Catching up!!!! End of week 4 already!

Wow! Crazy busy weeks so neglected the blog a bit...

For our assignment last week (week 3) we had to revise and tweak our pose, in my case Stu kicking down a door. Tried to make it more cartoony, like he was flying towards the door!

We also had to animate a bouncing all, yesssss our first animation!!!!! I went for the basket ball. It's amazing how much you can learn from bouncing balls!

We also had to pose Stu in an excitement pose, which was quite trick and not easy to get away from the cliché poses. I ended up going for the old heel click. Revision vid is below.

For this week (week 4) we had to revise our Stu pose for excitement, and also animate two bouncing balls with different timing. A heavy all and a light one.  I went for the bowling ball-ish weight and the beach ball-is bounce;

Here's Stu's excitement revision:

Here's the heavy and light bouncing ball Assignment:

Also chucking my sketches so I can hopefully look back later on and see some improvement!

Wohoo Week 3 !

Here we are in week three!! Here is the final Stu pose I submitted for Assignment 2.

Stu Pose in Progress!

Started Posing Stu, still a lot to do on him. I am trying to go for the kicking down door action!

Although now it looks more like he's leaning...

Sketches !

Hey guys here a my sketches. I still do need to improve my sketching a lot! So any tips crits techniques are more than welcome. I Went for pose 9, cos i think it has a good sense of motion.

It's also on my PR page so comments there would be coooooll.

Thanks Guys!

Basic Rendering and lighting tutorial With Springboard Trainer Saeed Abdul!

Hi guys! Saeed Abdul Gafoor,  who was my springboard instructor created this tutorial to give us a hand with basic rendering and lighting with mental ray in maya. He was more than happy to let me put it online so others could benefit from it as well. Check out his work at www.saeedag.com. Enjoy!

Basic Lighting and Rendering with Mental Ray in Maya from Nicholas Matias on Vimeo.

Q&A with Shawn Kelly!

Man o man! Had a Q&A with AM co-founder Shawn Kelly yesterday, well actually very early today. He told us a bit about his story and some adventures in the animation world. It was just awesome, because he's super enthusiastic, funny and a really cool guy. It was really inspiring to hear how he got into the business and what drives him as an animator.

I guess I speak for all that attended that, it really got me pumped and exited about what is to come. More and more I feel that I made the right decision joining AM and embarking on this AMazing  journey!