 2 months of AM learning have past! This week was awesome! We had to choose between animating a one leg ball jumping or animating Tailor, a ball with a tail. I choose the second one and here’s my animation: And here is my planning sketch, for … Read more
AM Class 1 Week 6 Assignment
For this week, the aim of the assignment was anticipation and overlapping actions. We had to animate a pendulum and here’s what I came up with:
AM Class 1 Week 5 Assignment
This week was the Stretch & Squash week. We had to animate a ball through an obstacle course and we also had to recreate a pose with Stu showing a “devastated” state.
AM Class 1 Week 4 Assignment
Here comes a new one! For this week we had to animate two bouncing balls with different weights: a light ball and a heavy ball. Here’s what I came up with. No stretch and no squash for this week, we still keep it simple.
AM Class 1 Week 3 Assignment
It’s already my third week following Animation Mentor’s school. We had to sketch a character showing “Excitement” and to recreate it using Animation Mentor’s rig: Stu. For this week we also had to make a bouncing ball animation. Here’s what I came up with: And here comes the revision:
First Animation Mentor Assignement!
It’s a great day, I sent my first assignment today! We had to find a pose by drawing sketches and then recreate the pose using Stu.
Some little tips’n tricks about 3ds Max
I know some people that want me to share some of my tips and I have some tricks to share too so I decided to write a few lines and to give you some usefull links to improve your workflow. 1. Use and customize quad menu to quickly access some option easier instead of navigating … Read more
Animation Mentor starting this fall!
It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been studying Maya for a few months now and I applied to Animation Mentor last July. I just have a few papers to send and I’ll be ready for 18 months full of animation! I’ll surely post some animations done there. I also got a small … Read more
Insert Coin Public Release
Yes here it comes, after a little month polishing and editing the last parts of the short it is finally released on the web! You can like, dislike, comment, add to your bookmarks or whatever you want to do with it! For more informations only one link: www.insertcoinlefilm.com! Credits: Alisson Thiébaut, Beucler Louis, Garcia Tunon … Read more
Lifting and new website!
After months of inactivity on school servers, I moved my website to another host to customize a little the wordpress theme. I included some jquery animations and a completely new gallery. Hope you like it!
Website of our end-of-study work : “Insert Coin”
Last year you’ve been able to follow the steps of my little short project, this year you’ll be able to follow another of my work. For our end-of-study work, we have to work in team. We are three in my team and we will create a 3d animated short. You know the title: “Insert Coin”. Here … Read more
A little WIP
A few days ago, I started to learn V-ray, a powerfull rendering engine. I started a new personal project and here’s a render of this work in progress. Hope I find some time to finish it.