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!