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bhGhost 1.10 – Arc Tracker
A small but useful update to bhGhost, the Create Tracker function allows you to quickly set up the tool to make it easier to polish arcs for a characters nose, or anything else you want to track during the polishing stage.
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As used in..
I was watching a making-of video on the new movie The Book of Life and noticed something familiar. Looks like at least one of the animators at Reel FX likes to use bhGhost 🙂
Always cool to see it out there!
Fagforbundet short film wins an award!
The short film I animated for Tilnaermet Lik has won an award, in the competition ‘The Visuelt Awards’ – in the category of Infomercials. We won Gold, you can read about it (in Norwegian) and watch the film here: http://www.grafill.no/visuelt/vinnere/2014/moving-image/informasjonsfilm/
The jury said: “We fell for the unconventional and personal twist on an infomercial, with its appealing characters and touching narrative. The clever transitions, humor and richness in style makes us want to see it over and over…”
Laban Study – featuring Blurp
A study piece I animated back in 2012 when our teacher at iAnimate taught us about applying the Laban principles of movement to our characters. I learn best by doing so I put this together to try to better understand the concepts. I’m sure I could animate it better now but I think most of them are reasonably successful in illustrating the different kinds of motion I was trying to grasp.
Turnaround animation test
I attended a masterclass with Kyle Balda (ILM, Pixar) over the weekend and he demonstrated his approach to animation which uses a layered method rather than working pose to pose. I’ve only ever used that method for walk and run cycles so I was curious to try it out with something different. A very simple test but I learned something from it that I’m sure will come in handy for more complex shots.
Female face sketch
I’m trying to get better at drawing stylized female faces so that I can make clearer animatics when planning animation. This one feels like one of my more successful attempts.
Drawn digitally in Manga Studio using a Cintiq
Jason Ryan demos bh_Ghost
A very cool video from the amazing animator Jason Ryan (iAnimate, Dreamworks, Disney etc!) where he shows some ways he has implemented my ghosting tool into his animation workflow. Many thanks to Jason for taking the time to make it.
Watch the video on the ianimate.net Facebook page here.
Musical Walks #2 – Funk
Another music-inspired walk cycle test, this time with the great Jupiter rig from iAnimate. For reference I used the 2d ‘attitude walk’ in Eric Goldberg’s book Character Animation Crash Course. Tricky to push the poses as much as the 2d version with a 3d rig but a lot of fun to try. Just to make it more of a challenge I tried to make it look at least decent from all angles rather than just one fixed view. I had some fun with the music too, a good excuse to blow the dust off my wah pedal 🙂
Lie and Holst Short Film
Lie (pronounced “Lee”) and Holst are two undercover policemen, doing drug enforcement at Oslo East End. Lie is the boss, Holst is the sidekick. They are, however, neither the sharpest tool in the shed. Here they face a somewhat indelicate problem, having to do with their policedog’s waste.
You can find a making-of video about it here: vimeo.com/66737879
Production: TNL © 2013
I was character animation lead on this piece and also did some technical supervision, tech support and story development. One of the most fun jobs I’ve had yet as the guys at TNL do great work and are really great to work for.
Hope you enjoy it!