Vectorizing

So a while back I posted up a couple of sketches I've done & the decided to go ahead & vectorize them. Usually you would hear people do this all in Illustrator, but being more of an After Effects person, so I went ahead & did it in that program instead. It was definitely fun giving the sketch a crisp edges & some simple color.

Some different variation of the piece.

New Glass

So lately I've been investing some money on some new glass. First lens I purchased was Canon's 50 mm 1.8, the lens that every photographer should have in there bag. The second was the Tokina 11-16mm 2.8, a wider choice of lens. I picked up the 11-16mm for shooting a lot of my BMX filming purposes. The first night I had the lens I shot a short edit of my friend riding at our local skate park. The lens did prove itself useful with the last shot I got of my friend. When I was shooting the clip I knew I wanted to keep the shot rather close to my friend & when I started shooting I didn't have a problem keeping him from being cut out of the frame.

Reel '11.5

I finally got around to editing a new reel. I wasn't too sure with the song, I do like it myself but I do fear that some people may think the song is a bit obnoxious. After awhile not being able to decide if I wanted this to be my most up to date edited real, I just thought to hell with it, I'll post it up & that would be that. Well anyways, enjoy!

Sketches

Today I got around to uploading some sketches from my most recent sketchbook, a wide verity of characters from stylized people to some robots.

The ones I like the most I will probably end up bringing them into Illustrator to turn them into vectors & give'em some color.

Animated Shapes With a Hit of Hanna Barbera

Throughout the last couple of weeks I've been working in bits on this little five second piece of animation. Initially I just wanted a simple piece of animation with a shape forming fluidly into other shapes with exploring some principles of animation (squash, stretch, exaggeration, secondary action, etc.) About half way through the project I thought I'd dip into some sound design since I hadn't for awhile & I had over 60gbs of sound effects at my toes. Some more info in the project on the Vimeo page.

Help Bot 2000

Messing around Cinema for a couple of hours & ended up making this quick robot character. Did a little in post in After Effects. Found it much more effective to use render out a depth pass & deal with it in After Effects then to have the depth of field be rendered out with the beauty pass.

I'm sure this little guy is trust worthy around your house, you know, with those red eyes.

Retro Gaming Models

A bit ago I wanted to dive into some more modeling with Cinema 4D since I made the jump to it from Maya a couple months back. I had some fundamentals of modeling knowledge from using Maya for a couple of years & wanted to work them out with the tools that Cinema 4D had in their set. I discovered that Cinema 4D's deformers were more forgiving then Maya's, which would pretty much overall mean that I would feel more confortable with using them. Some of these models were made in couple of hours so some of the typology doesn't flow well like it should but I think it was a valid sacrifice to make in the time it took to make them.

Some more info on the Vimeo page.