Class 2 & Class 1 - Progress Reel

Class 2 was really tough! it was challenging but I learnt a lot!
At the end I had lots of fun working in these assignments and that is what counts!
hope u guys enjoy it!

My Class 1 Reel

Finally I was able to render out all the shots to compile my Class 1 Reel =)
Hope u guys have fun watching as I had fun doing it, ENJOY!

Obstacle Course

Here is my attempt in the Obstacle Course assignment, I had to use the anticipation principal and some stretch & squash in this work. I tried to keep it simple but at the end, as usual.. that is something hard to accomplish.. I decided to go for a cartoony anticipation and tackle some fast wall bounces.

This was a really fun assignment and at first I struggled a lot with the wall bounces because I was trying to do it all by insctinct, this made my work a lot harder. Some hours of struggling passed and then I had to give up to insctinct and decided to grab my video camera and record some reference of a ball bouncing against my wall and a large book haha with this reference I was able to do the animation in apporximately 30 minutes.. then I learnt that video reference can really make a huge difference.

Bouncing Balls Study

Around Week 3 & 4 it was all about bouncing, we had to study the different kinds of weight in balls and try to figure out the different timings that were presented in each case.
First we started with a simple bouncing ball and with it, we studied timing & spacing.





Then, we had to compare the heavy ball vs the light ball. At first I did a complicated assignment and had some problems with trying to maintiain the same weight in the ball through all the shot, so then I decided to make a simple animation just to compare both balls and how weight can affect their timing & spacing.

Here are both shots, the simple and the complicated, I'll try to get back to the complicated one later on when I can get some spare time.


SIMPLE:



COMPLICATED:

Stu Sketches!!!

Posing TIME!
Here are some of the sketches I made to pose Stu, it was really hard to choose one because they were all funny haha but at the end I chose number 4, Stu stepping on Gum.

RDY for WEEK # 2!!!

INCOMING!!!

With week 1 already over, I'm more excited, week 2 is going to be fun, we are going to start with the principles of animation and hopefully we will start animating our bouncing balls hehe
Week 1 was all about knowing each other and getting used to the AM site, stu's rig and playing around with some poses =)  I decided to animate Tailor during this week as well just to start training for what is about to come in this weeks. Also, as training I drew a lot during this week because I know drawing will be a used for lots of planning and I'm a bit rusty.

Well guys C'ya in WEEK 2 !!!! 
Have fun!! & Happy Animating!!!

VFX Work

Abduction TEASER 
(working title)
This is a Teaser of a ShortFilm that I've been planning to do some while ago.
I only need to find some time to film it because it would be really fun and I believe it would come out great.

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DragonBall Real Life

This video was one of my first Visual Effect attempts and I felt really great when I finished it because I had to put a lot of effort into it, hope u guys like it.

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StarWars vs DBZ 

Well guys, anyone who is into special effects has to do a star wars video haha this is mine.

Software used: After Effects