Dust off the tablet and get those animation gears turning again...

Hello, World!

It is good to be back, and posting again on here. First of all, let me say happy holidays to all, and best wishes towards the New Year!

I have now finished my time at IMAX and I am back at home working on more animation yumminess! I am, of course, still trying to learn as much as I can to become a better animator, so please bare with me if things may seem a bit rough. :P (It has been awhile after all.)

But before I get to what I did today, I just want to first mention a website I have found very useful so far in my pursuit of knowledge. I am currently learning from some of his tutorials found online and and I'm finding them very helpful and inspiring. The website is www.jasonryananimation.com , and oddly enough, his name is Mr. Jason Ryan. He is a supervising animator for Dreamworks, and I believe he just finished working on the last Shrek movie. If you have the time, or better yet just make the time, check out his site and some of his work. Very nice stuff all around.

Anyways, here's two quick clips of a simple exercise I did today to ease back into animation. It also let me test out some new software I found to help doing planning and layout of a shot before even going into a 3D package. The software is FlipBook and sorry for the watermark over top of everything, but I currently just have the trial version.

2D Planning and Layout in FlipBook


3D Animation in Maya


Well, there you have it. Please let me know what you thought. As always, all comments are welcomed! With this post I hope to get back into somewhat of a regular consistency with these posts, so please leave comments to let me know it is worthwhile to keep up on my work! :D

Thanks again for stopping by, and see you next time! Muahahahahahahaha!

Onwards towards the future!

Well, looks like it's been just over a month since my last post...yeah, sorry about that. November was a crazy busy month for me. IMAX was super busy with the rotoscoping work I was doing there, but it looks like things are coming to and end there soon as the project comes closer to an end with each passing day. Soon I'll be on the hunt for another job. Hopefully things have opened up a bit in the industry since the last time I checked the job boards within the area. I, of course have plans to get back to working on animation pieces and refining my skills, but a source on steady income would help further those efforts for sure. I also attended the CTN Expo down in Burbank, CA during November. I was down there for a week, and wow, there is some serious talent down there. I found it all very inspiring and motivating to see so many skilled animators in on place, and willing to give talks to everyone about theirs experiences within the industry. I could write a whole another post on just what it was like at the show, but I don't have the time right now. I have a feeling I'll have some free time real soon, so maybe I'll get to do such a post.

For now though, I just wanted to say that I will be out of work soon and will be on the hunt for something new to experience. Hopefully, it won't be too tough to find my next animation job.