Animals and Creatures Week 8 and 9

Hello there :)
For weeks 8 and 9 I've started my ogre shot, I wanted keep it simple so I've decided to go with the ogre pushing himself up a log. I wanted to show his weight and also give give him a little attitude, as if he was annoyed and trying to get away from something. So this is the blocking plus :) Next week I will go in to polish. Cheers!

Animals and Creatures Week 7

Hello everyone! I've refined the navigating through a terrain shot more this week. This shot was a great challenge, and I've learn a lot from it. Moving on to the Ogre next week!
So I want to thank everyone for the nominations at AM! I really appreciate it :D It's such an honor to know that my friends at AM approves of my improvements as an animator. I will keep improving and aspire to become the best animator I can be. Cheers!!!

AC Week 6!

Hello! I can't believe week 6 has passed already, time sure fly when you are having fun learning fun stuff.
This is the blocking for my leap and recover shot, I have a lot of revising to do to refine it for next week. So I better get back to work :) Thanks for reading guys!

AC Week 5!

Hello! So in week 5 of AC, I'm still having a blast learning and animating :) I've splined the sneak walk and will be doing some more polish next week. I've also started planning for my next shot, it's going to be a leap and recover on some rocks. I'm looking forward to this challenge. Thanks for reading!

Animals and Creatures Week 5

Hello! For week 5 at AC I've blocked out my sneak walk and will be putting it into spline next week :)
This is really fun!

Week 3 Animals and Creatures

Hello! This week I've done revisions to the Vanilla Walk for the Cat. I also did planning for next week. I will do a stalk walk, it's very exciting to do a more advanced walk :)

Jane Stewart Spring 2012 Show Reel

Responsible for all animation
Rigs provided by Animation Mentor
Animated with Maya

AC Week 2

Hello!

For week 2 we had to do a vanilla walk cycle for the big cat. I did some planning sketches and will be doing a revision in week 3. It was a great learning experience animating the walk cycle, I feel confident going in to the next assignment with what I've learned this week. Cheers!

Week 1 of Animals and Creatures!

Hello all!

I've finished AM and now I'm on to my next challenge/adventure! I have started the Animals and Creatures Master Class with AM. It's super exciting, I'm so happy that I get to learn a whole new set of skills. My mentor Kevin Ohara is a animator at Pixar, and he is extremely talented and I know I will have the best time learning from him. So I look forward to keep you guys posted on my progress. For week 1 we are to sketch some quadruped animals and do 2 poses of the big cat. I had fun with these assignments, enjoy!

Introduction to Acting, Class4!

Hello hello! WOW it's been so long since I've posted, my apologies. A lot has happened since my last post. I'm in Class 4 now, with the fabulous Mr. Dimos Vrysellas! I feel extremely lucky to have such awesome mentors. All of my mentors have just been fantastic, I can't ask for more. So far, I've done an acting shot. The assignment was to animate change of emotions. I chose a very confident super model falling while doing her cat walk, after the fall she becomes embarrassed and ashamed. I will upload the rendered version soon. Most recently I'm working on my very 1st shot with Bishop! I'm really excited to finally get to work with him. The concept is a Pre-Madonna Opera singer notices someone blowing bubbles during his rehearsal, he is less than pleased. He unleashes his wrath upon the poor souls around him. I have about 8 weeks to do the shot all together. Better get back to work! Will post soon ;)

Yikes! Class 3 already!

Hello there :) I can't believe I've completely missed posting all this time! I apologize for my lateness in updating. All is well and I can't be happier with my progress as a student as Animation Mentor. It has been such an honor having the greatest mentor teaching me how to animate. My class 2 mentor was Nick Bruno, who is a supervising animator at Blue Sky Studios. He was really straight forward with his teaching and I've learned a ton about not only animation and the industry from him. He will be well missed as I move on to my next class :) I have Mr. Jay Davis as a mentor for class 3, he is a super talented animator who's worked on Hell Boy : The Golden Army and many more great films. There is never a dull moment with him. I look forward in learning from him and having some great laughs XD So stay tuned for more of my progress! Here is what I've done so far, enjoy and thanks for reading :)

Jackie Chan Contest Entry

I'm really excited about this one. Jackie Chan has a contest where fans can create original art pieces about him and his beloved stuffed panda bears. There will be 3 winners from 3 different age groups. I hope I win because the prize is an autographed portrait of Jackie Chan! Cross my fingers :)

Class1 is over, Class 2 starts Jan 3rd!

Hello, sorry I haven't been keeping up with my posts. I was very busy with all the animation assignments, and I have to say, it was a lot of fun learning and experimenting. I'm sad that class 1 is over, but very excited and looking forward to another wonderful class. So below is my Animation Mentor Class 1 Progress Reel, enjoy!

Class 1, week 3 at Animation Mentor!

Hi guys! I had sooo much fun this week doing my homework. We had to pose Stu to express excitement and do an animation of a basic bouncing ball that has the weight of a basketball or a soccer ball. We learned about timing and spacing and how to make things look believable. I got a lot of great feedback from my fellow AMers, it was great to have their support. I honestly think my animation improved tremendously because of those comments, so thanks guys!

Week 2 of Class 1 at Animation Mentor!

This week we had to go out and sketch people in random poses, and translate that in to the character named "Stu". I was very excited for our 1st real assignment and I think I did pretty good :) It was very cool to get my 1st critique from my mentor Shaun Freeman. He is very awesome! It's only going to get better :D

Week 3 of Spike Sketch Squad (Cute Overload)

Every Animator's nightmare ;)

This is for the Spike's Sketch Squad formed of AM students, this week's theme was worst hero ever! So this is flatulent man and you can imagine how he takes down the criminals. It's really to worst way to go down, so that's way he is mine worst hero ever ;)

http://amsketchsquad.blogspot.com/

Final Week at Maya Springboard!

This week was the last week of Maya Springboard and it has been a great ride. I learned a lot about Maya and feel confident about entering into class 1. Last week we animated a robotic arm that picked up a cylinder, this week we animated a character called one leg. I spent a lot of time tweaking and timing and spacing of things, but the outcome was great! 1st day of class 1 starts on September 27th and I can't wait :D I just received my certificate of completion and I have to say that I am very proud of myself :)

Week 4 at Maya Springboard

Hello again! This week we learned basic animation. We had to animate a ball, this was the very first time I touched Maya animation and it was very interesting. It's starting.... ^o^

这个星期我们开始做动漫. 我们用一个3D的小圆圈当摸特。开始了。。。。 ：)