Animation Intensive 05: ABC Lipsynch

Oh, this is the worst. I really hate lipsynch. Bottom teeth all over the place! None of the mouthshapes make sense. Also the audio really does drive you crazy after a while.


For the record, all of these have been animated in Toon Boom Animate Pro 2.

Animation Intensive 04: Hands

Hands are hard! Really hard.

Animation Intensive Video 03: Sid

This one was a subtle facial-gesture animation exercise. I am happy with the beginning, but it all goes a bit pear-shaped in the end.

Animation Intensive Video 02: Baby, Adult, Geriatric

For my Animation Intensive class I'm taking this semester, our second assessment piece was the Sphinx's Riddle, with a child, adult, and geriatric animation required. The standard was very rough, with mostly keys and breakdowns, though I know I missed a lot of breakdowns on the adult video. Also the volumes on the old man are terrible.

Baby


Adult


Geriatric

Animation Intensive Video 01: Longjump

For our Animation Intensive class this semester, we have to hand in weekly animations (usually only rough keys and breakdowns) and the first one was an athletic performance.

I did the long jump.


Volume consistency? What volume consistency?

Where Have I Been?

I've recently started university again in Brisbane after a semester abroad at San Jose State University, California.

It was an amazing education experience and I learned so much both from my teachers and the other students in the degree there, who are all passionate and committed and just awesome people. I also received a huge amount of professional advice from both guest lecturers who visited the school and the lecturers who had a wealth of industry experience which they loved to share (that guy not jumping on the left? Taught me storybarding and is now an art director at ILM, San Francisco). The honest, respectful and passionate atmosphere of the classes was a top-down philosophy which the SJSU animation community encouraged at all levels of the program.

I also traveled around the US and Canada a bit at the end of my time there, and spent most of my time in museums and art galleries expanding my art experience and knowledge at places like The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which contain the originals of works of art I love but until recently I had only seen digital or printed copies of.

So, despite missing all my friends in California (and the other places of North America I visited) I'm starting this semester feeling settled and confident in my direction this year, and hopefully will be able to maintain it until I finish up at the end of it all. Whatever happens, I will probably be back next year doing honours, since I know if I want to compete with international graduates, I will need at least 4 years at university for any kind of art-related career field overseas.

Fire It Up!