Animation Mentor - 411

This is the last assignment of class 4, since this rig is limited without facial controls, we only focus on body mechanics of acting and eye movements, now only left the eye brows and lipsync works for next class. Unfortunately i have to stop for few months till next class starts, hopefully my hand injury will recover then.

Animation Mentor - 409

This is the blocking plus stage, few adjustments on poses and gestures. Meantime, a 'relaxed' hand pose is uploaded during this week to explore with hand gesture.

Animation Mentor - 407

This is the blocking stage of the monologue animation.

Animation Mentor - 406

This week we start to work on 1 person monologue. Shooting the video of myself exploring the acting choices, and also pushing many possibilities of poses thru sketches.

Animation Mentor - 405

This is the final of pantomime assignment. Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 404

This is the revised blocking plus. I have pushed the poses to extreme and making the beat more contrast. Check it out.

Animation Mentor - 402

Mentor has given me some good suggestion and choosing the right acting from video reference, please check out the blocking too.

Animation Mentor - 401

The first assignment is to show the character with 2 contrast of expressions thru body acting. We called this Pantomime.

Animation Mentor - Class 4

Class 4 - Intro to Acting has just started, and so great to have my mentor, Mike Belzer, who has worked in Pixar in early days, and used to be Supervising Animator for Disney worked on Dinosaur, Meet the Robinsons & Bolt. Prior into CG, he was a stop motion animator for movie such as Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach.

Animation Mentor - Class 3 Progress Reel

This is the latest compilation of Animation Mentor class 3 animation reel. Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 311

This is the final animation for Theme 3 after few versions of fine tuning from the past few weeks. This term has come to the end in this week. After so many body mechanics assignments, next term we will explore into Acting! Cheers.

Animation Mentor - 308

The 3rd Anim Jam blocking is uploaded. Check it out.

Animation Mentor - 307

Finally, the 2nd Anim Jam assignment is done this week, and immediately going for 3rd final Anim Jam assignment planning and video references.

Animation Mentor - 305

The 2nd anim jam animation is uploaded, still in blocking stage. Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 304

The first anim jam animation is done, and now is time to upload the second anim jam idea in sketch and video reference, check it out!

Animation Mentor - 303

Few things have been changed to make this animation assignment looks better...
1) Closer camera view.
2) Fat Ninja falls differently.
3) Spline tangent!
Please check it out ya. Cheers!

Animation Mentor - 302

This is the 1st blocking of Class 3 assignment, and i have managed to revise both characters specially the fat red ninja to have him looking more weight and fat! Check it out.

Animation Mentor - Class 301

The assignment of this class i will be working on is Ninja's Obstacle Course. There are 2 Ninjas trainee undergo the obstacle. One of the Ninja will always fail to make the training and creates some entertaining stuff from there. Check it out!

Animation Mentor - Class 3

The Animation Mentor Class 3 - Advanced Body Mechanics has just started this week. Very excited to have a mentor from Pixar Animation Studios. Kevin Ohara is having over 20 years of experience in animation industry.

Animation Mentor - Class 2 Progress Reel

This is the latest compilation of Animation Mentor class 2 animation reel. Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 211

Finally, AM Class 2 - Psychology of Body Mechanics has come to the end on this week. This is the final polished animation assignment. Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 210

This is the Polishing stage of the animation, i have added many overlappings, adjust the timing to have ease in/out, overshoot the actions, adjusting the timing to avoid linear, things like that.
Have a look!

Animation Mentor - 209

This is the Blocking Plus of last week assignment, some major changes on timing, to avoid floaty animation. And also add in many Breakdowns as possible to feel the complete actions.
Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 208

This is the blocking stage for new assignment 'butterfly kick'!
Check it out...

Animation Mentor - 207

This week we have to complete all revisions from last assignment, as well as generating new ideas for next assignment, which i choose doing 'Butterfly Kick' with short acting! Meantime, i think of adding the windstorm and snow onto the last assignment to give the better feeling of the animation. Check it out ya...

Animation Mentor - 206

Some revisions on camera angle and animation from last week's assignment, i prefer a profile angle that can address the line of actions clearer. Check it out.

Animation Mentor - 205

This week i tried something new which I never done it before, is to block the timing and posing using 2D software, once i satisfied with the overall result then i use the 2D version as my guide for blocking in 3D software. I find it very helpful with this new method of mine. Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 204

This week we have to finish up all the details and polishing of the last animation assignment, and jumps into next assignment planning and shooting video reference to explore the ideas.
Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 203

This week we have to push further the animation in Blocking Plus stage, mostly to take care on overlapping, ease-in/out...

Animation Mentor - 202

After the video reference from last week, we have to do the animation blocking for this week.
Main purpose is to push the good posing and timing, in order to get the message across!
Check it out!

Animation - Car-jacking!

Finally, a big thanks to my friend, Mikkel Nielsen, Gim-Audio, for volunteerily helping me on the sound design and sound mix! Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 201

The 1st assignment of this class is to choose the action from pick list (provided by AM), and make a video reference and doing some detailed sketch to analyse the actions and movements.

Animation Mentor - Class 2

The Animation Mentor Class 2 - Psychology of Body Mechanics, has just started in this week, and very excited to have Martin Hopkins as my mentor. He's been in the animation industry for 13 years. He was hired at DreamWorks Animation working on 2D films such as 'Prince of Egypt', 'Road to El Dorado', 'Spirit', 'Sinbad'. Then later he switched himself into 3D films such as 'Shark Tale', 'Flushed Away', 'Bee Movie' and now he is working on 'Shrek 4'.

Animation Mentor - Class 1 Progress Reel

>This is the compilation of all assignments from Animation Mentor Class 1.

Animation Mentor - 111

This week we have to finish up the walk with personality,
I thought it will be great to add in music to feel the animation better.

Meantime, the stu pose will be 'Balance' for this week.

Animation Mentor - 110

This week blocking assignment is to pick a personality for the walk, which is Funky to me.

For the pose, Stu is 'exhausting' for this week.

Animation Mentor - 109

This week we have to complete the walkcycle and the Stu pose of 'Concern'.

Animation Mentor - 108

This week assignment will be focusing on the blocking of normal walkcycle.
As well as the Stu pose will be showing 'Physical Strength'.

Animation Mentor - 107

Another challenge from 'Overlapping' principle for this week .
'Tailor' is the character inspired by Scrat (from Ice Age).
Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 106 Revision

This is the revised animation for 'Overlapping' Pendulum.
Honestly, overlapping is one of the hardest thing to achieve in animation.
It's worth to keep practising on it!
Cheers!

Animation Mentor - 106

Pendulum animation will be this week assignment to apply the overlapping principle.
Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 105

The week 5 assgnment consists of

1) The bouncing ball going through the obstacle course as well as implementing the principles of Anticipation, Squash & Stretch.

2) 'Devastation' is the pose assignment for this week.

Animation Mentor - 104 Revision

This week assignment has 2 revisions commented from Marlon...

1) The bowling 1st bounce after the steep falling has to reduce a bit the distance compares to the rest bounces.

2) Ping pong bounce has a pop around fr.81.

Now i have uploaded the newly revised animation. Check it out!

Animation Mentor - 104

The week 4 assignment from AM is to animate
2 bouncing balls which has 2 different weights,
i've chosen Ping Pong vs Bowling!

Pose assignment is taking a break for this week.

Animation Mentor - 103 Revision

I have revised the bouncing ball animation based on
few comments suggested from my mentor.

Animation Mentor - 103

The 1st animation assignment from AM,
i have chosen soccer for the bouncing ball assignment.
'Excitement' will be the pose assignment for this week.

Animation Mentor - 102

This is the first assignment from AM, which is focusing on poses.

Animation Mentor - Class 1

I'm very excited to have Marlon Nowe as my class 1 mentor.
He used to work in Blur Studio for 7 years on most of the cool project like Gentleman's Duel, Transformer The Game, Gopher Broke, Rock Fish, Hell Gate. Then he joined Rhythm & Hues working on Golden Compass. Now he is working in Disney, just finished Bolt. His next project is Rapunzel directed by Glen Keane.