"Urban Vermin" Opening Credits

"Urban Vermin" Debut Tomorrow

Urban Vermin makes its debut on YTV tomorrow .
I did not work on tomorrow's episode (i started ep.03 onwards). Click on the logo above to see a clip!:-)

My Character Animation Demo Reel Aug'06

So...all these years of hard work, all nighters,stress etc etc and all i have to show for it is this 2 min video clip!?!?
Just seems SOO wrong! lol
Anyws...here is my demo reel that i put togetehr in the last few days, this one is geared to show what i have done in a capacity of an animator(2d&3d) and animation director and story/character devpt. stuff that i have done.

"Blvd.Efil"Premier Today

Finally, its done!!!

It will be screened today at the Sheridan College Auditorium. Looking forward to seeing for the first time with an audience.
I know most of u are not local...but for whatevr its worth, woudl have loved to have u in the audience!
Here are some images of the look that i was experimenting with in the last few days...but i finally ended up taking it in a totally different direction(as per the Main Title).

"Blvd.Efil"Scene 11 Rough Animation

YAY! I just warapped the animation last night! 10 days to go and have to come up with the look , enviorment, lighting, rendering etc etc!
This is the rough animation for the last scene i just finished...the camera is temp..not the final angles and moves.

"Blvd.Efil"Scene 07 Rough Animation

To Touch or NOT To Touch....THAT..is the question!!
:-)

LAst 13 days..nearly done!!:-)

p.s The ribbon is hand animated not a Dynamic simulation or whatevr...and i guess it goes without saying, that by the end of this film i HATE ribbons!!

"Blvd.Efil"Scene 01 Blocking

Finally...have some work to show...been working on the modeling,rigging,weighing etc etc....
All that is still an ongoing process but have started animating before i fall a bit too behind.
So here is teh Opening SHot with teh credits and we see the man walking carefree as he whistles a tune when suddenly he hears something and looks around and cut!
Its just blocked in temp animation...i havnt even rigged the face and stuff yet...but it jhad just been way to long since i posted any new work!

"Moments" Scene 15

Currently busy working away on finshing my model and rigging my main character from "Blvd.Efil".That also happens to be the most challenging stage for me in this CG animation pipeline.Hopefully will have somehting to share from it real soon.

Till then here is a rough composite of a scene from "Moments" without shadows,CC etc etc....have to finish this soon too!! geez..so much to do!

BUT...none the less am gonna make it to the theatres to see CARS today!....rest assured,will post my 2 cents after!
:-)

"Moments" Scene 74

Rough animation line test for this farewell seen where the little girl gets a gift from the old man.This scene was one hell of a long scene and hats off to Yogesh and Nilesh who worked on it and coloured (and re-coloured) every frame by hand with pastels!!!

"Moments" Scene 10

This is my rough line test for a new scene and it hooks up to another new scene, Scene 9 (posted earlier).
It's after the girl's doll has been knocked over by a man who is in a hurry to catch a bus.
The Girl gives him a displeased look for a short bit and then picks up her doll.

Horse In Watercolours

Though its not very new, i still remember it being lots of fun doing this quick life drawing with watercolours! Should do it more often!

Lip Sync Assignment

Just finished a Lip Sync assignment with Fred (Supplied Model).
Experimenting with different textures and shaders and stuff...

....and YES,thats Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector!

(unfortunately u dont see much of the acting in the eyes & stuff in this low res version and also the audio is a bit off after compression on YouTube it seems):-(

Nostalgic Fun: The Flour Sac & The Puddle

I was going through my Gigs & Gigs of data when i found some of my my pre-historic animation.
It was quite funny to see it all. Thought i 'd post a few even though they are very crude and old.

This particular one was my very first go at personality animation in my first year of college.
It had to be a flour sac interacting with a prop whos name i pulled out randomly from a hat.
I remember getting a "Mirror" first...but then i gave that up for a shot at pulling out some other more "Interetsing" prop, to only pull out a "Puddle", which had more or less similar possibilities as a "Mirror" but just add to it the fun of figuring out how to animate water if u wanna show some interaction! Joy!
Should have stuck with the damn "Mirror"!

"Blvd.Efil" Story Reel

..the timing needs to better...for things to register and all....i just had to get it done..didt it all 3 days man! it was hell....will work it all out at the kinks and more in the animation stage!
here it is anyways!

Same Central "Prop", Different Central "Plot"

So those who have been following my blog...proabably know how i had story crisis and had to trash my original film idea (of which i had posted some boards here too) cause it was too technically ambitious in the given time frame.
So I was REALLY pressed for time...so in a rush i came up with this another simple story ( Not the most amazing idea i have ever though of for sure) and put together the boards and a story reel with temp. audo in RECORD time, even for me! lol

So this guy here..is our new star..the story is totally differnet form the earlier story..though the main prop ( A Red Box) still survives in this one too...i dont have a name for this film yet ..its proabbly gonna be somehting like "Temptation On Boulevard Efil" or just "Blvd. Efil" i dunno...am open to suggetsions..after i have posted the rough story reel,i would be more than glad to have suggestions from u guys about the title too.
BTW..Efil is "Life" spelt backwards...ist not menat to be very obvious...u will see...
For now here are a few panels from it...and yes,still trying to use a stylus to draw on the comp!

Tony Sees The Light!

Whats Tony upto now??
Tony visits an Art Gallery and sees the light.
or
Tony Turn & Walk Assignment:-)
If nothing else, am really begining to enjoy the endless possibilities in term sof rendering and texturing and lighting....it was cool to have this comic book kinda look ...and it was all a simple lighting arrangement...its funny where everyone is trying to make it look more real and 3d, i am the nut trying ways to flatten everything! oh well...old habbits die hard! i LOOOVE 2d!

"Left Out" Yet Another WIP Version (with Audio)

Okkkk...getting there....the 2d texture animation is yet to come for the facial expressions...some tweakings with the texture and i forgot to render the text saying "Don't Go Away"revealed on the wall as the Big Doll exits!
So all that in the next & final (hopefully) version! :-)

My "Tony" Jump!

Meet Tony...get used to him...u will be seeing a lot of him...he is the Rig we use for our human animation exercises...so...this is my first excercise with him...A jump...and this also the first time i really understood the technical process of texturing and lighting ...or atelast begining to!
His arms were such a pain to animate...i really missed my pencil/paper!

"Left Out"- Work In Progress Animation

NEARLY DONNNNNNNNNNE! As u can see the textures are swimming all over the place...so have to figure that out and then i have to figure out how to ANIMATE the textures( facial expressions)so things read better...and then just tweak the animation a bit more and texture the Backgroundand light it and render it and put Sound etc etc ..phew!
Like i said "NEARLY" Done!:-)
It turned out a bit longer than the story reel , but i will proabably able to get it down to 10 sec once its all done!
I always put up rough 2d animation..so why not 3d too? yeah...i know its not the same..but still!:-)


(Those who dont know what this is all about, u can see the Story Reel here!)

"MOMENTS" Temp Composite of Sc. 14

Its missing effects layers,colour correction and some size relationship issues...but here it is anyws, an updated verision of Sc 14 who's line test i posted last week!