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Look what I found! A former co-worker of mine at Digital Kitchen, Chris Abbas, updated his reel. He's an amazing designer, and I thought I'd share my personal favorite piece that I saw (and actually helped on, a little!) in production at DK.



Check out the rest of his stuff! Really inspiring!

Edit: whoops, looks like vimeo plus won't let me embed. Here's the direct link.

Whip Wave

I have so much to learn. I've been reading Elemental Magic: The Art of Special Effects Animation, and there's just a ton of really great material. Stuff I can't wait to put into practice.

Speaking of! In chapter 2, he talks about Whip and Wave effects, with a small cycle in it. I thought I'd compile it together for reference purposes. Then I did a little rotoscoping, then I just had a little fun with it. Here's my result:



The right is straight out of the book. The middle is my own scratchy drawing, and then the left is just a little blur and color addition. All Photoshop CS5. A forty five minute exercise during lunch today.

Inspiration

Here's a bunch of pieces I've found inspiring to me and the work I've been doing these last few months.


Esmeralda Fire Dance


Steaming City


The Unseen Sea


Chris Graf.

Runaways. Of Course. :)


Fivel Goes West; Tilly's Cleaning/Singing sequence.


Another Don Bluth Piece - Anastasia; Once Upon a December Sequence.

Castle Crashers


Psyop's Guinness Dot Commercial

Presents!

Lookee what I got for Christmas!



I'm way too excited to crack it open. Check out the author's blog!

Cinema 4D part 2

So, I'm now a member of this forum, and it's absolutely wonderful and informative. I hope to utilize this resource as much as I can. They helped me out with my C4D problem.

It was so simple! I just had to adjust the rotation of my buldge deformer. I feel kind of stupid, but it's always something little like that when you're learning a new program. The big stuff is all the same, but all the details are just slightly different.

Anyway, here it is.





Looks way cooler, no?

Cinema 4D

I decided I'm going to learn Cinema 4D - so to kick things off, I followed this tutorial. But something is amiss. I'm using a later version of C4D than the one in this tutorial (maybe it's earlier? shit, I don't even know). Something about the Bend deformer not working properly. Hopefully I'll have this all sorted out next week.

Here's the WIP

Dedicated to My Friend

So, I've been animating in Photoshop lately, and it's really cool. It's like... a combination of animating in Flash and After Effects, except... rasterized. Anyway, I decided to smash this little piece together (literally, minutes of effort - haha filters), dedicated to my friend John Mark. Because he's cool. And I didn't feel so bad stealing his video from youtube.

Enjoy!

Aquarium

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention I got an internship!! At Digital Kitchen, no less! It's an amazing emmy-winning-and-nominated studio that does a lot of commercials and trailer-type work. I'm just a lowly intern, but I'm really enjoying my time here and the people. It's been a slow start, but graduation is TOMORROW, so I think once I have that out of my hair, I can really dig in a learn a lot!

Here's a little something I did on like.. day two when we had a bit too much down time. Just after effects and particles. (You can see I used the seaweed technique on the Persona project for school - which my brother is currently putting music on, so that's something to look forward to!)