Bot Rides the Halfpipe

Today's excersize with Frank. I found the graph editor pretty interesting to work with, wondering how else you'd be able to tweak this by moving points around.

Fire Safety Rotoscope

Here is my rotoscoping so far for our 'Fire Safety' video. It's not alot, mainly because I wasted alot of time setting the keyframes along the timeline before actuallly drawing the poses.

Legend of the Guardians

Just went to see it today. Blew my mind. In like three different ways.

I think may have even came a few times during one or two scenes. Well not really, because that would be kind of gross. You understand what I'm trying to get at though, no?

In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, check out the video down below.

The attention to detail was otherworldly, which makes me wonder how many times their computers died trying to render a single frame. The story may not have been 'extremely involved', but who said it had to be? Why does everything have to be the next Lord of the Rings? The music was extremely well timed with some crucial moments, and if anyone knows me it's that I love a decent soundtrack.

To see an Australian animation studio producing a film at such a high quality level is really exciting for me to see, and it gives me hope that, you know, I might not have to move to another country to work in a big studio one day.

And also owls. I love owls.

If anyone else has seen it, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the film. :)

Children's Book Illustration

This is my illustration assignment for a children's book. My quote, 'A big octopus chased me in the ocean', gave me a more dark, ominous image in my head where a mermaid is at the very depths of the ocean. I received some great feedback, such as making the mermaids pose and expression less relaxed.

First time really trying to do a complete painting in PS. I'm not too happy with the coloured version, and I think I could definitely have given the octopus some brighter highlights, but I plan on tweaking this in the future, so hopefully I can get used to the different layer settings available.

KH Birth By Sleep

This is the trailer for the new Kingdom Hearts game coming out on PSP this thursday, which I think I've been waiting for now since 2007.



Not the full version which I'd been after, but this will have to suffice for now.