Intro Reel Animation

[skellybobbly]

Hiya,


Great little animation.
It'll be a good way to start your reel.


Cheers


Jon

[luigi]

nice animation quite like the the timing and squash strech.
but i have to say i love the othe movie in your vimeo the facial test , great animation and great characters :).

[AsaMovshovitz]

very smooth, very nice,
great stuff:)

[LlopisAnimation]

Thanks for your comments.
Luigi: Thank you, it was a little facial animation to test the deformations.

[cryzeg]

Wuaaw! I love this piece! Has a lot of appeal, very fresh and fluid. I want to see more!
Congratulations!!

Está chulísima! ;-)

[EricDLegare]

Cool Animation :thumbsup:

[LlopisAnimation]

Thanks cryzeg, yes, I've enjoyed a lot animating this piece because never thing on whats next, simply improvised and have fun. Mola que te mole !!! :D

Thanks Eric :thumbsup:

[Abazaba]

excellent work! great intro anim, makes me want to see more!

[InDyJones12]

from the first second of watching it i thought to myself " wow, this is good." i would definitely use this as the intro to your reel. very captivating, and a nice subtle ending to lead into more animation. i say DO IT :beer:

[saraloup]

Took a look at your other videos too and it's all really nice work!

[LlopisAnimation]

Thanks to all for the comments.
Indy, now it's time to decide wich videos I want to put in my reel, that's the hard part...:scream:

[M4DM4N]

Nice work very human like motions:thumbsup: I also love that bio mech

[YuriyXXX]

one word: wow

teach me

[GuineaPog]

It looks good, you got some real animation talent. And you other reels show some very good stylized character design. If you could tie together your themes you could make an impressive reel.

[Finkle]

Let me add my voice to everyone else's in this thread when I say: VERY NICE!

[LlopisAnimation]

one word: wow

teach me

I'm just an apprentice... :p

Thanks a lot for the comments

[paulmcg1]

Hey David, very nice animation. I'm glad you had fun with it! It shows!

[paulmcg1]

By the way, when you say you straight-aheaded this, you mean that you went to frame 1 in your software, posed him out, then to frame 2, posed him out, frame 3, posed him out, and so on?

[Zookoo]

Nice animation! I was watching it over and over again hehe! Your other stuff on vimeo was fun to watch too. Would be cool to see the reel come together soon!

[LlopisAnimation]

Hey paulmcg1, thanks for the comments, when i talk about "straight-ahead animation, yes, more or less is that, the process was to improvise all the action in the scene, I don't have an idea to realise, so, in this case there's no planification in the process.
No thumbnails, no planification, I've just put the character in the scene with a falling down, after that I was think in introduce all the elements like table, chair and laptop, so I decided to make a jump and roll in the air and finally all the rest.
If I was have that idea initially in my mind I was planified all the poses with thumbnails to decide the acting, after that, I was put all the poses of my character to define the timming and so on.

Here you have cool links about "Straight-ahead" and "Pose to Pose" animation:
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/character_animation/principles/straightaheadandpose.htm
http://anipedia.thebackalleys.com/index.php/Animating_Straight_Ahead_and_Pose_to_Pose
http://frederatorblogs.com/channel_frederator/2009/02/08/principles-of-animation-straight-ahead-and-pose-to-pose/
http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/popThru/popThru.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animation

Thanks Zookoo, hope to finish the reel soon if I have time after the work and family ;)

[isaak]

Cool anim! :-)

[paulmcg1]

Oh, thanks for the links.

[LlopisAnimation]

Gracias Isaak, what about your batman anim, I can't find it !!!

[hugogt]

Excellent intro for an excellent reel, I'm sure!
Good job David, as usual....good luck man.

[LlopisAnimation]

Hey Hugo, thanks for the comment. :D

[kundankhati]

very nice,great stuff

[paulmcg1]

Hey David, I had another question for you...how can I learn to animate like you? The straight-ahead method and getting good animation like you've gotten. Thanks!

[Eaze]

Really nice work on every shots ^^

[LlopisAnimation]

Thanks kundankhati and Eaze.
Hey David, I had another question for you...how can I learn to animate like you? The straight-ahead method and getting good animation like you've gotten. Thanks!
Well, the answer is simple, you're in the right place, "Animation Mentor", for me is one of the best schools you can choose to learn animation, apart from learn the right way to planning an animation and the workflow. In AM you can find the best animators of the planet.

The Straight-Ahead method, for me is just for fun, if you are in the middle of a production like tv series, commercials or movies, obviously, you will have a script and storyboard to follow, so, for me, the best way to do the work is pose to pose to find the correct timming or to stretch some actions in the time you have to realise it, show to your lead or client and after that refine, refine, refine, and when you'll finish your animation your lead or client will see something different :argh:

Jokes apart, I've learned to animate by myself reading a lot of books, find information in internet and specially seing a lot of animated movies, for me Chuck Jones classics are my inspiration. One more thing, observe everithing around you and take mental notes or make drawings.

Sorry, I'm boring you !!! in spanish: menudo rollazo que he soltao !!! :hmm:

[yacine]

really loved yhis one very dynamic animation keep goin ;)

[paulmcg1]

Awesome David :)

[Bun]

Great movement and rendering! Really enjoyed your other videos on vimeo as well!

Do you mind sharing the technique used for that table jumping out in the scene? I've been using Maya for quite a bit but I have never really figured out how to do this technique (did you hide the table below the floor surface?

[LlopisAnimation]

Thanks Yacine ;)

Bun, the technique I used to animate the table was very simple. I've just animate the entire table as a group, first of all I was animate the scale of the group to grow up the table from the floor, after that I animate the scale of the table's feet and to finish and add some dynamism I've put a nonlinear deformer to the group, in this case a bend deformer to give some extra deformations.
And thats all, simple isn't it?

Hope it helps. Here (http://www.llopisanimation.com/foros/intro_table.mov) you have a playblast of the table alone.

See you and thnks for comment. :D

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