Thursday, October 16, 2008

Double Kick 360

Here it is: my personal challenge for the week. The same biped jumping, double kick with a 360, land roll, and kip-up. This was fun. Lots. Seriously. It was a good challenge for me. I really had to concentrate on the weight of the legs and feet. The roll proved to be the most difficult part. I kept adjusting the animation here and there, but it kept wobbling on itself, so i deleted all the keys, rotated the Main biped bone, and it was completely fixed. Sometimes you have to go back to basics. The animation is a bit fast, so I'm going to cut the speed in half, render it, and post it again, fixed. Enjoy!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Simple Walk

Here is an animation I made in 30 minutes. It's a simple bipedal animation done with 3DS Max 2009's Biped Rig. I just hid the upper body, and began animating the walk cycle. This is a simple test of my skill as an animator; the first of many. I hope you enjoy it!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Almost done (WIP)

Ladies and gentlemen, here is a video of the same Grimm Reaper, with all the animations almost done :D
Any ideas/comments, please put them up so that I can make it prettier.
I'm sorry for not posting anything up for a while. The skinning of the character was acting up in some of the movements, and syncing the Scythe together with both hands was giving me troubles, but i figured it all out. I hope you all like what I have so far.

Next up, the Vampire :) Skinning is done. I will post a video up of him once I have something to show. Enjoy!


Thursday, August 28, 2008

First WIP for class

Although this isn't my first animation, it's the first one I put in here that's an actual Work in Progress. It's for a Mod we're working on for the Unreal 2004 Engine. This is the first character I created. The Grimm Reaper. In this animation "set" I have him in his Idle and Walk cycles. I will be working on him during the weekend. Hit the comments for some suggestions/constructive criticism.

Enjoy ;)




P.S. The character is not yet textured. If anyone wants me to re-render it with a clearer solid-color texture, please let me know :)

P.P.S. The mesh was created by Ben Wheeler. All the meshes I will be rigging and animating were created by Ben. His web-site is right here.

New concept!!!

Eric Valdes is helping out with some of the concept for the characters in my short film. His site is here (Eric Valdes). Hope you like what you see. The direct link to the picture is right here.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

It Begins

Continuing the process of my short film, here are some of the first drawings of the storyboard being done by my friend and concept artist, Chad Baptist.



Monday, July 21, 2008

Ornithomptor

For this next project, our teacher made a device that flies around.  The entire object, including the lighting, was of his creation.  The assignment was to make the device (called an Ornithomptor, for whatever reason), pick up a ball, and move it from one peg to the other with style.  This is my result:


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Olive-Man

This was my 2D final for last year's Introduction to 2D animation.  It is of a character I created called Olive-Man.  He will be the protagonist for my project (kinda).  Enjoy!

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Hello Everyone

My name is Isaí (for those of you who don't habla espaniol, Easy is good enough), and I am a 3D artist, striving to specialize in animation.  Right now, I am learning how to animate with 3DS Max 2008 and XSI 6.5.  Hopefully I can get my hands on 3DS 2009 to see if all the bugs got fixed, but, when it comes to Autodesk and their ability to include "useful" updates, dare to dream, as they say.

In this blog, I will be posting any and all interesting animations that I've done, giving full credit to those who have contributed, of course.

I welcome any and all suggestions and/or comments about any of my content.

In the following months, I will be working on a short film, to which I will be posting some screenshots of, and hopefully, the entire completed project.

Please enjoy the content you see here.

Isaí