Happy New Year

Back in Brooklyn now and ready for thee Animation

Comets the funnest

Hey posting some more flash im working on. I want to make a little natural disaster simulator. You just click the button then click again/drag to create. If you have any ideas for Disasters please post em they dont have to be natural disasters any scary catastrophic death toll creating force is good. Gotto play with ways of killing off the crowd. Oh and thesis is getting worked on too...

flash hw

Marty took Lola to get spaded today. yeesh can only imagine how awful shes feeling shes sleeping a lot and moving really slow moving very carefully, hoping she bounces back soon.

cant wait till vacations actually here i mentally started it

render madness

so todays Post isnt as juicy as i planed it to be, just have some renders and the cracked ground im working with

Ego Tumbling Humbling

making a resume is the most humbling experience I've had since High School baseball when i didn't even try out for the team..

In Thesis news ive finally come to the realization that i wont be using displacement maps for anything in my thesis. Oi wasted a lot of time playing with them for the ground but bumps along with textures work just fine and are much more manageable. so if all's good i should be posting something juicy Wensday...so stay tuned....lol

Animation

(Re-worked the animation a bit)
First Animation, still not finished, (sorry to mis-lead you with the render its a playblast)
any crits appreciated im going to fix the hands up a bit tomorrow still think they're a bit floaty. but yeah heres a real post cause i havent done one of those in a while

funny webcomic just found it tonight, pretty silly but pretty funny.

He can EAT!!

This occlusion pass is dedicated to a man that loves all things occlusion the same man that has given Kurrent the ability to emote and be all that he can be. Thank You Shayne Ryan

finally reading the Animator's Survival Guide and it is gooo-oood so far its just what i needed i think. it has lots of little nuggets of wisdom from great animators and its actually written with computer animators in mind at points i was surprised to see

Hey i found a great read about independent video games, thought id share it here in case anyone is interested

http://www.tigsource.com/features/spirit.html

As you can SEE an empty hat at first. But whats this a RABBIT...or rather a flash home work assignment.

"Boredum is Laziness Excitement is Happiness"

My life right now is like when your in the shower and the waters just a little too cold so you turn the heat knob up and you think at max twist its still too cold. give up, then go back to the knob to turn again to find that it just got stuck and there was still some nice twist, once twisted you are greeted with the warm water you wanted

Ive been listening to some books on tape lately which is great cause its hard to get my self to pick up a book lately, listened to "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", and now "The 4 Hour Work Week" which are great!

and im in a good place, another positive happening was with my toilet today.

after a week or more of a busted porcelain throne which involved filling up a big bucket usually twice to fill the basin every time you needed to go. The jamed water hose that could finally is and it flowed freely in a glorious fashion this morning... so much so that i made a little doodle of it. see.


glorious.

So to wrap up im just thinking the worlds too big and lifes too short at the moment hope alls good by you

now for something completly different

little interactive excercise

hot head

drawing that kinda shows where my mind is at times. at times i feel like doing a zillion things at the same time, usually ending up with nothing to show for it but a hot head

almost ready for animation!

Soo Kurrent's Uv's are complete now aswell and he's looking hungry for some seeds, so im going to try and get them rigs done now

Just watched The Host tonight and it was not at all like i expected i really liked it. It doesnt take it self too seriously and its really quality cinematography/CG check it out

sorry that came out like a Reading Rainbow review but i dont want to get into specifics and give anything away/ build it up more than i all ready have... because i went into it expecting a terrible movie that was in that really gruesome trend like hostile or saw.

not a major update; Warren's UV's are done and i plan on finishing Kurrents tonight. This render suprised me cause theres all these imperfections on Warren's bump right now but this lighting kinda hides those.... So i posted it captures the fellows i just pushed a little smirk on Warren

Let it fall apart and then come together again

Greetings from the weird and bizarre world of UVing

hey extremly inspirational artist Ben Fiquet worked on the shorts Burning Safari and Pyrats
i love his style, and want to texture my characters in a similar way

i love the internet some times. While i havent left the house today, i was able to see some cool animals from the Foja Mountains

Banker

Hello hello, worked on a new flash today hope its appealing to others, im not sure if im getting a little obsessive with the realm of old Andrew Jackson political cartoons, its fun getting away from thesis for a bit i like juggling ideas around. But i dont like the amount of work still left to do on the big T. My teacher gave me the neck animation and he's going to explain how he did it tomorrow very excited to find that out. The JACKSON GAME will be made one day

ive been pulling and pushing verts all day but i think im finally happy with Kurrents silhouette

jackson t

I made a Jackson T-Shirt! doesnt look exactly like this i hand drew it on the shirt so it changed but thats the jist (thats not my torso)

Flash version of Sow or Reap, it pretty much hits all the main points

Egon Scheile

Hey, i just stumbled on some work by Egon Scheile the other night and i really really am digging it. Some of it i think embodies the character im trying to make with Kurrent in ways i dont think im able to explain so im thinking about maybe adding some Egon kinda anatomy lines to Kurrents models cause its still not quite singing to me, how feel you? (Comment with anything at all related or not, curious if anyones reading)

eyes

Warren Model

Warrens looking ever so nice and clean now all thanks to my good friend Sylvia who just slaved today fixing my sloppy mesh. Really brought the character out in ways i could never.

Getting closer to animation =D

Jackson

new flash tinkering

I watched Barack Obama's speach tonight at washington sq park so im thinking about politics

Cause this blog is really dedicated to Lola

Walk Cycle home work, not great Kurrent probably wont move very much like this but its some more character development, and id rather animate my characters over some generic rig

ANTIMATTER EXPLOSION COMING AT YA

kaboooom

I love my flash class, heres my home work for tomorrow, i get to work out the projects i was thinking about over the summer

short animation

Free T-Shirts

So ive decided anyone that helps me on my thesis will get a Sow or Reap T-Shirt!

ill post pictures later, lame to merchandise characters i know but its free! provided you help me a bit =)

quick Kurrent sketches

off to my first day of class...