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Gentle

09-19-2007, 10:28 PM

Anti-stress-ball boing (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/video.php?vid=Stress-Holz_Schraeg.mov)
Beachball boom (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/video.php?vid=Wasserball-Holz_Schraeg.mov)
Hop ball bang (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/video.php?vid=Flummi-Holz_Schraeg.mov)

Bouncing Balls with pen:
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung1.jpg

Simple character (not another Teen ... AM-puppet)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung2.jpg

The last ****ing beachball :D (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/video.php?vid=Wasserball-Holz_Schraeg1.mov)
Interaction between Tennis- and beachball (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/video.php?vid=Tennis-Wasserball_interakt.mov)
Wippe-wappe (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/video.php?vid=Ballwippe2.mov)

Editor:
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Animationsspuren.jpg

... F-Curves..
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/F-Kurven.jpg

From scratch to animation (click image)

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/3928/zeichnung1at0.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/video.php?vid=Starbucks.mov)

uuuh under surface (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/video.php?vid=Underground.mov)
seee-saaaw (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/video.php?vid=Schaukel.mov)

...get out of MY ****ING HOUSE!
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Pose_Rausausmeinemhaus.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

09-19-2007, 10:30 PM

Continuing with some poses:

Wooow I was tired today!
Just one animation and five poses. Hehe:D

This bouncing ball was first constructed in my living room and then I used the reference material for doing it in 3D. By the way - that are all animation/cinematography books from the Vienna library.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/prev.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Flummi-Holz_Buecherstapel.mov)

Posing in the garden:
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Posen1.jpg

I created the poses with the standard-MOCCA-Rig.
click on images for bigger version.

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/1826/ausheckeruw2.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Aushecker.jpg)

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/1851/monsterrh0.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Monster.jpg)

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/8471/tuerstehermc4.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Tuersteher.jpg)

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4454/karatevl3.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Karate.jpg)

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6923/hosenscheissersd0.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Hosenbrunzer.jpg)

... and more poses :D

For this day, altough I just got up at one o'clock, I was pretty productive .

First a who-finds-the-mistake from a footage-video. Look at the moment of pose change ;)
Footage-Video (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/FOOTAGE%20Schuechtern-Selbstbewusst.mov)

These Characters I will put in pose tomorrow:

Brav-Video (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/FOOTAGE%20A_ganz_a_Brava.mov)

Gentle

09-19-2007, 10:30 PM

And these poses were made today, based on the C4D-Rig.

Please, get into a hemicircle.. ;)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1409/gruppe3rf6.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Gruppe3.jpg)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9089/listigerlurchwp2.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Listiger_Lurch.jpg)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/3753/schmollenku1.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Schmollen.jpg)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/43/selbstbewusstfg5.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Selbstbewusst.jpg)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4850/ertapptrb2.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Ertappt.jpg)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6028/ignorantuo8.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Ignorant.jpg)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1272/fataaalts5.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Fataaal.jpg)

Gentle

09-19-2007, 10:44 PM

Some drawing from yesterday night:

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung3.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung4.jpg

The next week will be a pure reading/drawing-week, I'll keep you up-to-date.

----For about one week, I'm reading as many books about cinematograohy and film design as possible-----

The first book I read yesterday:

"Screencraft: Cinematography" by Peter Ettedgui.
ISBN: 3 499 605515

A very interesting book about the careers and lives of the most important camera-men in the last eighty years. They themselves describe how they got their jobs, first at advertising and documentary films, lateron they came to movies for the cinemas. I think the most important message was: Good camera work is camera work you don't recognize.

Have fun,
Gentle

Gentle

09-19-2007, 10:54 PM

This is the book I finished today:

"Screencraft: Production Design & Art Direction" by Peter Ettedgui.
ISBN: 3 499 60663 1

The book is - again - about the most famous artists of this screencraft and their personal views.
A production designer is basically very similar to a concept artist, but has way more power, as he defines the basic style of the movie. His functions are first to translate the screenplay into visual language, sketches, models and so on. He directs the construction of the sets and plans the locations.
The term "Production Designer" was invented by David O. Selznick, producer of "Gone with the Wind " and was a honour to the extraordinary work of William Cameron Menzies, who controlled the whole film style by detailed storyboards which must be strictly adhered to.
From there on, many techniques were invented and given forth by teaching assistants.
A production designer is also responsible for using the budget carefully considered. It is important to design a set for the audience, all the suurounding that's not visible in the movie is less important.
Production designers have always to work with tricks, and always to be aware of the fact that the counting factor shouldn't be the own ego or taste but the correct and best execution of the screenplay's vibe.
In these belongings, production designers often tend to construct a set based on the character's personality and the emotional mood of the scene.

Gentle

Gentle

09-21-2007, 01:13 PM

Just finished the next book:

"The Art of the Matrix" Larry & Andy Wachowski et al.
ISBN: 3 933 731 356

This book was really amazing for me, and is a compilation of these contents:
-B/W complete storyboard by Steve Skroce, about 200 pages in size.
-colored storyboard-parts by Tani Kunitake and Collin Grant
-concept art by Geof Darrow
-the original screenplay Andy und Larry Wachowski
-production memos by director's assistant Phil Oosterhouse

Not because Matrix is my favourite movie, but because I coluld learn so much out of this book, I really swallowed it. It's a 480-page A4 book, full of pictures and concepts.
The Wachowski brothers first showed their screenplay to the investors to get some money for comic and concept artists. So they hired Steve Skroce who drew the storyboard in complete comic-style. They always kept communicating, and so he drew a rough version, teh brothers overpainted some parts and he finished it.
The Geof Darrow joined them, and I have to admit that I've never ever - even not on cgtalk - seen such a crazy artist. His concepts of the inner architectur of the Nebukadnezzar ist so astonishingly detailed, I couldn't believe it... (these concepts are on douple pages you can unfold)
I've never read a screenplay before, so I was very thrilled to read this one and had some grins when I realized that they even mentioned the erm's in the dialogues ;)
The coloured sketches are really vivid and cool to look at. The thing I liked most was that Geof, Steve and Tani wrote some comments to pictures of the storyboard, so I could l,ook behind this huge preproduction process and felt like part of this small team.
Exciting, visually amazing and indeed in the changing room. I really liked it.

To complete this insight, I gonna watch the movie this evening.

Some pen-leg-cooperations in the metro from yesterday evening ;)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung5.jpg

Gentle

Kinematics

09-21-2007, 05:51 PM

Oh my goosh gentle! I am so impressed how well organized on your own! U really are an inspiration honestly :) I too constantly read and devote time to projects but being as dedicated and committed as you is really awesome.

I don't really have time to view all your clips but the animation is pretty good and its really cool that your reading so much and taking photo references. Bravo brother!

Well Ill keep checking this thread. Would love to see you get better the you already are. Keep up this pace and your gonna be amazing I bet.

Cheers!

Gentle

09-23-2007, 02:01 PM

Thank you :)

The next book seems to take more time, so I will post it these days.
On my way going out yesterday I sketched a bit around :)

The bear and rabbit were drawn by a drunken guy I met in the nightline, after finishing them he shouted SAMBA! and tumbled out of the bus ;)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung6.jpg

By the way, the next week I'm going to set my focus on drawing, so I'll draw 10-12 hours a day and meet with a 2D-Animation-drawing-student in downtown :)

Gentle

ErikSvensson

09-23-2007, 10:18 PM

Oh my.. That's just odd that you haven't gotten any more replies here. (first time I read the thread myself, though :shrug: ) and I gotta say its really nice to see all things going on here. I'll definitly keep an eye or two on this thread, very inspiring due to the big amount of variations :thumbsup:

Erik

Gentle

09-24-2007, 11:19 PM

Thank you, Erik! :)

Today I used the day pretty well, 10 hours of Starbucks-sitting, full of drawing, reading and sleeping.

During the last night I printed the reference images, which are all row-images (iI dunno the term, when you have a motion multiple times per second captured and composed).
So I had them beside me while drawing the motions (or in case of the snowboard image, I drew the whole image like it was printed)
The wallflip and some other drawings are out-of-my-head.

The model overpainting was like an enlightment - I was NEVER ever able to draw women, no way, they all got masculine or androgyne, but never female. And after overpainting Naomi Campbell I tried it and it worked! BAM!
I'm really proud of the lying woman, she's without any reference and ... yeah :D

The row-image reference:
http://blv-nachwuchs.ch/nwkader/sprung/Tests/2007/RB%20Thomas%2020.01.07.pdf
http://www.blv-nachwuchs.ch/nwkader/wurf/Speer/technik-muster.jpg
http://www.gymfacts.ch/custom/help/help.php3?typ=1&hs=112
http://www.swiss-hurdling.ch/file/Sprintanalyse_Lauf.pdf
http://images.digicamfotos.de/media/214/big-air-graz.jpg
http://www.snowboard-italia.com/foto-snowboard/sfondi-snowboard/foto-snowboard-1-1024-768.jpg

Models out of the newspaperwith overpaint:
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung7.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung8.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung9.jpg

drawings from today:
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung10.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung11.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung12.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung13.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung14.jpg

Greets,
Gentle

NeilMarriott

09-25-2007, 12:59 AM

Wow, got some good stuff going on there :) Love seeing the progression and thought processes. Inspiring stuff indeed! I been pretty lazy past couple of weeks, but this threads given me a bit of a jolt to get back to doing some of my own work again. Definitely gonna check back occasionally.

Keep up the work!

Gentle

09-25-2007, 08:34 PM

I will, Neill, I will! :)

Today was another coincident... I was thinking about buying the Playboy for drawing references, when an advertisement appeared right beside a newsstore. So I bought a very cheap woman lifestyle magazine, tore out all the useless pages and overpainted about 10-20 models, just a few examples scanned.
I haven't drawn as much as yesterday but tried some new things and on one sheet there's my first sofcore-pen-porn :D
(those who like leather boots and hankerchieds, mail me, I'll scan it in a billion DPI).
I've also read quite a bit, so I think tomorrow there'll be a new review :)

Have fun at viewing.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung15.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung16.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung17.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung18.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung19.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung20.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung21.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

09-26-2007, 08:59 PM

The drawings from today, as usual fromn about 9:30am until 8:00pm. This time we were four people (during the afternoon). tomorrow will be the l,ast drawing day for this week.
I dunno yet what to do the next week because I have still five books to read and ... humm, yes.
Yesterday I was struggling enormously with drawing hands, so I chose to draw many today :)
The first sheet of paper took me a long time, from morning to noon, because I drew so many little figurettes on this one sheet ;)
On the left side of it there's a little step by step "tutorial" of how I construct the little "animations".
There was another problem - not knowing ANYTHING about animal Proportions or anatomy, so you can see many erased lines at the horse - I didn't know in which direction their knees are bending ;)

(click image for bigger version)
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1510/ohnetitel2gk3.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung22.jpg)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung23.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung24.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

09-27-2007, 08:00 PM

Today I borrowd two anatomy books by Gottfried Bammes, one about human, one about animal anatomy. They're interesting but there's no real tutorial oder well-prepared advice in them, they're a kind of reference books.

The nude images were done with photo reference and very quick, so I didn't use my eraser on purpose to get more feeling for the drawn line.
The policewoman was done with a photo reference from the newspaper :D

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung25.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung26.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung27.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung28.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

09-30-2007, 05:44 PM

The show must go on ;)
I was on a seminar for the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service Abroad (AHMS), so I didn't have much time - but enough to print some nude pictures (or partly nude) and draw some of them on the train.
Because I don't take a nude studies course yet, I have to do something similar.

Page two are only men, so I was a bit motiveless :D

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung29.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung30.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung31.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

10-02-2007, 10:49 AM

A bit too late, but today's okay too :D
I decided to make another drawing week, so here's Day one of it ;)

yesterday...:

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung34.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung32.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung33.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

10-03-2007, 09:04 AM

Yesterday I visited a nude drawing session, I participated for two times a 2-hour-course. It was greeeeeeat and I really recommend everybody on the whole earth to have a look at such a course!

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung35.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung36.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung37.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung38.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung39.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung40.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung41.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung42.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung43.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung44.jpg

Gentle

10-03-2007, 09:11 AM

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung45.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung46.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung47.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung48.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung49.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung50.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

10-03-2007, 07:56 PM

Starbucks, Starbucks - and me, full-time-chatotic idiot, forgot the reference pics, so I drew right out of the head (wow, what a Germanism) ;)

AOnpage two you see two persons from a well-known film, especially the little one is perfectly drawn.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung51.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung52.jpg

Gentle

LiannaS

10-04-2007, 06:50 AM

Your form is really coming along! I might have to try that technique of sketching over photographs to practice proportions...the payoff really showed with you. Keep posting :)

Gentle

10-04-2007, 09:28 PM

A day of demotivation, narcoleptic bahaviour and the penultimate page of my waste-sketchbook :scream:

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung53.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung54.jpg

Gentle

LiannaS

10-05-2007, 12:31 AM

Nice job! Don't forget to include line of action to get the pose down quickly, I can see your construction lines are present so that's a great start :)

Gentle

10-05-2007, 06:08 PM

I believed yesterday was my least-outcome-day - but it even gets worse! Great! :D
By the way, now my two sketchbooks are full and finished, here's a photo of them... (the one is out of waste, with five pages of hyper-complex math terms from the former owner, the other one was created with waste and GAFFA duct tape, with which you can patch your shoes, make sketchbooks or heal cancer.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung55.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Sketchbooks.jpg

The second drawing week is over (I'm feeling that my motivation is going to hit the ground, so I appreciate that the next week is different) - the following week will be a reading week, so be prepared for some new reviews ;)

Gentle

Gentle

10-10-2007, 12:35 AM

This post is a bit longer because it includes - in fact - three days.

I partcipated - also because of different interests - to an acting school in vienna, http://www.schauspielschule.at/ is their homepage.
The course is expensive, and I took all five available modules (I have just four month left in Austria).
For a trimester I pay 1000€, and I am glad my parents helped me "a bit" to pay that, you know. as an unemployee the financial times are not that sky-high ;)
The course is AWESOME.

I do it with a good friend of mine, Hannes, who isn't into 3D but also interested in the side-effects of this coruse, as I'm too.
We have these five modules, one for voice, one for bodyworks, one for body-breath-voice, one for acting and one for emotional training.
We do that sunday and monday from 10am to early afternoon.
The groups are 4-7 people and one tutor, so it's small and really relaxing, just great.

I'll tell you what we did in the first unit:

-voice: analyzing our own dialects (German isn't equal to German ;) ), looking for tongue, throat and vocal chord's functions in speaking. Training the pure sound "AA". Reading a crazy text with 60% A's in a group of foru and pronunciating it totally exxageratedly.
-bodywork: male and female gestures and behaviour analyzation, miming it and exaggerating these movements like you'd do it in character animation - there are soo many parallels!
-acting: analyzing our walks and walkcycles, feeling the muscle's and joint's functions in the walking process. Training axaggerated poses while walking - a freeze - to different emotional states.
-emotional basic training: wasn't taking place as one guy just jumped off right before start, so we'll try to find a new man for that for the next week.
-body-breath-voice: training berathing techiques like breathing-thourgh-stomache, analyzing the lungs and its functions, training right postures for the most efficient breathing. A big point I didn't know yet was to shift the position of the sternum - its a huge, huge factor of radiation.

by the way, the three basics of the ACT&Fun-school , the 3 P's, are: Power, Presence and Painfulness :D

Damn cool!

The last two days, I finished a new book:

"Geheimnisse der Filmgestaltung" (Secrets of Film Composition)
by Arnold Heinrich Müller
ISBN: 3 7949 0711 6
(I think it's just available in German)

A fantastic book about everything a semiprofessional wants to know about film design.
It's 300 pages thick and has many pictures for explanation; it's easy to read and fast to understand.
It begins with recapitulating the film history like the "Laterna Magica" and Edison's "Kinetoscope", ending up in the modern digital camcorders which are fitting into a handbag.
Then there's a chapter about planning a film, beginning with an exposè, advancing to a treatment and finishing with a screenplay. It's really important to make a concept of your film and planning it in detail.
By time, a film alnguage, a film "code" was developed, with which you can save time - for example, the character enters and leaves an elevator and everybody knows that he's now on another floor.
Continuity is of enormous importance, so a film has always making it possible for the viewer to follow what's happening. This can be done by a continuity in 1-3 of the 3 channels: time, location and action.
There's a huge chapter about the design itself, which has many parallels to still-image design, with the doubling factor of another dimension, time. So it's for example important when you film a formula-1-racing car, that you give it space in the parts of the image that are in front of the car, this creates a feeling of danamics.
It's essential to have the camer positioned on one side of a dialogue, in a 180-degree-space, so that the characters never change their lef-right-position in the filmed dialogue.
If you want to cross that acting line, you can do that i.e. by making a hemicircluar move with the camera around the actors.
Concerning the shot size (the part of person that's shown by the camera), you have to be "soft" with the viewer. When going from a total shot to a detail shot, you have to add for example an "American"-inbetween shot (shwoing the character from knees to head).
There's a thick chapter about sound design, in which all the basic principles are explained like that the surrounding sounds have to be lowered when somebody says a text and then to be heightened again (concerning amplitude).
There's a detailled chapter about drama, in which the importance of anticipation, excitement phases, the importance of rhythm in editing and the storytelling perspectives are furtherly declared.
For people who are interested in making films, it's a great basic book and also an important reference book.

Gentle

Gentle

10-10-2007, 10:20 PM

Today I read a bit, but it was too less,
so the next review comes tomorrow.

I wanted to go to a nude drawing course on university (altough I'm not a student, I wanted to try "just getting in"), but it was closed and is beginning next week. Soooo Thomas, Gerald and me went to the Nature Historical Museum Vienna and drew some animals... these are my scribbles with a graphit pen (I forgot all my drawing stuff, so I had no rubber):

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung56.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung57.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung58.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung59.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung60.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung61.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung62.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

10-11-2007, 11:16 PM

Damn, I just make no progress with that book.

But I'm now involved - parallely - in a real-movie-project.
I met today with Hannes and Thomas to speak about our shots and settings.
Hannes and me will be directing the movie, so we made first quick sketches.

My first steps in storyboarding :D

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung63.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

10-13-2007, 03:04 AM

Just came home from going out ... this is the next book:

"Storyboard"
by Marcie Begleiter
ISBN: 3861504987

This book was awesome. It has 200 pages, is very fresh to read, has a variety of content styles - tutorial-like, industrially relevant and personal experiences of Marcie.
Soryboards are a central element in the preproduction of films. The storyboard artist works veryclose to the director, the camera man and the production designer.
For better results, the storyboard artist should be participating the shot-discussion and take notes, so the process of visualizing the shot-list is a lot easier.
A storyboard artist has to be able to make the director's visions come true, to transform the screenplay from words to images. For exapmle, if the whole team is on the set and nobody has an idea how to take the next shot, which setting etc. everbody is bored - and also bored actors cost a lot.
So storyboards save time and energy, which is a basic reason why they're so important for the preproduction phase.
A storyboard looks like comic, all the images have numbers (two levels - scene numbers and take numbers) and uses visual elements like arrows to describe camera or actor movement.
For dolly zooms or transitions, the storyboard artist has to use extended image frames (like a very wide image to describe a horizontal camera rotation) or he makes graphic top views and marks the camera positions und transitions.
It is IMPORTANT to make a storyboard just as simple as necessary. When a film isn't yet financed and the director shows the production company a too detailled storyboard, the producers recognize that the film is very strictly planned - and that's bad for business.
When the project is financed, the director can prefer different styles: with pen, with ink, or even with light and shadow-painting,
In the last chapter, Marcie describes the most important point - "How to get a job", as a storyboard artist.
Her hints were very helpful, I could feel her professionality and experience. She recommends to work at any project you can get, as whatever you want (she even had to carry away cow shit on an alpine pastuire for a picnic scene). By that, you can make your experiences "out there" in the real business world, and not some theoretical practices.
She also goes into detail if and how to work with an artist agency.
At the end of the book, there's a huge list of online communities, homepages, literature and films.

Gentle

Gentle

10-15-2007, 06:11 PM

Acting course, yesterday and today:

-SGK (Acting Basic Course): We m,at a clap-circle, in which everybody gave an impulse forward, so we clapped, stamped, leaned our bodies, made an expression and screamed, all at the same time. The next exercise was that we got together in pairs, and while one person closed his/her eyes, the other one lead her through the room without touching or colliding the other pairs and walls. Really interesting how much people are used to see patterns in movement and try to move like they think they'll be led.
-EBT (Emotional Basic Training): Was hard this time. We first constructed, feature by feature, a very angry facial expression, watched each other and gave feedback. Then we had to affront and call each other names very quickly, what was really hard (we didn't hate each other, so it's way not that easy as if we were serious about that). Funny how everybody tried to smile after affronting somebody, signalizing not to be serious - altough this was an exercise. Then we used our anger facial expression and began to brethe very deep, shout and scream, stamp and throwingaround our arms.

A little notice: For usual, actors create their emotions based on memories or imagination. Act&Fun is the only school in europe that offers a body-based emotional training. For that, our trainer told us an anecdote: A director wanted an actor to play anger developing out of grief, so he told him to imagine a circus tent full of murdered children.
If an actor does that too long and too often, he'll be very likely to start drinking or get depressions.
When he uses his memories, there's the problem that after 300 shows in the theatre, the dead grandma memory isn't that effective any more as it was in the beginning.
So this school creates emotions via the body, very technically, controllable and still realistic.

-SPKA (Acting Bodywork): First, we made a warm-up to feel all parts of our body consciously and improving our body coordination. Then we teached each other the typical male/female behaviour of the last week, and I tell you, it was damn great to watch two good-looking girls falling into their chairs and banging the imaginated beer bottle on the table while watching soccer. :D
Acting like a woman was very hard for me, all the movements are so tiny, finetuned, small and soft... but I was able to produce a funny Bruce Darnell walk ;)
-PH (Phonetik): Exact analysis of the sounds Mm, Nn, Aa, A and Ng. Additionally we trained our tongue and massaged the throat. Then we read senseless sentences with many A's, threw sounds through the room, and trained to controll the amount of air we used for differend sound intensities.
-AKS (Atem-Körper-Stimme): Very vitalizing exercises, in which we stretched our lower-rib-muscles (these are partly those we need to breath), did breathing exercises, voice training, tongue position training and stretching with combined relaxation. Many exercises are similar to Yoga. Fresh! ;)

Gentle

Gentle

10-16-2007, 09:32 PM

This week will be a character modeling week - to understand and animate characters, I want to model some of them on my own.
http://www.3dtutorials.sk/index.php?id=166

I haven't - except two comic characters and one deformed head - never experienced character modeling, so i sat eight hours modeling this woman. When it came down to the feet, I tried it on my own with photo references, but they look really male and weren't fitting to her, so I disconnected them again.
I'll model new ones tomorrow.
I'd be pleased about modeling critique, especially concerning meshflow and so on. :)
What can I improve?
(btw. it's one HyperNURBS tesselation)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/FeetWIP1.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP1.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP1Wire.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

10-17-2007, 09:00 PM

Today I did the head, again Boxmodeling, after this Tutorial (http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/%7Emimura/tutorials/index_e.html)and without any references, what was damn hard (so I freaked out a few times :D )

I also corrected some body parts - ribs, belly and breasts (so they lose their pornstar-character but keep the silicon-llok of my reference).

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP2.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP2Head.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP2Wire.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

10-18-2007, 11:23 PM

Today I began modelling the hands. I've never thought that a hand is sooo complicated - still in progress.
I went over the basic proportions, hip bones and breats.

Last but not least, the today's nude drawing course - I had to get in without permission.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP3.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP3Hand.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung64.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung65.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung66.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung67.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung68.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung69.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung70.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung71.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

10-19-2007, 10:30 PM

Today I finished the hand, based on this tutroail and some own insights:
http://www.3dtutorials.sk/index.php?tutorials=4&software=3&id=237&page=
and started the foot, after Steven Stahlbergs tutorial: http://www.3d.sk/tutorials/Modeling_a_foot_in_Maya.htm
I didn't finish it yet - tragically - so I used the time toi make it very accurate and studied my own feet, especially volume. I attach an image where you can see my constructions.
The foot references come from this Page (http://www.spectralogue.com/textures/index.php?path=41).

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP4.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP4Hand.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP4HandWire.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8899/footscreenoj4.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/FootScreen.jpg)

Gentle

Gentle

10-21-2007, 11:51 PM

The feet are finished - and the character-modeling week is over! :)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP5Fuss.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP5FussWire.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/WomanWIP5.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

10-22-2007, 09:36 PM

Acting course Sunday/Monday:

SGK: Clap circle with great speed improvement - because we tried to not think about the question "is it my turn or not" but just tried to "feel" it. Works suprisingly awesome ;)
Then we made a shoe where we had to walk in front of the group, very, very, very slowly look at each of them and say "My name is [Tobias]". It's thrilling how hard and intime that is..

EBT: Thinking about the liver's role in agression. NLP-like imagination of modeling an energy ball out of the liver and use it to enhance our facial expression. Hard to imagine, but works nicely. Gorilla-walking and screaming at each other in high agression - it's really hard to control body tension, facial expression, voice, breathing and overall shape at the same time. Introduction to penguin-walking, some shape exercises and some karate-like movements.

SPKA: Warming up, some exercises and then four men playing extremely feminine ladies (our two girls in that class were missing). Extremely funny, but complicated to find the right timing and synchronization to the others.

PH: Warming up and massaging the mouth, tongue and cheeks, throwing Ps, Ks and Ts through the room. reading a text with widely opened moth, but at the same time no tension in the cheeks and a very forward position of the tongue. (that's quite impossible ;) ) When the tongue is too backwards, you get quiter, unfocused and dull.

AKS: Breathing into certain spots on the back, stretching rib muscles, deep belly breathing and three-level-breathing which resulted in 5 seconds of breathing in and 16 seconds of breathing out loudly. Training the pure "aaaa"-sound, posture training and important for that..: breastbone!

Today I watched a part of the C4D-learning DVD you get with version 10 package. Two hours of rigging-videotutorial, very detailled and highly interesting... hope, I watch the rest tomorrow and try it out with a "dead foot". Hand-claps to Maxon, the rigging tools are, as far as I saw on the training video, really flexible and totally easy to understand.

Actually I wanted to animate something today, but a student filmmaking-project with four friends (real-movie, 3mins in length) is taking so much time in preproduction :D

Gentle

Gentle

10-24-2007, 12:43 AM

I watched the rest of the learning-vid "Flabio - Rigging". (about 2-3 hours, 300MB)
And I have to say ... gorgeous. Its such a flowing, smooth way to rig characters with the new MOCCA module, I imagined it a hundred times more complicated. I'm lookin forward to rig my first character ;)
I just have to applaud Maxon for that tool...: You set the joints, polevectors and IK-targets, select the joints and the mesh, press the bind-button and overwork the auto-wightmap slightly (it delivers great automated solutions), mirror the weighting with the powerful character-mirror-tool and add XPresso-Userdata. That's it.
I hope I'll rig a simple foot tomorrow so I can start animating... :)

Gentle

10-24-2007, 11:27 PM

What a day ... my father gives me some mail ... from MAXON Gmbh ... hrm, I fall asleep again. At 10:30 AM the phone rings, and what's beside me on the bed, packed in a safety-mail? The 10.5 XL-Update for Cinema, and a 5,5 hours training DVD for character animation and especially rigging. Just for fun, obviously I didn't bought or ordered the update.

So I watched a lot of the video material. I think about modeling a whole character and rigging it before I start with animating the feet or legs and "work myself up the body". So I scribbeled a bit in the bathtub ;)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung73.jpg

Then I modelled a shoe, played around with rigging and making a jump-animation - it's a bit mor complicated than I awaited it :D

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/shoejump.mov

By the way, I was nude sketching today but forgot my sketchbook in the drawing room ;)

Gentle

Gentle

10-25-2007, 10:34 PM

Today I watched parts of this super-long tutorial. It's about rigging a complete bunny-mesh - the English with French accènt is jùst à gòòdie :D

Unfortunately, today my sketchbook was gone, lost forever, uhuhuhuuu - half that bad, the most drawings are digitalized in a low resolution, and whatever I was fond of this waste-style, the only thing that counts is my experience with it. Goodbye sketchbook, whoever may have taken you :D

So today I had no sketchbook, and because I wanted to participate in the nude drawing course, I just took a BIG sheet (like Din A1) out of the wastepaper basket there. Worked nice :D

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung74.jpg

By the way, I found out that there is a bunch of preset rigs for MOCCA, I played around a bit with them and the bast handling for me had this reggae-monster.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/MoccaPresets.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

10-27-2007, 02:11 PM

The last week, I had to think about many things... the dead foot is way harder than I thought, somehow I can't handle a single foot. So I'll directly continue to a whole leg, and I needed a leg... my conclusion was: I need to design a character, rig it myself and then begin to animate the little parts.

I looked up some reference images...:

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/galeeekrefcomp.jpg

So I sketched a bit around... the "character sheet":

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung75.jpg

Actually, it's not a chracter sheet because I didn't yet decide what parts I put together. This is the reason for this "early" post: which elements, e.g. hairstyle and accessoirs, would you choose of these?

Gentle

Gentle

10-29-2007, 09:12 PM

A discussion with my dad lead me to the idea, to make a couchpotatoe-guy instead of a nerd. Would be maybe a bit more attractive ;)

like ... a white undershirt with beer blotches, yellowish underpants, 12-day-beard, ****ed up hair and so on ... what do you think about that?
I'll draw one more character-sheet ;)

For the next weeks, I split the MOCCA-IK-boy, this week I'll animate one leg, the next one two legs and the hip, then legs and torso and in one month I'll animate the whole body. During that, I'll model my character, rig him and finally begin to animate him after succeeding with the MOCCA-standard-rig.

That's from today:
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump1.mov
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump2.mov

Acting course from sunday/monday:

SGK: We did again the leading exercise, then we learnt a new game, something like a realistic ragdoll-thingy: one person stands on front of the other, while the person pushes him/her on different spots on the back. It's hard to neither block the pushes nor exaggerate the reaction.
Then we did an interesting exercise in which you look your partner directly into the eyes, put your hands between you (so that they don't touch), and try to feel the warmth of you partner's hands and try to lead and follow subtle hand movements. That exercise is about 5-10 minutes long and really cool.

EBT: Penguin walk, more intese usage of the liver in connection to push the eyes aggressively out, one game for three persons, one in the middle, the second holding him under the arms and the third pushing into the hollow of the knees. A pity that I got a kick in the face :D

SPKA: Warming up with closed eyes and the we did a posture analysis of everyone - with venezian masks, so that it was impossible to see any face expressions. AMAZING how different people look with these neutral masks!!

PH: Throwing different sounds through the room, tongue training and massage, reading a goofy text with focus on pronounciation and slo reading. And we did an exercise in which we had to read a sentence in one rush, to use more air in our voice. Was fun as usual :)

AKS: Spot-breathing, breathing on counting, the cat exercise (making a hunchback and bendig the back downwards while breathing deeply), the tree-exercise from Yoga (in which you stretch you rib-muscles and get a more flexible ribcage) and some other stretching exercises.

Gentle

Gentle

10-31-2007, 09:32 AM

Hehe yeah, I think I put my adress on the first page, maybe in some years I'll get it back :D

Ah... a bunch of time today, so I started with a reference video:

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Footage_Oneleg.mov

To get a better understanding for the movement of my leg, I watched the *.mov frame-by-frame and drew the most important points on a sheet of paper that I held on my screen ;)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung76.jpg

During the day I did the following animations - I seperately rendred the blocking process.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump3.mov

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump4block.mov
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump4.mov

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump5block.mov
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump5.mov

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump6block.mov
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump6.mov

Gentle

Gentle

10-31-2007, 11:33 PM

A new book review:

"Künstliche Welten"
by Rolf Giesen and Claudia Meglin
ISBN: 3203841142

First I didn't want to read it, I thougfht it would be rubbish. Kris Staber accidentally saw it and told me it was a classic. I couldn't resist to have a look, or read the whole book...
In general, it consits of articles by people from the industry, a historical listing olf special effects and a big list of people in the SFX-industry.

So what is it about? In general you could say, about special effects, from their beginning to about the year 2000. On Amazon, you can get it for 149€, what is WAY too much. It's a good book and I really recommend it, but definately not for such a price.

Many special effects-people from the good old times talk about their experiences, the problems in industry, and abou the needed passion - just those film members who work longer and harder than needed, will get on the top.

It was funny to read about their "old" model works, to e.g. make realistic spaceships. As a 3D-artist you think "what the hell, 3D is cheaper!" - but I learnt one thing: 3D is nice, but not always the best - most effective - solution. Today, many films still use models, perspective betrayal and "real" tricks. Matte paintings at "these times" were painted on glass and lightened, when they needed static backgrounds. If the backgrounds had to be moving, they took the background footage and backprojected it on a kind of screen which was then the acting background.
At these times they needed to make multiple exposures to e.g. produce glow-"passes".
A very interesting book that gives you a backstage view of all kinds of SFX and especially away from your computer screen - the chapters that are about computer animation, are a nice anecdote, the most recent story is about Lara Croft ;-)

I think it's very important for a VFX-Artist to know about the "old" techniques, to get much more flexibility in his work.

That's not enough, life drawing session and the character sheet of the concierge!
If you wonder about the paper, I lost my old sketchbook, so I got some new sheets.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung77.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung78.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung79.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung80.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung81.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung82.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung83.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung84.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung85.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

11-01-2007, 11:51 PM

Today, I can only show you blocking videos. For the first, I used footage, for the second one I had no possibility to film that (what?! You don't have a 16 feet monstertruck-tyre?!)

Everything is blocked, just the wheel uses a smooth animation, without that I wouldn't be able to manage animating that.

Oh, and I fell for that head... at least drawing him again, again and again :D

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung86.jpg

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump7block.mov

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Oneleg_Radblock.mov

Gentle

Gentle

11-02-2007, 11:42 PM

Woha, the polishing phase is more difficult than I thought ;)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump7.mov

Gentle

Gentle

11-04-2007, 01:36 AM

Weekend - my mind is free and full of rubbish :D

First, I updated both animations a bit:
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legjump7.mov

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Leg_Rad1.mov

Aaaand I started a little study this evening. It will still take a long time until I'll approach facial animation, but I want to find out, which part of the face is most responsible for emotions - Eyes, Mout, Nose, Eyebrows?

My concept is the following: I photographed my borther and vice versa in the five main emotions - aggression, joy, grief, lust and grief. With these photos I'll make an emotion board, each part of the face attached to a neutral face pose. You'll see it tomorrow, now I'm too tired :)

Gentle

PS: the reference video for the stair-jumping, feat. my little brother:
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/FOOTAGE Oneleg Treppe.mov (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/FOOTAGE%20Oneleg%20Treppe.mov)

Gentle

11-04-2007, 09:04 PM

Here we go...:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=4754860

Gentle

11-10-2007, 11:54 PM

One week in Italy, Torino... I surfed (http://www.couchsurfing.com) for the first time a couch and was attending the VIEW Conference (http://www.viewconference.it). I'll definately write a review about all the speeches from Pixar, Dreamworks, Sony Imageworks and Co. :)

I had my sketchbook with me, so I couldn't resist to draw a bit around and finally do my first complete character design.
(in the last pictures, you can see impressions of the waiting room at Blogna centrale, about 3:00 AM :D)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung87.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung88.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung89.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung90.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung91.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung92.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung93.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung94.jpg

Gentle

Gentle

11-14-2007, 10:06 AM

Acting course from this sunday/monday:

... and I have to say, it was so damn awesome. We did a lot of new stuff...!!

SGK: Clap circle, this time we had to "feel" when we are getting an impulse. Then a new exercise, standing in a circle, and one person has "it", with whcih he or she can push another person out of the circle and take their place, while the pushed out person has got "it". IT#s kind of a magnetic push-thing.
And then came the burner... one person has to stand still somewehere in the room, another person standing opposite to her, and then running through this guy, as if not recognizing the person. It was very hard to just run through another person, because you have to meet hardly with the breast. Awesome thing, it needs so much self-control.

EBT: Passing on energy, penguin walk, the SSSSSSHH!, bending-knees-exercise, and sreaming at each other.

SPKA: this was the perfect preproduction for learning walkcycles: First we tried to stand upright and relaxed with our upper body while walking, then we tried to act as if...:

-barefoot going trough sand
-barefoot going on tiny stingy stones
-going with skiing boots
-going upwards/downwards a hill/mountain
-full of love walking through fresh 5 cm snow
-walking through 50cm deep snowfield
-going barefoot on a too hot ground
-balancing at a small path along a cliff

and much much more, for about one and a half hours.

It was soo funny to watch people doing certain things especially exaggerated/realistically, like going on high-heels: Killer!
For walkcycles and variations it's just genious because you watch your own movements with such a focused perception... like miming a steep mountain-wandering just with socks in a room with a flat wooden floor... hehe!

PH: Ah, the cork! ;)
First, we warmed up, then we had to pronounce a special german combination of words with -ig, which has many rules. Then a trendemous funny exercise followed, we had to read the same sentences, but with a cork between our teeth :D
You laugh your ass off if you hear yourself struggeling to say any words with no possibility to close your moth ;)

AKS: Stretching exercises, e.g. the cobra, where you rest in a mekka-praying-position and then move your torso forward and upwards, letting your back hang through and breathing deeply. Then we did deep breathing and treif to make a tone out of our crumb sound, which is a really resonant, stomach-based tone. Nice!

Gentle

Gentle

11-14-2007, 11:02 PM

Damn, again prepared something but couldn't finish it yet.

Soon, I'll start with walkcycles, so I took many footage videos today. You can look forward to see Gentle in tight pants and a ton of downloadable clips, hopefully, my webspace can take that :D

So you have to wait until tomorrow... :)

Gentle

Gentle

11-14-2007, 11:08 PM

Gentle

11-15-2007, 11:42 PM

On the one hand I was drawing in Starbucks with Thomas:

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung95.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung96.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung97.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung98.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung99.jpg

On the other hand, I worked over the footage I took yesterday. 60 videos- 10 different walkcycles, 6 different camera positions/angles.

I thought about it for a long time, now I'm sure: there will be a bigger, widened version of this thread, as an ebook.
Don't worry, I won't post less content in this thread ... there's just much, much more than what you have seen here :)

So ... "just" 6 footage videos.
Now I can feel like these tv-series-producers...

"To be continued" ;)

More on this ebook-thing alteron, I don't want to make too much worries to it.

this is a quick sketch of how the footage videos are concepted

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/cam_setup.jpg

I marked my legs with duct tape, as a bone-imitation ... on really tight pants, which looks a bit weird - have fun ;)

So here are 6 videos - 6 views of the same sneaking motion.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/silent_left.mov
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/silent_right.mov
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/silent_front.mov
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/silent_back.mov
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/silent_top_left.mov
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/silent_top_right.mov

Gentle

Gentle

11-16-2007, 10:00 PM

Ah, I lost my blocked-walkcycle-virginity :D

Actually, I tried the whole day to delay it and delay it, my first walkcycle, but finally I did it.
This is my screen setup:

http://www.gentle.tk/3d/thumbs/Screen_Bipedth.jpg (http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Screen_Biped.jpg)
So, CInema and three views, which are running continually in loop mode. Perfect for finding out the right movement from all perspectives.

Here's the animation, first blocked if there should be some mistakes. :)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Walkcycle_normal_block.mov

Gentle

Gentle

11-17-2007, 10:23 PM

I'm not quite sure, if my method was good - I first animated the single body parts on the not-moving character and then animated the master mover to give the character a motion. So the single parts don't slip on the floor, but is this method useful, or what would be an alternative to move the character?

Suggestions?

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Walkcycle_normal_block1.mov

Gentle

Gentle

11-22-2007, 11:09 PM

Soooo .. what do I have to offer today?

One neutral polishing and one depressed blocking ... :)

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Walkcycle_normal.mov

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legs_Depressed_block.mov

Gentle

Gentle

11-24-2007, 11:04 AM

Yesterday worked a little bit on the depressed walk:

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legs_Depressed_block1.mov

Gentle

Gentle

11-24-2007, 05:27 PM

Smuf!

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Legs_Depressed.mov

Gentle

Gentle

11-27-2007, 04:59 PM

Acting school....:

SGK: Billiard, space recognition without seeing or hearing anything (or trainer put in the "Roxanne" song from the Moulin Rouge Soundtrack ... superb. Really fascinating how we are able to recognize space without our common senses.

EBT: Gorilla walk, penguin run, karate exercise WITH using the liver .. man I was feared of my partner, I mean, just punching, okay, but with a really aggressive expression, screaming and moving towards me while punching the punchtargets .. whow! Then we did a JuJitsu-like exercise in which you had to push your partner on one shoulder and he tried to stay as soft as possible in his torso so that he just tuned but didn't have to step back.

SPKA: Stone-throwing with different emotions and intensities, exercising for the final evening.

PH: Reading a wikipedia-piece loudly (about perversion, which is the topic for the final evening), and of course the warming-up training. As soon as I said the text the first time freely, my pronounciation got quite instable. Interesting.

AKS: Really cool lesson. The main topic was the back, so first we did the normal warming-up and stretching, but then we sat in pairs back-to-back and produced some AAAA- and MMMM- sounds... by that I could feel my partner's vibration and warmth, which was a quite impressive feeling. Then we gathered in a circle (with our backs to the inner side), very tightly together and produced very resonant sounds... this was awesome, you could feel the energy in the room and the resonance between our bodies. Amazing :)

Gentle

Gentle

11-28-2007, 09:02 PM

Hot. The first video is orientated at my footage, the second one shows the exaggerated movement.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Walkcycle_hot_block.mov

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Walkcycle_hot_block_exaggerate.mov

Gentle

Gentle

11-30-2007, 12:13 AM

... hot!

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Walkcycle_hotfin.mov

and again life drawing.

http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung100.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung101.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung102.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung103.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung104.jpg
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Zeichnung105.jpg
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Gentle

IvanMitkowski

11-30-2007, 06:51 AM

im loving your drawings here, im sure youve read it, but if not--- read the book the animator's survival kit by richard williams , and maybe stop staring by jason osipa- survival kit is leans more towards 2d animation, but the concepts apply to 3d as well, and stop staring is all about 3d facial animation, but the concepts can apply to 2d in my opinion- keep up the art!!

Gentle

11-30-2007, 08:05 PM

Thanks :)

No, to my shame I have to confess that I didn't buy it yet... :D
But I will. Definately.

Here the new polished version:
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Walkcycle_hot1.mov

Gentle

Gentle

12-02-2007, 02:03 PM

tweaked around a little bit. :)
http://www.gentle.tk/anim/Walkcycle_hot2.mov

Gentle

12-06-2007, 06:39 PM

Again live drawing. Damn I have to get a new pencil ... I hate this one ;)

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Gentle

Gentle

12-12-2007, 08:08 PM

Soo, today again life drawing; the next week will be again a pure animation week.

I thought, it is important to set a sign. There should be no genitals shown on the internet. Especially in boards where underaged kids are surfing.
Because we all know, genitals are weird, ugly, bad, pervert, evil, dreary, disgusting and from hell.
So I think people should no show them, and of course, should not draw them.

Just as little, there should be no nipples shown. And no armpits. And hollow of knees. And ears. And hell knows, what else not.

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Gentle