Whats up with the world, part 2

Well it looks like AutoDesk is taking it over..

Good or bad? well looke at the clip:_)


when AutoDesk took over Maya things actually worked out in the end. Maya I think benefited from this and the software is getting better. XSI however was getting better, faster, more intuitive than ever on its own. Wonder what will happen with all the good crazy ideas that XSI threw in every other developers faces..

I do hope that I'm wrong and that Maya, my weapon of choice will grow into a better software due to this.....time will tell :-)

cheers
/Tommie

Was up with the world?

That's a bold Title I might say, especially for a blogger that very seldom bloggs at all :-)
Well the Economy is going to hell, war everywhere you look. People losing there homes and a trillion other things that is going wrong. Its strange that we humans actually evolved so much that we could create this global events like stock market crash and global heating....impressing :-)

Well enough about that, just wanted to ventilate a bit and its my blogg so I can do that without asking anyone, which is a scary thought if you think about it...

Will start to post some WIP's from various private projects that i doodle with on my spare time. If anyone is actually reading my blogg(miracles do happen) please fell free to comment on the stuff...

cheers
/Tommie

ILM dose feature

This is going to be interesting, ILM doing a feature. Jar Jar Binks comes to my mind.....:-)
LINK

The Melvin Short

The short film I'm working on is closing in on its last lap. We have almost all the shots animated and the rendering soldiers are starting to push out some really nice stuff....see more here.

Will also post some WIP's on my new short/feature project, thought it would be a good idea to get some audience thoughts early in the project :-)

seeYa in like 6 months :-)
cheers
/Tommie

not giving up on my blog

this must be one of the "deadest" blogs around :-)

Well It aint over until the fat lady sings, they say. You could argue that she has been signing her lungs out on this blog for quite a while now :-)

However I found this on the Internet that I really liked, and maybe you will to :-)

04

hi..so...haven't had much time to work on this (excuses, excuses bla bla) but I have done some Breakdowns and inbetweens. still more breakDowns needed, especially in the end. Still working in "stepped Key" but I am switching between linear and stepped. I will after this phase go to linear and leave stepped.



Arcs. I put a lot of focus on the arcs, and even then I think I'm a bit sloppy. Shame on me..
I use a program called annoatePro (another Keith Lango tip), you can draw right on top of the clip. Its a very fast way of checking arcs. I mean if I had an old monitor I could use ordinary whiteboard pens, but I don't..okay!! :-)

03

..ok next I pose all the keyposes, at this moment I just place them on frame 1,2,3 and so on, that's all in the spirit of Keith Lango. Can't tell you enough good things about Keith Lango.
Anyway, then I spread them out in the timeline. First I of course look at my analyze, it provides a fairly good map to follow. Then I fine tune the timing of the keyposes by feel.

So here is the first ruff keypose straight out of Maya:




to be honest the keyposes needs fine tuning, and they will get it...but I need sleep so it will have to wait :-)

cheers
/Tommie

02

Ok...next step

so.. after analyzing the sound, I start drawing.
First I try to have all the keyPoses done, and I often do it right over the sound analyze. Don't know why, it just feel natural to draw the poses more or less where they concur with the sound.

After that I start to breakdown different idea's and details, and of course the endless search of the perfect keyPose..

Then I tend to want to test some of the motion in ruff thumbs before I destroy the animation in Maya:-)

So...that's all for today, next I guess I will go digital...

01

Well, first blogg-projects on the way........ found this sound on the Internet: http://www.pigbelly.com/blog/files/slightlyconfused_192K.mp3 found it to have kind of nice changes but still a good beat to it. Listened to it for about 400 times (well 200)....well okay 34 times minus the one where my son interrupted me with a ice cream request. I naturally gave it to him, I mean I got to keep him happy if I ever going to finish this :-) anyway, analyzing the sound: So, what I do is that I listen and then draw the high and lows, this is a very good thing to do when trying to catch the flow of the dialogue. I also circle the hard words like M, P, F and so on.. next I start drawing poses.....but right now....I sleep :-) cheers /Tommie

still testing.....
:-)))