Lip Sync Test

So today I wanted to work on a bit more lip sync. I've done three separate example in the last 5 months of so. One of which has only the body acting part way done. So rather than tart up an old animation I just wanted to go at one from scratch and see what I could do in a day. I dug through some old 11 Second club audios I have saved and picked a quick sample of Will Smith from one of the Men in black films.




Its only a couple of seconds long, the first few phonemes don't quite blend but its coming along! Will finish it off tomorrow and upload the newer version.

Enjoy!

Paul

Interview! Hard work paying off?

So, I finally have my first interview for an animation position! Excited as I am, I'm not about to shout it all over facebook. No one reads this thing anyway so the chances of my fellow unemployed animators seeing mention of a potential position are greatly reduce here. I won't say where the job is, though it wouldn't take a genius to figure it out, but I will keep the blog up to date! The interview is on friday, I've got some early morning travelling to do so I hope I'm awake by the time I get there.

I've never actually been nervous for a job interview before... but then i've never wanted the job I'm being interviewed for before. Stomach is a bit tight and my brain has remained in overdrive these last few nights. Hopefully I don't end up looking like the cast of walking dead by the time I actually come to the interview. Hopefully the hundreds of hours I've put in over this last month will have paid off and I can show what I'm made of!

Wish me luck :)

WooooHOOOooooOOOoo!

Tough Week, its getting interesting!

Well that the end to another tiring day at the desk animating. Or rather the start to a new day as I seemed to yet again crossed past midnight. Well I managed to put a showreel together which I intend to update with my completed facial animation in a few days. I also applied to another job this time at Cubic Motion which I'm pretty excited about! I've been wanting to apply for quite some time. Wish me luck, its getting lonely in this office.

Nighty night!

Showreel Oct 2013: First draft

-All animation by Paul Feltwell.
-Morpheus Rig courtesy of Josh Burton.
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When youJust can't quit!

Well I spent a chunk of my animation time today working on the Baseball swing. Refined it and added more to then... then deleted the bit at the end, I just didn't like it. I got a bit carried away with it and didn't like the additional second. It's all in the name of practice though and it was fun and I managed to spruce up the part I kept so its all good.
Over the next week I will be trying to put together a new reel to apply for a few jobs. Looks like the Stewart rig work is much cleaner looking then other work put together with inferior rigs, so here's hoping for good progress tomorrow! Now its 12:50 and I had stopped animating around 10:40pm but some how ended up back on Maya after downloading a model of a katana (simple things). Yes I'm easily amused, so naturally I had a mess about posing a character holding it. So its got me wanting to practice individual poses to try and amp up my silhouettes and in time my animation as a whole.

Here's todays 10 minute effort. Enjoy and catch you tomorrow!

Baseball Progress

So having reviewed the swing and having had it poked and prodded by my mentor i've taken a hammer to it and tweaked a number of things. Mainly its a bit of exaggeration here and there. The baseball bat now arcs out further, improving that all important silhouette. I also added a leg raise. I like the look of it so far. Its nice and smooth, but I think I will need to attack it with fresh eyes in the morning as the swing itself seems a little even paced. Enjoy!

More updates coming soon!

-P

Well.. I ain't sleepin tonight!

I'm ever so slightly wired.. I get like this when I have too much that I want to be doing and my body just fails to move at the speed of thought.. perhaps I'm asking for too much? All of this I might add without the added effects of caffeine, no I don't do Coffee. I can barely handle my current thought patterns, the added catalytic presence of such adulterants could only be... interesting? maybe I should give it a go some time, anyway..
Just another update of what i've been up to. Loving the Stewart rig so thanks animation mentor! I've continued making working on some exercises, still some tweaks to be made but making progress all the while. Check it:




Heres a new one:




The idea of this one is mainly to study body mechanics and conveying the movement of force generated in the body. It's blocked but now I need to generate a greater sense of tension within the muscles. Will talk more on this one once i'm done :)

oh and heres a shot from a fun piece I hope to start soon. It involves people getting punched in the face! - Yeah so thats gonna be fun.

Remember remember thr 5th of November!

Nope this one isn't so much about Bonfire night or parliament. Just an update with my new and improved version of the Stewart rig jump test:



I've added in some breakdowns/inbetweens and sorted out his posture in the main poses. Hopefully it reads a little better now that its flowing more.
Just a quick one for now, More coming soon!

-Paul