The 11 Second Club

Check out the new 11 Second Club! Yep, this one goes to ELEVEN! :)
I still remember the good old days of the late 10 Second Club. Thats where I started my journey to become a character animator... and created some beautifully disgusting animations! No doubt, I learned a lot.

Unfortunately after a few technical problems the 10 second club died. And now, the 10 Second Club is Resting In Peace! Now we have this new 11 second club! Cool! Thanks to Aja Bogdanoff, and her husband Mark for taking all the pain to create this new 11 second club. It is indeed not that easy to maintain and run this kind of club. I hope this one lives forever!
I'm looking forward to participate someday! :)

-A

Victor Navone's thoughts on Ratatouille...

Hi folks!

Check out what animator Victor Navone has to say about their new film Ratatouille. You know, I really can't wait to watch this film in the theaters! Indeed, these movies they make there at Pixar are gifts to the world and especially to us, animators.

-A

And Bamm! - WIP

Hi everyone!
Here's my animation "AndBamm!" just after the linear pass cleanup. Yes, I like to call it "AndBamm!". Aaah! Finally I got some time for this one! I still need to convert it into spline, clean up the whole thing and work more on the ball's overall motion. I'm using this Bloke character for the first time, and I like it!
I tried to make it look like stop motion. I know, I'm not that successful in my attempt. heh.. I just wanted to try something new. Well, here's the preview render of the WIP.... "AndBAMM!!"

After I'm done with this animation, I'll concentrate more on some advanced acting type animations where you'll see some cool camera moves, multiple shots, two person dialog etc. I'm learning more about acting and storytelling now. Learning never stops, huh? Its fun! hehe....

Well for now, I've to clean this up in spline and work more on that ball! Stay tuned.

-A :)

P.S. You can see its 2D planning animation HERE!

Ball Play, PAP

Hi! I'm gonna start one animation. Before I get into 3d, I wanted to plan it out in Plastic Animation Paper. So, here's a rough test animation. Now the problem is... which rig should I use for this kinda animation? I wanted to have a short legged character, so I'm planning to use Bloke (by Jason Baskin). The rig looks pretty good. Though, I'm not too sure about its squash and stretch abilities. I know its quite stretchable, but I wanna stretch the character horizontally. Sadly, I can't do that with any of the free character rigs available. Of course, I can easily create that horizontal squash and stretch effect with my Norman rig. However, I don't wanna use Norman for this type of animation. So I'll just use Bloke! Any suggestions guys?
Anyhoo, here's the rough planning...



Oh yeah! I had to delete my last Harry Potter parody post because some Harry Potter fans (my harry potter loving friends) had problems with that. In the parody movie, Harry Potter really looked like a BIG schmuck. And they didn't like that! It was hurting their feelings. Well, here you go guys! Now you're happy? Common! Its just a parody! And for god's sake, stop worshiping Harry POTHEAD... ummmm.. I mean Potter.. I like Harry Potter too, but I don't worship him! lol....

later,
-A

A ball and a man

Hey guys! I think I'm done with this. I could have cleaned it up more, but I had to wind up my reel. So, this is final.

Cheers!
-A