Testing 1, 2, 3

Linking my blog to Facebook now so the family and see animating updates if they wish :)

Oh and I wont have to tell Nate the URL anymore ;)

This is a test post to see if it works >.>

Art Major...

To be or not to be? That most certainly is the question that's been plaguing my mind for a while now. I just spent over an hour staring at the BFA requirements and I have no idea what to do.

I just don't know if I'm good enough :-/ I've always been so insecure about my abilities as an artist.

But enough of my blabbering and blubbering, I guess I just needed a mini outlet for my frustration.

Short Animation Ideas

So I started working with Flash in order to beef up my 2D animation skills and I want to do some short animations on my own. I couldn't come up with anything earlier this week but today I've been able to get a couple of ideas going.

Numero Uno!
This one gets an automatic silly rating because it involves squirrels, haha. I just want to do a simple animation with two squirrels attempting to gather the last acorn left on a tree and the antics that ensue.

Dos!
While I was hanging out with Nate, Other Nate, Chuck, and Kyle last night they gave me an idea for an animation just by engaging in an average conversation. Well...not so average, but average for them. Let's just say it involves a man, his beard, and a bird. Reminding you of a Family Guy episode? Yeah, this will be fun. ;)

Well, that's it for now. I'm mostly posting this so I don't forget about them later. Hopefully I'll get some storyboards up eventually when I find the spare time to make 'em.

Oh, and here's my slightly improved animation of Lt. Dan Dancing:

Lt. Dan...dancing?

I was so happy to finally start animating with Lt. Dan! He has legs and feet! Maybe I'm getting a little too excited, but anywho here's the animation:

One thing I don't like is the way the foot rotates in right before he starts bouncing left and right. But I couldn't think of a better way to do it. So any input on that would be great! I'm also thinking about making him flip instead of just doing a regular jump.

Completed "Ball Story" Animation

Hey Everyone,

I just finished my first animation with the rigged ball for 3D Animation, this was incredibly fun to animate. Using the rig is a lot easier than having to re-size the entire object! And far less frustrating haha.

Anyways here it is, I think I can smooth out the animation a bit more but let me know what you think. Oh, and try to ignore the rigging around the ball, I'm not sure if there's a way to hide it or not and I didn't want to play with Maya's settings too much and mess everything up.

Lab Aiding and Animating!

So I'm lab aiding it up right now on this...lovely Friday and I was going to post my new animations from class, but I forgot how to export it as a QuickTime video >.< whoops! And now that I take another look at it, the animation could look a lot better anyways so I'll try to fix that up and post it soon.

Anywho, I'm working on some graphic design stuff for my 3D game programming class (for the menu screens and such) so I might post that if I think it looks ok haha, and it'll be up on my main website as well!

Alright I'm off to the world of Photoshop!! *whoooosh*

Bouncing Ball: Maya

Here's my first animation from 3D Animation Studio, just a simple bouncing ball.