Animation Mentor Class 1 - Progress Reel

Well, Class 1 is over and I'm well into Class 2 (Psychology of Body Mechanics).  I guess I haven't been updating my progress as nearly as often as I thought I would.  I guess it is what it is. So here it is:

All Hail Panocamera!

So my dear friend and super-genius Steve Chapman , who is now a collaborator at the great website HDRLabs, created a very cool DSLR Camera Controller interface using a Nintendo DS.  It's truly amazing.  It can set exposures time, control image bracketing (for shooting HDRs), control time-lapse photos, and the list goes on and on!  Now I just hope to someday have the time to actually use the thing!  I hope they don't mind but I hijacked the photo :(

Animation Mentor Class 1 - Week 2 - Complete

This weeks assignment seemed to be mostly based on observation.  We were ordered to draw people in various stages of doing stuff, and stuff is used loosely...  After completing a bunch of sketches we were to try and mimic and improve upon (make more visually appealing) said pose using the Stu character provided by AM.  I love fencing and miss it dearly, as I have not been in a year now... very depressing.  With that it mind and knowing how dynamic some of the positions related to Fencing can be I chose to pose Stu doing an Epee lunge.  I haven't received my mentor critique yet buy I think it's pretty good!

Disregard all previous posts...

Please disregard all previous posts on this blog.  I have turned into a lazy fat slob.  On a lighter note (lighter...  get it?), I have started my first class at Animation Mentor.  I got to meet everyone from my class tonight including my mentor Hyrum Osmond (yes he's related).  It is very exciting and I really look forward to doing some animating.

Army of Two Commercial

Tina recently found an article about a commercial I worked on while at Zoic.  Check it out, all done in Maya and Mental Ray.  I did modeling, texturing and shading on the car.  http://www.cgnews.com/2010/01/zoic-brings-adrenaline-to-army-of-two-spot/