Exercise #3

Almost finished this exercise. This time I wanted to focus on character personality, time, space, weight, and overlap animation. The tail here plays a big role, where I tried to understand how it follows the character and how the character uses it. Thanks for your great help Bryn :)!

Blog Post: Flip - Draw your timing

I was reading Cameron Fielding's blog (FLIP) and I found a great tip for helping understand the timing of the shot. He explains it how to do it using Fcheck drawing capabilities. Thanks a lot Cameron :).

Short Animations: The Saga of Biorn, The Backwater Gospel, Captain Awesome, Mighty Antlers, Last Fall, Salma, The External World

I haven't published for a bit, so I leave you the best short animations that I have seen lately. Very talented people are doing great animation :)! The first 6 are from students at Animation Workshop. The last short is from David O'Reilly.

The Saga of Biorn


The Backwater Gospel


Captain Awesome


Mighty Antlers


Last Fall


Salma


The External World

Books: Character Animation Crash Course

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1879505975

I leave you with a book written by Eric Goldberg, which I did enjoy reading a lot. It covers animation basics to more advanced animation techniques, that even thought are explored for the traditional medium it can be used for other types of animation as well. Is very well written and with very good visual reference. It brings a CD with animated clips that are analized in the book.

Teaser: Mr. Hublot

This is an interesting teaser from ZEILT Productions that it's still on production. The character and animation test look just brilliant. Don't know when it's coming out online, but I do know I want to see it :).

Tutorial: Photoshop and Wacom Basics

I found this great two parts tutorial about the basics of using a wacom in photoshop.
It was created by Feng Zhu.

Blog: Follow-Thought

This has some very, very good explanations about the principles of animation. It's just crazy the amount of information, technique and work that is explored with a "simple" visual exercise.

Follow-Thought

Movies: The Pixar Story and Chuck Jones Extremes & Inbetweens

I found this videos on youtube and is just inspiring to see how this people have passion about what they do. I wish I can be half as inspiring to others as they are to me. They have educated and entertained me in since I was a baby. Thank you all very much :D!

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