Testing Times

Moving

2010-03-29T20:47:00.001+01:00

Hi ho,

I have decided to move to Tumblr so i wont be posting here any more.

See you there.

Test 007 : Weight Shift

2010-03-14T18:37:00.002Z

A quick weight shift, sorry about the looping but vimeo wouldn't let me upload anything shorter.

Test 007 : Weight Shift from Marty on Vimeo.

Next week some dialogue, Cheerio!

Test 006 : Half Pipe Tailor

2010-03-07T19:21:00.002Z

Just a quickie this week, I'm still not sure what to animate.

Half Pipe Tailor from Marty on Vimeo.

See ya next week, Cheerio!

Test 005: Scared Hop - Finished

2010-02-27T12:52:00.003Z

OK I'm starting to get into the swing of things now.

I'm pretty close to a work flow that feels right, and with a bit of tweaking over the next few weeks should be something I'll stick with for a long long time.

What I'm going to try next will involve Jason Schleifer's Grease Pencil - I'm going to try, as part of the blocking phase, to draw the spacing charts right on the main camera's image plane. So when I get to 'tweening the animation I'll have more to work with, plus it forces me to do the proper planning which I still don't do enough of.

Anyhoo...

MooM is such a fun puppet to work with, here he is jumping away from his captors.
There is still a lot wrong with this test, but hey, if I don't get anything wrong I won't have anything to improve on with the next animation.

Test 005: Scared Hop - Finished from Marty on Vimeo.

I have no idea what to do for next week, so just watch this space.

Cheerio!

Test 005: Scared Hop - Tweening

2010-02-21T10:45:00.004Z

Howdy Y'all!

This poor fella just wants to get away.

Scared Hop - Tweening from Marty on Vimeo.

Next week, Spline & Polish.
Cheerio

Test 004: Ball with tail

2010-02-14T15:17:00.002Z

Just a quickie today, I've been messing about with some new rigs and setting up mel scripts so I didn't have enough time to polish the Cricketer from last week.

As always, any comments or critique would be greatly appreciated!

Jumping Ball Animation from Marty on Vimeo.

Cheerio!

Test 003: Cricket Bowling - Tweening

2010-02-07T15:57:00.004Z

Howdy,

Ok, things got a little out of hand this week. I went into splines way too soon and made things a lot harder on myself - so spacing and arcs are not quite good enough, oh well, live and learn, next time I'll make sure to hold out on the spines a bit longer.

I also noticed that there doesn't seem to be any force in the push offs in both of the previous tests, He just seems to float off the floor. So the next test will have to involve some jumping around so that I can practice a bit more.

'Till then here is our intrepid bowler!

As always, feel free to post your comments & critique!

Test 003: Cricket Bowling - Tweening from Marty on Vimeo.

Next week might not seem like much of an update because the next test will involve a rig I have never used before, so I'll be setting him up and planning. But I will try to put a bit of polish onto our bowler here if there is any time.

Cheerio for now!

Test 003: Cricket Bowling - Blocking

2010-01-31T16:40:00.005Z

Hi Ho,

Ahh, Cricket. There's nothing quite like having some angry looking man chucking a ball at 90mph towards your head over and over again. Still I'd rather that then stand at silly mid off.

Due to not having a lot of time to animate I decided that I would do this test over 3 weeks.

Week 1 - Blocking
Week 2 - 'Tweening
Week 3 - Polish

So here it is, there is no timing and everything has been slowed down so that you can see it easier. As always feel free to post any comments or critiques.

Test 003: Cricket Blocking from Marty on Vimeo.

Cheerio!

Test 002: Full Body Run

2010-01-24T14:07:00.003Z

Hi ho,

Well here it is, my first Full Body Run cycle. Unfortunately I didn't have time to do the arms properly - that's why they don't look too good. It's kind of sad because the arms are what make this animation different to the ball in the previous post, so it's a bit of a failure this week... Still this blog is as much about getting me to animate to a time table as much as it is about getting better at animation, so hopefully I'll learn from this and get quicker as the year goes by.

Test 002 - Full Body Run from Marty on Vimeo.

As usual please feel free to post your comments & critique.

Next week, it'll be some Cricket - something I have wanted to do for ages!

Cheerio!

Test 001: Run

2010-01-17T17:03:00.007Z

Hi Ho,

The first animation of this blog is a run cycle. I hadn't done a run cycle before - plenty of walks, but no runs - so I'm just trying to get the basics right.

Ballie Run Test from Marty on Vimeo.

This will probably be one of only very few that'll be fully rendered, it'll take too long otherwise. As with all the videos I'll post here, please feel free to post what you think about it in the comments.

Next week hopefully I'll have a full biped run complete with arms.

Cheerio for now!

Year of the Update

2010-01-10T18:51:00.006Z

What ho good people of the Blogsphere! Welcome to my little corner of the internet.

I have started this blog as a way to track my progress as I immerse myself in the ways of Animation. Hopefully as this blog progresses you will be able to see some real improvements in my animation skills.

Demoreel - Marty Cole from Marty on Vimeo.

Anyhoo, this is my current Demo Reel to serve as a guide to my progress.

I shall make an update every week with new tests, so see you next Sunday... Cheerio!