Prototype

    My schedule is a prototype. It is an ongoing development. I have numerous ideas and curriculums I’m working on. It is so much fun and exciting. The more you learn, the more you can develop and update your schedule based on your experience. What looked like boring textbooks and online lectures have turned into endless opportunities. Now, I start the day with ravenous attitude towards learning the language I love and the art I seek to master. 

Digital Sketches

Had sometime in my hand to learn more about the digital world of art. Here are some scribbles I did for testing it out on Sketchbook.

Landing Pose

Did a pose exercise with a Baqir rig. Go check it out.

Baqir rig

To be honest.

 Developing a visual library via drawing objects is no sprint. I have been drawing consistently from animals to architecture and it has been a struggle. I do draw them on paper, however, I am trying to break into digital for some time now. Here are my efforts to do (it's not easy!).

Tiger 3d pose

Another pose practice is done... I do not like the final outcome but I had to finish it early because I had some technical difficulties to deal with. Hopefully I won't have to deal with it tomorrow!

 

New pose practice!

 Another day of practicing poses. This pose was very generic but the facial expression saved it from being dull.

3d pose I've been working on...

 For practice, have a look.

Becoming an Architect

 Had an hour in my hands to draw some couches to expand my visual library. Here are some sketches.

New short on YouTube

 Like I said in my previous post, I made an original short. Check it out. Just a little bit of fun.

https://youtube.com/shorts/mtIdeZk_E_U?feature=share

New video coming up!

     I'm working on an experimental video for my YouTube channel. It is a 4 cut comic style video. It's still work in progress and I'm hoping this video will kick-off a consistent upload plan. Here's a storyboard sneak peak. Let's do this!

Drawing Faces

Highlight of the day! I did some drawing. Check this one out. Turned out okay.

Hide and Seek

 Quick little pose practice for today.

Run!

 It took me about 50 minutes to do this pose.

Rusty AnimChallenge Day 1

 Animation practice exercise day 1. Bouncing Ball.

3D Pose Practice

I've played around with the ultimate bony rig for the need to practice making 3d poses. It's a start of something amazing! I will be posting more of this. Really enjoying doing it. My aim is to improve my posing skills to be the best animator in the world (haha)!

Working?

Here's some self motivational speech for myself: work smarter NOT harder. It could really speed up my workflow! Nice.

Constraints

I finally tackled on constraints. I learned today however not to the level of explaining it in this blog. I still need to make it my own. Hope to write to you soon!

Expressions with the Graph Editor

 So, this is a quicky! Did you know you can offset the curve just by using an expression like +=2 in the graph editor. I think this is very useful and needs to be mentioned more in the future!

Animating with reference

 Okay time to animate and get real... but along comes the technical problems! Ugh.. hate when that happens. You see today I ran into some minor problem that could've been ignored but no I went full in and tried to fix it thus wasting more time to do it. The point is, animation is hard and very time consuming...

I know how important it is to use reference in my animation but I had to remind myself how important it is to study and learn from references rather than just rotoscope it. And this is why I'm have major issues. I'll have to use my head to understand body mechanics. Will I make it through??

Run Cycles

The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams