Cosmo Animation

I am delighted to say that I will be working as an Animotor on new kids TV show COSMO. I start early next month and goes straight through to November/December.

VFX animation

I started a new class in Ballyfermot doing Advanced Animation in Maya. At the moment we are focusing on doing Vfx type animation. This is a quick cycle I did in a few hours. Im hoping to do a piece that shows the animals actually thinking a bit soon and to attack some four legged creatures while I'm at it. I also started a walk with a triceratops

Its been awhile since my last post on the collective thinking blog so I tried my best to find time to get something done for this months theme The seven deadly sins. I was aiming to show a mood change from one seven deadly sin to another nut couldn't find the time for that but I got around to doing a vanity test.

flash animation

Ws3 Acting

This is how my acting shot turned out after workshop 3 soon to be known as workshop 4 at iAnimate.I still have some small notes on the shot and will hopefully get to applying them over the break. It was a great workshop and learned a lot.

Just a painting I did in my Photoshop Class last night

Acting

So here is my first acting piece for iAnimate. I learnt a lot during this assignment and will take it on board from day one of my next project (which starts as soon as I click upload on this). Any suggestions would be great Ill try get back to them before doing a full render on this.

Design

Just posting some work Ive done at my design for animation class taught by Stephen o Connor of Brown Bag Films. 

 

This First image is from my trip to new grange. I really like the look of the passage ways. No one was allowed to enter this passage way so it has been virtually untouched for many years and it had that feeling about it.

 

This image was straight from the head and it shows, but I learned a lot about using masks in a painting and how hopeful it can be while painting digitally.

Maya modelling Class two

 

Just a few more models I have been working on. I might try and refine the Gun and trumpet a bit more or try some organic models before I move onto a character model next week. The 3d modelling class is going well. I always found modelling fun and relaxing. Its great to get back to it and learn more about Maya at the same time. 

iAnimate Music Video

So this is a music video that we did at iAnimate awhile back, it is aside from our course work and done just for the fun of it. I had two short shots to work on in this and enjoyed them both. My shots are (00:54) Rex the dog jumping up and down and my second shot near the end (03:11) Denis the Dragon chasing Jane the girl. I am working on another student short now and will hopefully have some stuff to show for that soon enough.

maya modelling class one

 

I started the modelling and rigging class in Maya today. We covered the basics tools and went through what we will do over the coming classes. It seems to be all well organized and will hopefully have some nice work to show over the coming weeks. So here is my first ever model in Maya. I think it looks well for a start. I plan on doing more advance models now over the coming weeks and building a small portfolio. My lip sync is coming along well and will hopefully have it up soon. I will be starting the design for animation class on Wednesday so should have something to post then too. Busy Busy Busy  

Flash Animation

Again just a quick animation test done in flash. Its a work in progress as I might put in some facial features or hands

 Just a quick sketch done in photoshop. I start my class next week for design in photoshop for animation as well as a class for rigging and modelling in maya both classes will be thought by Brown Bag Films. It should be fun I'm looking forward to the design class as its a well needed break from 3d thinking.

Just playing around in flash testing a more classical way of animating in flash. Someday I will produce an up to date Flash portfolio showing my current animation skills along with my flash skills..Im sure ill find the time...Id love to give it a go.

What im up to

Ok so let me fill you in on what im doing at the moment. I am nearly finished the first half or Workshop three of iAnimate and will hopefully have a near finished lip sync up in the coming weeks to show people.

I am going to be working on the first iAnimate collaborative student short directed by Andrew Atteberry   who is currently in Workshop 4 of iAnimate. I have been giving an important acting shot in the short and cant wait to get started on it.

If I can find some time I might work on Jason Ryans next Music video project due to start very soon, I am currently finishing up on his present Music video project.

I am doing some Logo designs up for creative energy and possibly for walking experiences.

Along side iAnimate I have applied for two courses set up by brown bag films and BCFE. 
They are Modelling and Rigging in Maya and Design for animation in Photoshop. I want to further my knowledge of Maya as well as modelling and rigging so this is the perfect course for me and I am doing the design class as I think I would enjoy it, learn stuff and simply to take an evening off from animation.

I am also working as an asset creator for an E-training company so we are creating images for a web based training program in Flash, I also have to put a lot of it together using Adobe Captivate and now and again some sound editing in Adobe Sound Booth.

So BUSY BUSY BUSY but all to try help my goal of becoming a better animator and get my dream job of being an animator