Happy New Year 2015

Dropping a monster reel in the future.  Here is a new piece blocked and brokedown with rough lipsync.
Underground and street flavor from my roots..

Alive and Kicking

Yep been trucking along getting into bmx on the side to keep in shape from splitting time with animation to live longer and stronger.  Had to tone down a bit on the struggle slight break in plans but I'm back at it again.
The recent CTN Expo I dropped a new reel despite my home pc died on me, luckily for my trusty laptop I've been putting in an hour a day faithfully animation in my regular job during lunch. 

Check it.

Gotta keep going

Wooo... Ctnepo countdown begins to recharge the inspiration tank and get more killer info, took a nice month off not animating hard to concentrate on my surroundings in life.  Feel great and will come back stronger than ever.  Till then smash hard next level and out do yesterday..

Christian Bale's Batman Audition

This is cool.

Chris Kirshbaum Demoreel 2013

So glad my Animation teacher posted his latest reel online.  Chris is an awesome teacher and person.  Iam so lucky to learn under him. And hope to make memorable shots like him one day.  That shot of Turtle Master Oogway "Today is gift, that why it called the present" is my favorite. 

Acting for Animators Lecture

Great Lecture by Bobby Beck.  He did Dash animation on Incredibles.  He is an awesome person I got to meet him once, and got to thank him for his blog and powerful motivational teachings.

Ski Dazzle (Breakdowns)

Phase two is done.  Now to Jump into Spline, Final plus, Polish,fx snow, tracks, Render and fix post.  Stay Tuned.

Ski Dazzle (Keys only) Rough Cut

Yesss!  Drilling along with this new sequence peice.  Got it timed and blocked to my liking.  Check it.

Movin' Forward

Cool.. got this down on this fantastic 4-day holiday from my regular job.  Four more pieces to go for a new reel to attack. Rock on!

Dangerous Job: 100 frame contest at Spungella

This was a blast, everyone needs a deadline.  Too much time make your work lag and mushy.  I was happy with the outcome.  This was what I entered at Spungella.

It will be judged by JD Haas, last I seen him do a walk thru of a shot in Transformers.  So him and his peers he said.  I want to see what others have also.

On to the Next..

Just finished this Master Copy of the cartoony pitcher in the Preston Blair Animation Book.  Under 100 frames not too over whelming but got me out of my funk.  Alot of work but I feel my chops kicking in as I do alot.  Excited to look for excersise to do, but I will still wrap up the "Ski Dazzle "Backgrounds so I can animate it already.  Following is :

With Breakdowns..


The Polished.. "Finished Product"

Sam's Speech

I sure do dig this scene, it totally motivates me to keep on pushing the craft.  Kinda hitting a plateau, with getting fit been away riding BMX more than animating.  Trying to find that happy median, It wont be long.  Push on!

Cool find

Old school Disney Background artists in action..

Back to Grind..

Yes! the 100's trick continues, building up momentum again.  A Mastercopy from Preston Blair's Animation Book. Key's as best I could from feeling and how it looked. Also noticed he had key #'s there so I copied it, and now the fun part, to figure out the cartoony breakdowns, favors, and snap.

Anti-Litter PSA " Eco-mercial©

Wow! another fun project wrapped.  Honing the character animation craft while adding to it the film and production skill progression little by little.  Also added an early animatic from idea to finished product.  




Early Animatic with a scratch track.




Hit the ground running this year.  Stand by for more, cause I'm getting faster and better on each project. 

Happy New Year 2013!

So exciting! A new fresh year to make, do, and learn new greater things.  Here's to 2013 Make it Happen Everyone!  Wooo!  Got to a half-way point on my anti-litter PSA project, 7 more shots to go and an animated logo blaster.  Here are rough renders and poses of the shots to get my bearings my blueprint and got the light almost finalized ( storyboards). 

Merry Christmas!!

Life has been very good to me. A spectacular year, hope the same to all and more.  Keep the dream alive, share great things and experiences with everyone. Always help to push next level, have an extreme passion to learning and challenges.  Have a Merry Cali-Christmas!! And to more fantastic things in the next year yo!

And a bonus clip from one of my super talented puppeteer friends Kelvin Kao.


     

Popular Science Fleischer Studios The Cartoon Process

 How cool is this,  "Popeye" Incredible footage from the 1930's Whoa...

Urgent Skit Done

Got this one out, quite happy with the outcome.  Fun obstacles to overcome and learn as usual.  Next is "Don't Litter" Commercial , Spidey and Doc Ock blocking, Bk's for Ski Dazzle.  Good times!  Took a year for the "Wrestlin" one to finish and I had to basically re-learn phrasing and dialogue again since I was in body physics mode .  Oh Well..

Disney's Joe Bowers Interview

 This is Fantastic!!!  A great find.  So informative.  A mentor tip finally clicked in with this clip for me.  Thanks to Animschool.

JoeBowers Interview from Frame By Frame on Vimeo.