Thursday, June 14, 2007

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Squawk!!!


Shrieking horrors sporting razor sharp talons, and capable dropping out of the sky like a falcon to tear hapless adventurers to shreds, the comparison to certain ex-girlfriends seems, sadly, unavoidable. Perhaps a lack of communication, far too little of the precautionary medication, or even their sense of reality being more flexible than is healthy, has resulted in the Harpies' regrettable state of affairs. Pity them or not, they will still eat your momma.

Made this for a rotoscope of a 3D caracter I am working on. I love my fantasy!

Friday, May 25, 2007

The Graphic Truth Of My Life


Bitterness towards Family Guy

Time spent defending the continuous quality of the show

Likelihood of saying, "Come on guys, from The Simpsons?" after obscure quotes

Amount you appreciate Maggie

Average screen time given to your favorite character (known as the Cletus Conjecture)

Belief that learning the greater Simpsons vernacular is a cromulent activity that embiggens the mind

Amount that you "get" Comic Book Guy

Monday, May 14, 2007

Work Roster pt. 2

53 sec, keyed, timed, and captured, (no F-curves) for Friday.

Monday, May 07, 2007

New website!

Everyone should check out http://catoanimation.blogspot.com/ it's the schools cool new animation department blog thingy!

Work Roster

Goal for this week: 45 sec. of finished animation for next week.

The onus of creativity has lifted!

Francisco said that I could use the animation that I need to do for “Starlight, Too Bright” could be counted as my work for ANI300. This removes the need for me to write another story AND frees up more time to make the animation sparkle. This removes a great weight from my shoulders. Suddenly I am feeling really positive about this semester!

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Free Comic Book Day 2007

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!! FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!! FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!!


As the name implies, Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world are giving away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores.
Comic books are an original nerd art form, created in the early days of the twentieth century. They are fun to read, featuring a wide range of diverse storylines that capture the imagination of the readers, and have survived: the dominance of radio, the ubiquity of television, the spread of color and sound motion pictures, the rise of videogames, and the Internet. That's worth celebrating in my book.
This year I celebrated with Page After Page here in Kelowna, it was truly awesome. I picked up six free books, raging for the big boys at Marvel and DC to more Indy fare like a compilation from Slave Labor Graphics. I managed to talk Luke into getting a pile to; he said that when he is done reading then they can join the rest of my collection in Mylar bliss forever and ever.



Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Goofy rides again!

Animation fans and kids alike can tell you that some of the funnies stuff EVER to come out of Disney were the Goofy "How to" series narrated by John McLeish. I look forward to seeing this, and ferverantly hope that this marks a new lease of life on the forgotten genre of the comedic classically animated short.



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Saturday, April 21, 2007

''Denny Crane. No comment. The blind shall lead. Only in America. Denny Crane.''

Quick little update, I think I'm ready to start using paint, not just moving stuff around.

''Pop goes the weasel. How are you? Denny Crane. Still cuckoo for Coco Puffs. Who's your daddy? Denny Crane. Pop goes the weasel.''

For our first assignment in Z-brush, Francisco asked us to turn the generic head into the head of a celebrity; I chose one of my favorite actors, William Shatner, star of anything he gets paid for. I'm about 4 hours in at this point and it has become painfully clear that I was not meant for modeling.


Saturday, March 24, 2007

Time Up!!

Time is up! I did the best I could I suppose.
Next semester tweaks? Oh yhea.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Hmmmm

I might be able to salvage this after all.

6 Hrs. XSI 6

Uggg

Why do I even try. I so can't animate.

4 hours in.

Bus Ticket

Blocky is trying to catch the invisible bus, but loses his in visible ticket! What will happen next?

XSI 6.0 6 hours.

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Animation Drill

Animation drill, get it?

Friday, March 02, 2007

Worst... lipsync... ever!

Comic book guy prevents a doomed marriage.
I heart dope sheets!

Lip sync in XSI 6
6 hrs.
Audio courtesy of "The Simpsons"