Quick post

So I'm not quite back in the bay area yet but will be this Thurs! CSU Summer Arts was a fantastic experience!! I wish I can post some of the things I did there but they're mostly cleaning up Motion Capture data and editing, so I'm not really sure what I can post... I'll figure it out!

In the mean time...I've been lacking some posts here so I did a quick sketch:




Hope everyone is having a great summer so far!! :D

Nina

Hey guys!

Alas I was unable to do a small illustration this time... just way too busy! So instead here are some pictures of my new kitten Nina. She's about 2 months old now and I had her since June 1st :).

Update! (Sort of...)

Hey all!

Sorry I haven't been updating my blog lately! It's weird cuz I usually post something pretty regularly.

My summer's been surprisingly busy! My parents finally cut the financial cord so I've been working a lot- a part-time job on the weekends and freelance. I've been so busy that I had to bring my freelance work to my trip to L.A. (I'll be driving back down tonight)!
Production for Dave's new summer film should start on Monday so it will be even more super busy after that!
Next Saturday I leave for Fresno for the CSU Summer Arts: it's a 2 week "boot-camp" style summer camp where I will work with around 30 other student animators and guest artists (like Trevor Tuttle and Charles A. (Chuck) Harvey). I'll be learning motion-capture style and working with Autodesk MotionBuilder. I'm soo excited!! :)

So I apologize for the lack of updates! But I do plan to do what I started last Winter, a small illustration per day! So please stay tuned for some of those! Hope everyone is having a fantastic summer! :)

Last Day of class!

Today was the last day for my Maya Animation class. Primo Navidad was an awesome teacher, and for my first semester in 3-D animation I learned so much and still have so much more to learn! Well here's the demo reel I had to turn in for class:




Huzzah!! Stay tuned for more stuff! I'll be animating over the summer :). Man this semester is almost over...crazy!!

Animation Update

Hello hello! Been working on the dialogue test.... here's an update! :)




This semester's wrapping up!! It's crazy it totally zoomed by!!

About time for an update!

Hello hello! It's been a while since I've posted. This semester is zooming by!! Well here's an update on the dialogue test:



Well that's what I have so far! I'm also working on a mechanical test where a character climbs a table and jumps off of it. I'll probably switch out the table with something more exciting. The plan is that he'll eventually be a character where he's running from something. I'll post it after I touch up on a few things!

That's about it for now! Stay tuned for more! :)

Finally An Update! (Dialogue Test)

Here's a test I've been working on. It's our last test for the semester so I'll be working on this for the next mmm how many weeks do we have left... around 5? So yuuup! Here's my first shot at a dialogue test!




Stay tuned for revisions and hopefully some other stuff! :)

Birthday Gift

Here's as far as I got with this test. Too bad huh haha. But I'll keep working on it over the summer, but for now I gotta move onto a dialogue test.



(I didn't get to work on the timing i.e. Graph Editor at all. It's just keys set to plateau.)


Zooming through the semester!

Finished Pieces

I'll keep updating this post as I finish things up!

Another WIP

2nd Interior line drawing. Time to tone it up! 2 colors and 1 schematic left to go! :)

WIP's

Wow has it really been that long since I posted? Man what a hectic 2 weeks it's been. But here's some of the stuff I'm working on right now:





Man but there's so much more due this Thurs. I have 1 more B&W interior to do, including 1 colored exterior and 1 colored interior and 1 schematic. Holy macaroons?! Wish me luck hahaha! Stay tuned for more! I'll try to post my progress once I get more pieces laid-in/finished.

Sign Rendering

Here's that sign rendering:



Oh and another quick anime character:


Line: 55 min
Color: 1.5 hour

Mmm.. time for animation! Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

150 Thumbnails

150 thumbnails for Gary's Tree house is due tomorrow morning!






And I'm STILL not done with hw. I have to clean up 30 of these badboys and finish rendering my sign! Haha @_@!!Stay tuned!!! :D

What? Anime?

Yup, that's right! Anime, or something similar at least. Something different for a change hahaha.


For the sake knowing how long it takes me to do something like this:
Line Drawing: 1.5 hours
Color: 1.5 hours

Not advertising tho!! I'm just starting to count how long it takes me to do something so I can slowly become faster.


Mmm pirates! Stay tuned for more! :)

Signs and Color Comps

Hello all! So this Tues 10 sign sketches are due and we are to take one, do some color comps, and render one of them out. I finished the sketches and color comps:





I think I'm going to go ahead and render the top right one, although I'm itching to do the Halloween theme, cuz it looks so much fun! Much more is due on Tues tho! Like 150 thumbnails and ideations for our tree house! Yikes! Haha, stay tuned! :)

Final Kitchens

Here are the kitchens that I turned in on Tues:





We're moving onto Gary Soto's Treehouse now! Yaaay! :D Stay tuned for more stuff!

Revised Sackanimation

I revised the sack animation! Here it is:



So more timidness and more contrast. There's still things other things I need to revise. Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

WIP - Character Animation

Hello! Here's my first 3-D character animation I'm working on :). Right now I just keyed it out and put it on plateau. So I'm going to start dialing in and working better timing based on what I have so far (and fix the poses as I go). So here it is:




Any comments or feedback are welcome! Stay tuned for maybe a revised Sackanimation based on some feedback I got on ACME!

Gary Soto's Kitchen - Revised

I addressed all the problems that were pointed out on Tues. Here are the revised pieces:





Due in an 1.5 hours! Oh my! Stay tuned for more stuff! :D

Gary Soto's Kitchen - First Pass

Hello! This morning Gary Soto's kitchen 1st pass was due! Rough schematics and 2 views of the kitchen. This is supposed to be a roughly 1940's house in a late 1950's time.





There's a lot of things I gotta revise and change. Like scale and distance and such. Stay tuned for revisions! And possibly some 3-D animation with a human rig! (Doing poses right now) :D