Final Animation Assignments

So this was my last week in the Capilano Summer Animation Program (tomorrow's my final day) and I had a blast! The program was way more intense than I thought it would be which I liked alot but took a massive toll on my social life for the summer lol. If anyone is reading this and is looking for a summer animation program, check this one out because it was awesome! I've learned so much these last to months that I can't imagine how much I'd learn if I went to school for 4 years, at calarts hopefully:D!!! Anyways here are my final animation projects. I kind of had to rush on one of them to get something to show my teacher, but he wasnt marking them hard anyways, so it's missing some inbetweens and only the major keyframes have been tied down. Blogger is acting weird and wont let me embed youtube videos so ill just post the url link.

This was my final animation for my hand-drawn animation class and it doesn't look the greatest because some idiot turned night mode on on the pencil test camera and i didn't notice till i was halfway done filming and compositing the curtain overtop of the guy so I was too lazy to reshoot it. So there's alot of detail in the face that's hard to see :(.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFd-wcCsNn0&feature=channel

This is the assignment I had to rush through. It was for flash class and we were aloud to animate whatever we wanted. I hate animating in flash using the cutout technique so I just hand drew it on the Cintiq in TV Paint. I think it will be alot better if i finish it .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCbuh66YcrM&feature=channel

I have a bunch of assignments from Design class that I'll try posting on the weekend.

Life Drawings (August 20, 2009)

Here are some of my drawings I did today at Basic Inquiry. I was trying out different things and some turned out well, others didn't but I got a couple I like quite a bit. I also did some more traditional 5 minute drawings just so I can improve on that still. I really hated how this model did all sitting or lying down poses, it was so annoying because standing poses can be so much more dynamic!

1This one (above) looks so much better in real life cuz my camera cant pick up all the shades of yellow that well in this lighting D:< !!!

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This one's head is big on purpose by the way, if it just looks like a mistake to let me kno plz.

Dialogue Animation

This is my last assignment for animation class. I'm half done but I thought I'd post what I've finished so far.

This assignment's been really hard because it's been difficult to keep the size of the fish consistent

since the basic shape of a fish is an oblong oval. When foreshortening and distortion happens, it

makes it really hard to resort back to the original shape. Surprisingly I find it easier to animate

people because when foreshortening and distortion happens on some of the limbs or body parts,

you can always use the rest of the body as reference for the proportions. I also didn't draw the

dorsal fins and such or Nemo's stripes because they're a pain in the ass to keep consistent aswell.

Now I know why this movie was animated in CG lol. Let me know what you think about it though.

Newer Life Drawings

These are just a couple of my favourites from today and tuesdays classes. Sorry I forgot to rotate some of them, just tilt you head please cuz I'm to lazy to re-upload them.

I still had time left after finishing the last pose on this page so I decided to put something stupid on the page that means nothing as a joke of how people do stuff like this to seem edgy but when they do it just comes off contrived and weird. I kinda regret doing it because you can't tell it was a joke just by looking at it lol...

I really like this one:
This is actually the same drawing I just changed it and accidentally posted both photos.

My First Animations

Here are some animation assignments I did at Capilano Animation throughout July. I just finished up a walk and run animation a couple days ago which I'll post tomorrow probably and I'm going to be finishing up my first dialogue assignment (which is animated to an audio clip everybody probably knows...but I'm not gonna say because it's a surprise) tomorrow which I'll also be posting soon, if all goes well 8-| ). I also have an older assignment that needs some fixing before I want to post it. This is my first time doing real animations since I've only done flipbooks with stickmen during 6th grade and a terrible flash cartoon I made in 9th grade.

In case you're interested (or if anyone's even reading this), here's the piece of crap flash I made in 9th grade...don't judge me based on this lol.

I'm pretty happy with my animations so far and so is my teacher apparently, I've gotten 100% on almost

my assignments except 1 or maybe 2 that i got 98% (I also have the highest mark in my class out of

26 students:D!). I don't think these are really portfolio demo reel quality but I don't really know so let me

know if you think I should include these in a demo reel when I apply to Calarts.

New Life Drawings

So I've been taking a summer animation program at Capilano University to prepare for the portfolio I'll be sending to Calarts and some other animation schools. I was planning on posting every once in awhile during the course but that hasn't really been happening (as you can see:) ). Anyways I'm gonna do a big huge update right now with some life drawings I've done and some animations, but I'll separate them up into different posts, why, because I feel like it dammit >:| !!!!

Anyways here are some of the drawings I've done throughout July. I kind of like some of them, but I'm really scared that my portfolio won't be ready by December because I hate most of the drawings I've been doing. The class has been kind of traditional in the teaching approach to animation so I've been trying to experiment more ( aka disobeying the teacher) but I don't think I really have the hang of it yet:(. These are mostly just gestures since we don't get very much time to do longer poses, which pisses me off kinda. There's also a still life drawing in there. Here we go...

HAPPY CANADA DAY!

Today is
Canada
Day

I thought I'd make a post for today, Canada Day, to show my patriotism:). Canada has an amazing music scene but i don't think it's very well known outside of the country. So I've decided to compile a list of my favourite Canadian bands. So if you're reading this, give these bands a listen.

Sam Roberts (he is a god of music, so I chose 3 of my favourite songs, but he has so many good ones! I saw him in concert in March and he was even better live:O)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l46wrY1Rk38 Them Kids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l46wrY1Rk38 Bridge to Nowhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOnSP7q8z4 Words and Fire

The Arcade Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNfWC4Sgkcs Rebellion (Lies)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKC5pyOKFU&feature=related Intervention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKC5pyOKFU&feature=related Wake Up (This was used for the 'Where The Wild Things Are' trailer so you may have heard it before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEZockGkEyY&feature=related Keep The Car Running

The Tragically Hip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN25TcN--I8 In View

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyMHiGXU3DM Love Is A First

Metric (They just recently released an amazing new album called Fantasies which both of these songs are from but the bands been around for alot longer than that so you should check out some of their older stuff too if you like these)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqldwoDXHKg Gimme Sympathy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEz8N8AT-yo Sick Muse

City and Colour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RZW5_fZZpI&feature=fvst Sleeping Sickness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1-3hsqOWE Save Your Scissors

Alexisonfire (Dallas Green, from City and Colour, is in this band which is alot harder rock than City and Colour but even if you don't like the screaming in this band just give it a couple minutes and you'll hear the contrast of the two singers which is really cool)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJcZaS0JthA Boiled Frogs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Ivt-ikYIk This Could Be Anywhere in The World

The Stills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAVIsiLTNTY Being Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXXU7dcfFnY&feature=related Still In Love Song (There's no music video for this one but this is the song put to some weird anime montage. Oh yeah it also starts off with a Rammstein song or something but that ends like 20 seconds in)

Mobile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxkNLkpZsFU Out Of My Head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7egnAX6gm0&feature=related The Killer

Jon and Roy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmbX_W8FX2E Little Bit of Love(This is the only video of this song on youtube)

Tegan and Sara (They're twins so they have really cool harmony, plus they're from Vancouver:D, most of the bands on this list are either from Victoria or Toronto.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqrFbmC6PsU The Con

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysGPmSzR9jc Call It Off

The Dudes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILb4MU39GtE Do The Right Thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22CgMYDBHE&feature=related Pretty Lies (I don't know who made this but it has kittens fighting!! HARDCORE!)

Rush (This band is very well known around the world but I put it on here anyways because theyre godly)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA Tom Sawyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mwiURyX2B4 Limelight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_PPzcpeBw Xanadu

There are many more but I know this is already many more than anyone's actually going to listen to. The sad thing is alot of the Canadian music that does make it out of the country is absolute shit, (i.e. Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, Celine Dion).

Lol I posted way more than I intended so good job if you made it the whole way! Happy Canada Day!