Green Lantern

While at Imageworks I had the pleasure of working on "The Green Lantern"; and all I can say is it looks awesome. It was definitely different working on mainly VFX, but there was some animation shots and will soon have those up once the film comes out.

Sony Imageworks

Its been a while since my last post. Landed at Sony Imageworks in January wrapped at end of March. It was a great learning experience, and an awesome place to work. Hopefully as I continue grow and expanded my skill set, I will land back there again.

Animation Test

This test took me 4 days and nights...its not polished but I wanted to push myself on speed and time and see if I could meet the "standard" they requested....I plan to eventually get back to this, polish and rework the entire shot...

Class 6 Finished

I ended class 6 by wrapping up the "Elroy" shot as you saw in the earlier post; still have major work to do on the 2 character shot and ended with polishing up these 2 shots....this would of been the final versions of these shots but a few animation tests have come along and put that on hold....





Alot of work went into this shot and currently just making very minor tweaks and its a wrap on this one...

Class 6 Polish Time

Class 6 was taught by Mark Ofetdal and boy did he push me even further. He once worked at Pixar and now is on his own journey, working on his own and freelancing. In his class I had to polish my demo reel and it was not easy. I landed a job at Image Metrics and well that cut into my polish time. I had the opportunity to start and finish a new shot and in the end it was worth it.

Here is the shot in the blocking stage




In Class 6 I barely spent time on this shot; I spent most of my time on the above shot but at this point in time this is where this shot stands. I shot new video reference for the last cut as you can see and plan to get back to work on this as soon as I can.

Class 5 Finished

Here is my 2 character shot which is still not finished even today a lot of things of things came up with this shot and I started to fall behind time wise, but I started this shot and will hopefully find the time to get back to this....I really want to finish this up

At this point at the end of Class 5 it was still partly blocked and no lip sync

Class 5 Contiued

Its been such a long time since I've had the time to get back on here. Needless to say Animation Mentor is over (September 2010) and it was a blast. I learned so much and plan to continue to sharpen and build on those skills. The "Elroy" shot was finally finished up in class 6 and here it is....

Class 5

Animation Mentor is just flying by, and I can steadily see the improvement with every class. This class I have Mark Pullyblank. Hes worked on Journey to the Center of the Earth, Night at the Museum, Garfield 1 and 2, Case 39 and just wrapped on Avatar!!. I hope to learn a great deal more from him on facial animation and just continue to push my skills further. With that said here is my shot so far..This is continued from last term and in this class we add the facial animation. I continued to polish the body mechanics from the last post.

Class 4 Continued

Acting Test 2, eventually this will be completed over the course of 4 weeks. This blocking pass will be refined over the course of the 4 weeks with lip and facial animation to be done at the beginning of the next term.

Class 4

This is acting test 1; without any dialogue, consists of two distinct and contrasting “beats” that tell a basic story. This is still a polishing pass and will soon be finished

Prior to the shot above this is what I had done for Class 3; with Steve Cunningham. I never got the chance to really polish these shots, its no excuse but my computer crashed and I lost the Maya work files to these shots....such a bummer. So this is just the work from the 11 week course...

Lopez Tonight

check it out..Im at the Lopez Tonight Show..Awesome Time

Animation Mentor Poses

Here are some poses I came up for the 1st term at animation mentor.

Animation Mentor

Well after spending 4 years at the Art Institute of LA..I felt that I needed a lot more direction in order for me to reach my goal of becoming a Character Animator. AI might of opened the door, but AM is going to take me down the road of success. I just started in March and already feel the difference it has made. I plan to post my work, so keep an eye out.

Stone Age a Red Giant Productions

First a zombie now a caveman....Some quick caveman sketches of myself...Look out for Stone Age a 3d short i worked on coming soon!!

Zombie Walk

This is a rough Flash walk cycle for a zombie. It was for a short titled Monster PD.

Its Zombie Time

Well first the concept then it was Pugaized to match the character style, then I cleaned it up and put it into flash....Now its time to make him walk....Ill post it when its done and soon ill post more of what i did on the upcoming short Monster P.D by Miguel Puga.....I better get paid for this son!!!

Short Clip of some 2D animation

This is from a short I worked on earlier this year in RED GIANT. This turned out to be a great thing for me and the group. We presented this in West Virgina along with other A.I's from around the country. That was a great trip made some contacts and met some great people!! I would have posted the whole thing but its to big of a file. BUMMER. Here my shot and its a taste of some 2d magic. Mike Rogers thanks for everything