hmmm ...some new work !!

ok this is something i did last week ..i am happy with the beginning but not so much with the end ...it lacks intensity!! ...can i fix it ?? probably ...but i rather move on to something new ...this is the way i roll...



oh !! and now i think i have a foolproof work flow ...where at least now i know how to approach my scene ...but still i have lots to learn .... it is the finishing, where i am lacking .

also i think i will probably animate max rig next , i am happy with norman but max will stir thing up for me a bit ...they both are the best rig by far ..free that is ...

what am i doing ??

nothing !! ..well that's about sums it up ..i am just wasting my time doing menial things. oh yaa !! i manged to make maya fully functional in Linux. but timeline scrubbing is not as good as in window when u introduce an audio file .so back to window for me. although i think i can perform blocking stage in Linux just to spice thing up in life ....wow!! how lame ur life can be when u can spice things up by just replacing operating system ..hehe, well its not!!..i happen to love my pc as much a living being ..which i change every 2-3 years :D.. but the point is i am learning something new..that's the whole idea ..i have probably 40-50 more years to live and there is so much more to learn ...damn i wish i could live all those year without resting for a minute ..

so come to think of it ..i am not doing something that i am suppose to do but i am doing something that i want to do ...ya! that's about right..

good day sir !

hmmmm.. three post in one day ..i am on roll, yeah!!...this short work of mine is probably my best work to date ...nothing much artistically ...but before this i was afraid that i may never get the hang of different animation style...but i realized it all in the hold and speed of action but key poses are always the same...(i hope i am right :D )

also breaking the joints and stretching the limb, i always thought it was a 2D concept as 3D doesn't need that for extra flexibility ...but i was proved wrong by my self as i recorded a reference video of my self and played frame by frame..at one frame the motion blur from the camera made it appear that my fingers were 3 times longer with 90 degree backward curve...and i almost had an eureka moment...



norman is a great rig ...and i have seen people do really wonderful things ..but it doesn't have anything for cheeks and snare control...conveying an emotion just with eyes and mouth is bit out of my league, i think ...and i still dont have much control over facial animation ..it always get out of my hand ...that one thing is making me afraid of a mid-close up shot...but worry not ...i always do what i am afraid of doing, so next is mid to close !!

first fineshed lip sync ...finally!

i wanted to post this on first of this month but couldn't ...cause i am lazy ...anyway this was my second lip sync ..first one was abandon by me..about 6 month ago ..cause i had no concept of mouth shapes and phrasing ...and life wasnt all rosy at that time ...it still isn't but that's not the point...the point is i was not able to give it my best ...well now i can ...so here it is



so what did i get out of this ...well for the first time i had some vague concept on how to handle my holds bit effectively ... before this (and even in this ) i was "middle click dragging" and leaving it untouched ....now i dont ...this has helped me tremendously in my work-flow....

i also came to realize my shortcoming ...as a novice i keep timing on the slower side....i have to constantly remind my self to remove a frame or two...

also forgot to ad blinks and eye darts...it seems like zombie to me now..:D

my first step

ok , well i made this blog as journal to keep track of my evolution as an artist ...it will also serve as a personal diary and maybe a place to show you something i stumble upon ... i don't know if I'll be able to update my blog regularly or not but considering the fact that i spend 10 hours a day infront of this darnedest thing ,chances are pretty good ...so here goes nothing!!!