16 febbraio 2014
4 febbraio 2014
Gesture drawing for Animation with Niall Laverty
We did a 4 days intensive workshop about gesture drawing for animation.
It was a huge luck to have 2 models that were very professionals and also helpful.
Me and my friends established some kind of friendly competition during the drawing sessions.
Briefly...4 days of pure amusement! I felt very destressed and pleased by the intervention of Niall, that brought my draws to life again.
It was a huge luck to have 2 models that were very professionals and also helpful.
Me and my friends established some kind of friendly competition during the drawing sessions.
Briefly...4 days of pure amusement! I felt very destressed and pleased by the intervention of Niall, that brought my draws to life again.
Niall Laverty's Blog Have also a look to his amazing FB page!
30 gennaio 2014
Kristof Serrand's feedback and other cool things happening to me lately
So, I forgot to mention that 10 months ago I took a very important decision in my life.
I decided to quit the studies 24/7 of 2D animation because I felt it was landing me nowhere.
2D animation is something very complicated and you need many skills that I simply do not have time to study or improve right now.
That's why I decided to just use the "incomplete" skills I achieved in 2D, to enrich my already solid 3D skills. I am applying 2D principles to Maya and I started thinking that 3D animated features will always be made of 25 drawings per second.
That's why, after many strange coincidences, I am attending Gobelins l'école de l'image in France to improve my 3D animation skills and get inspired by the place I live (Annecy, Rhone Alpes), the people I encounter and also trying hard to make of this 2D/3D animation techniques my trademark.
So, now I am in the best school of animation in Europe. This is my chance.
It's obvious that we are having a really good time here at Gobelins, always challenging time and other animators in a positive way. Learning from everyone and asking for as many critiques as possible. I am gonna show you something in the next days...
For the moment, I just wanted to tell you that I met this guy, Kristof Serrand. An ancient Gobelins student, that is working in Dreamworks since 1994.
Let's make a few things clearer about him:
He was the one behind some of the most amazing characters appeared in acclaimed animated features such as Balto, Spirit, Fievel, Prince of Egypt and the most recent Croods.
Every one of the movies he worked on at Dreamworks, means something to me. His animation are stuck in my memories and somehow caught my eye long ago...when I didn't know yet what animation was!
He inspires me since I was a little girl. I studied his animation tests on Balto and based one of my animations on them (this one).
So maybe now you can imagine what I felt when I saw him, right?
No you can't.
He looks a little bit like Einstein, but happier. A funny and peaceful person.
He is also very critical... he looked through all of our 16 videos of acting and body mechanics, with patience. He said a lot of different things. Some of them were not exactly nice, but fair.
I was absolutely petrified and nervous when my time came...He saw my animations twice.
He smiled. He said "...who's work is this?" I raised my hand, trembling. He looked at me. And told me that I am a very good animator but still need to reach the professional level of polishing and organization in my curves.
So maybe now you can imagine better how I felt!
I was like...WHAT?!?! I wanted to scream of joy! But I stayed still and kept thinking about it with my eyes sparkling! I think he thought I was unpleased or something! ah ah oh my... I was just speachless and wanted to cry! :)
Last Friday he came again in Annecy, for giving feedbacks on our quadruped work.
It was kind of awful for me, because I had many personal issues lately and my mind was not there. So I didn't gave the 100% in the animation of the animal I like the most in the world: the wolf.
We watched together my animation and there were obvious mistakes I should have easily seen.
I was just slightly disappointed, because after all I had never ever animated a quadruped before and as a "first time" it kind of worked. It just lacked of technical stuff for making cycles work. And also, of course..polishing and order!
That same afternoon I decided to show him my animation, the one I was talking about just before (this one).
I don't know why I did it, probably just because I felt it deep inside...something like..." what the hell Claudia, you're probably not seeing him anymore in your life, show him the work you did, inspired by his animations!"
It was a 2D animation I did when I was totally 100% into my animation. 100% happy, 100% inspired and so on... guess it was my chance...And I did it.
well.
He said... "i don't know what to say to you for this animation, I mean. It works very well. You did this?"
Then my heart stopped for a second.
He gave me some suggestions thet I will surely apply on my next 2D animation :) It's incredible the amount of things I learned in a few days with this "animation doctor"!
With that said. I am closing this post with a huge smile on my face and in my heart.
If you want something, no matter how far it is...you must go for it.
I want to be a good animator and a good person...
I want to have it all.
Love! <3
I decided to quit the studies 24/7 of 2D animation because I felt it was landing me nowhere.
2D animation is something very complicated and you need many skills that I simply do not have time to study or improve right now.
That's why I decided to just use the "incomplete" skills I achieved in 2D, to enrich my already solid 3D skills. I am applying 2D principles to Maya and I started thinking that 3D animated features will always be made of 25 drawings per second.
That's why, after many strange coincidences, I am attending Gobelins l'école de l'image in France to improve my 3D animation skills and get inspired by the place I live (Annecy, Rhone Alpes), the people I encounter and also trying hard to make of this 2D/3D animation techniques my trademark.
So, now I am in the best school of animation in Europe. This is my chance.
It's obvious that we are having a really good time here at Gobelins, always challenging time and other animators in a positive way. Learning from everyone and asking for as many critiques as possible. I am gonna show you something in the next days...
For the moment, I just wanted to tell you that I met this guy, Kristof Serrand. An ancient Gobelins student, that is working in Dreamworks since 1994.
Let's make a few things clearer about him:
He was the one behind some of the most amazing characters appeared in acclaimed animated features such as Balto, Spirit, Fievel, Prince of Egypt and the most recent Croods.
Every one of the movies he worked on at Dreamworks, means something to me. His animation are stuck in my memories and somehow caught my eye long ago...when I didn't know yet what animation was!
He inspires me since I was a little girl. I studied his animation tests on Balto and based one of my animations on them (this one).
So maybe now you can imagine what I felt when I saw him, right?
No you can't.
He looks a little bit like Einstein, but happier. A funny and peaceful person.
He is also very critical... he looked through all of our 16 videos of acting and body mechanics, with patience. He said a lot of different things. Some of them were not exactly nice, but fair.
I was absolutely petrified and nervous when my time came...He saw my animations twice.
He smiled. He said "...who's work is this?" I raised my hand, trembling. He looked at me. And told me that I am a very good animator but still need to reach the professional level of polishing and organization in my curves.
So maybe now you can imagine better how I felt!
I was like...WHAT?!?! I wanted to scream of joy! But I stayed still and kept thinking about it with my eyes sparkling! I think he thought I was unpleased or something! ah ah oh my... I was just speachless and wanted to cry! :)
Last Friday he came again in Annecy, for giving feedbacks on our quadruped work.
It was kind of awful for me, because I had many personal issues lately and my mind was not there. So I didn't gave the 100% in the animation of the animal I like the most in the world: the wolf.
We watched together my animation and there were obvious mistakes I should have easily seen.
I was just slightly disappointed, because after all I had never ever animated a quadruped before and as a "first time" it kind of worked. It just lacked of technical stuff for making cycles work. And also, of course..polishing and order!
That same afternoon I decided to show him my animation, the one I was talking about just before (this one).
I don't know why I did it, probably just because I felt it deep inside...something like..." what the hell Claudia, you're probably not seeing him anymore in your life, show him the work you did, inspired by his animations!"
It was a 2D animation I did when I was totally 100% into my animation. 100% happy, 100% inspired and so on... guess it was my chance...And I did it.
well.
He said... "i don't know what to say to you for this animation, I mean. It works very well. You did this?"
Then my heart stopped for a second.
He gave me some suggestions thet I will surely apply on my next 2D animation :) It's incredible the amount of things I learned in a few days with this "animation doctor"!
With that said. I am closing this post with a huge smile on my face and in my heart.
If you want something, no matter how far it is...you must go for it.
I want to be a good animator and a good person...
I want to have it all.
Love! <3
1 dicembre 2013
1 novembre 2013
29 aprile 2013
"Il tiranno Malato" Videoboard
And...here we go with the development of my latest personal project: "Il tiranno malato"
This is the first time in my life I animate a quadruped in 2d animation so....be nice please :)
Animation still needs tweaking, this video is more about the general mood of the story.
I was truly inspired from Sergio Leone and stoled some of his camera techniques ;)
Hope you will enjoy it, and be patient 'till this summer!
...CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS TO BE FINISHED! :)
12 aprile 2013
Personal project: Donna Elvira "Ah Fuggi Traditor!"
This is a personal project based on the play "Don Giovanni" by W.A. Mozart.
Don Giovanni is a young, arrogant, sexually promiscuous nobleman. He abuses and outrages everyone else in the cast, until he encounters something he cannot kill, beat up, dodge or outwit.
In fact, as soon as Don Giovanni tries to seduce another woman named Zerline, Elvira arrives and thwarts the seduction by singing this song named "Flee from the traitor!".
This animation is all done with the software Toon Boom, that was learned during this particular project.
Enjoy, comment, subscribe :)
Final Video:
A little bit of making of:
12 marzo 2013
13 febbraio 2013
" Il tiranno Malato - The sick dictator" CONCEPT ART
And that's a brand new piece of my personal collection of photoshop madness! ...Just hanging around with my new character, wich is the main char of a novel called "The sick dictator".
23 novembre 2012
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