Ka-POW!

More mucking around in After Effects.

Quick Sketches

Just a couple of quick sketches before I hit the hay, didn't mind them so I thought I'd post them here. Used an 8B pencil, which is nice and soft for sketching.

HTTYD At Home

The other day I purchased the How to Train Your Dragon on Blu-Ray, a little bit more expensive than the DVD version, but seeming I received both a Blu-Ray and DVD copy I wasn't too peeved. That, and the Blu-Ray version comes with loads more extra features.

Including 'How to Draw a Dragon' :

It was a good bit of fun to draw, particularly how the artist kept reminding me to think of the shapes like they were sausages and semi-circles.

There are some interesting deleted scenes that were cut out, interviews with the cast, and of course a short documentary of how they made the film. This is explored further in something they call the Animators Corner, where crew members each commentate on the relevant footage on the screen, while you watch various parts of production on a smaller screen on the bottom right hand corner. I haven't watched it all yet, but from what I've seen it's really generous in the information they provide.

Now I am going to eat a berry tart with some ice-cream. Till next time!

First After Effects Attempt!

This is my first attempt at using After Effects. Really looking forward to mucking around with it some more and seeing what else it can do.

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. :)