Animator.

new apt.

2006-03-05T11:32:00.000-08:00

I moved out again into a new appartment, Lets see how long I can stay in this one. Well as far as school goes, I came to a point where I felt I wanted to jump ship. I managed to catch up just enough to stay on board. Now I have to push on harder to keep up. The next session starts in a month and thats going to be super cool-Dialogue, lip sync.
Wooohoo, gotta get back to maya now.

have a good one.

-Ed

2006-01-24T12:32:00.000-08:00

Wow, So Disney finally bought Pixar and will be called Dixar. Furthermore they will change the intro logo, Luxo is going to fly around the Disney logo with fairie dust behingd him. Im joking about the last parts. Its rather interesting though, since Disney crushed their 2d animation divisions and began to develop their 3d pipeline, but in the end they bought what would have been their rival.

Some websites suggest that JLasseter will be creative head at Disney-Pixar. I wounder if he would bring back those old 2d animators.

Last night I wasnt able to sleep and I began to think about mediums in storytelling. What do writers do first. Decide what medium their story will fit best, traditional film/3d animation/stop motion or another medium, and then write it. Perhaps its the other way around, I dont know.

Anyhow with all this going on the world keeps on spinning.

New year

2005-12-31T01:03:00.000-08:00

Happy late Christmas... and only 23 hours away from a new year.

Have a fun and safe new year dear reader.

-Ed

2005-12-26T13:09:00.000-08:00

Its been a week without any animation assignments and I'm completely bored. I have all these ideas that I would like to animate and such but Im not there yet, thus far I've done different scenerios with boucing balls and experimenting with walk cycles. nothing more to say.

-Ed

2005-12-20T12:23:00.000-08:00

Backstage was awesome, I finally saw Lauren sing. I was also upstage doing a song with her and Jen towards the end of the night. Freddy on the other hand, no comment. He left seconds before his time came up. It was a good song too. Brad was living the moment, youve done this before havent you Brad? Theres pictures out there.

Good times all around.

- Ed

2005-12-11T07:50:00.000-08:00

This is it. The last official assignment for this week. My last file upload. My last Q&A with my teacher (Mentor) and as an individual class. Next week it's a global meeting, meaning everyone in the same class level.
So this past Q&A we went through our progress begining from week one. I noticed a major improvement, starting with that basic bouncing ball. Damn it seemed so hard for me at the time, now its like a walk in the park. Im taking this step by step, kind of like when I trained for cross country, do a lil warm up, Run one mile at a time and focus on my pacing for each mile. Then when the real t hing came , I'd place all the techniques I learn and go for my fastest time.
Progress is slow when you dont know what you are doing. Even though I've managed to create some simple animations I'm still a long way from calling myself an animator. Anyhow I was going through other peoples assignments and I decided to start working out some body mechanics stuff. My first observation was to look for that bouncing ball center (hips). Our mentors have been telling us for the past 11 weeks to focus on the principles and the rest comes on its on, (something like that) so even after this quarter is over I'm going back to the bouncing ball to figure out timing issues and trying to get the slow in/out in motion. Do those who have been animating for a long time ever go back to the bouncing ball? I have no idea.

Anyhow I still haven't found a new place to call home. Hopefully I find something during the break.

- Ed

New home.

2005-12-01T09:40:00.000-08:00

So I've been searching for a new place to call home. The different people I've ran across with are rather interesting and some are rather strange in their own way. So far no leads, just looking. Though some are close to campus, I wouldnt want to drive to school too much since this next comming semester will be the longest.
I better go out and continue on with my search.

Walk cycles

2005-11-15T18:33:00.000-08:00

Finally the walk cycle. There has definately been a major improvement from when i started. I will look for the first walk cycle of my life and compare it with my current one just to see my progress. Cant wait till next term. It will be the toughest since I'm struggling with this one as well.
Not to mention regular school, 12 units should be enough.

-Ed

Animator.

2005-10-30T01:39:00.000-08:00

Animation. It seems easy but its so much work and so much fun. I've been animating for the past 5 hours and I lost track of time rather quickly. For some reason I cant step away from the computer, nor can I stop staring at my dogs tail. You see, after doing various revisions on Taylor (a character provided by AM, with a tail) I watched all the cartoons I had looking for characters with tails. The best reference I found was my dog.
But anyhow, animation is an ongoing learning process that doesn't seem to end.

No cam yet

2005-09-28T21:19:00.001-07:00

AM has started and Im going to look for some new toys this weekend. :)

2005-06-02T21:31:00.000-07:00

last day of work today. Very hard work, haha, or as one person put it. I should be fired for not doing anything.
Just counting the days for AM and summer parties.

sactown

2005-06-02T14:16:00.000-07:00

I was suppose to head out to Sacramento today, but it aint happening. My plan was to stop by at the AM headquarters for a few mins and see whats going on out there. It aint happening either.
I'm just going to wait till Siggraph to get my shirt.

So with my remaining free time I'll be uploading some animation references.

-.

First steps towards AM

2005-05-30T23:44:00.000-07:00

I have been cleaning my room, and my computer lately. So much stuff I couldn't throw away. First I started to throw things away, and then I would look at some doodles and place them in the doodle pile. I would find old high school essay and short stories and place them in the story pile. When it came to the 'puter, I wasn’t sure where to place all the cool animation reels and test I've collected from various people across the web. Those Blizzard cinematics are too damn cool to be stored on CD’s. It doesn’t look like I cleaned much. :(

Well aside from this I visited my counselor before I departed from this "beautiful" town, I won’t say much aside that she hasn't seen any of the star wars films. High Five, May!.

2005-04-23T22:25:00.000-07:00

Today I took the funniest test.
Here is one question.
If a concious infant seated in a high chair next to the dinner table has its mouth open with a pained trouble expression and cannot cry, the person should expect
A) dirty diaper B) a kodak moment C)chocking

there were a lot more but this one stood out the most. The entire class was just laughing at every question.

Anyhow school is over in about a month and Im going to get a new pc or mac. Not sure yet because Im not sure what I want to use, maya or messiah studio.

Animation Mentor

2005-03-29T13:22:00.000-08:00

This being the first post, its meaningless. As time passes by I will update this blog along with reference material I have been collecting for animation. So Dont come back for another 5 months, because thats when I'll start AM :)