That's it folks, it is over! I will miss all of my classmates and mentors, specially the last two, Arslan and Sean, the ones I've learned the most from and helped me taking my animation skills a step further. I'm not at the skill level I want yet tho - neither is my reel. For the next weeks/couple of months I will be improving it as much as I can - and Sean told me to do a new shot or two, which I will do!
I'm starting to prepare for my next journey, the professional world. I've prepared my website, although the reel is not final, and my resume is not done yet. Check it out!
www.fonzoromano.com
22 March 2013
26 February 2013
Class 6: Multi-shot update, the VFX Industry and Afonso Salcedo
Hey peeps!
So sorry for not updating for the last couple of weeks, but I just thought the progress wasn't enough for a new blog post. Better make a juicy one like this week's! The King is 99% finished animationwise, although there are some things needing to be fixed. The scenario's size is wrong (technical mistake of mine), among others. The poker dancer is dancing again, but now there's no table anymore (as my mentor didn't quite like that idea) and the hip/feet are improved in order to give more weight to it. And, for the Rat rat shot, everything is on wheels, still o long way unfortunately!
VFX Industry - I don't know if you peeps are aware of what happened in the Oscars and with R&H's bankruptcy and DreamWorks' layoffs. I don't want to be to political here, but I just want to say that I support all the VFX artist in struggle and I'm sure wheels got moving and the industry will be a better place for all of us in a few years. It's time we are acknowledged as artists and not technicians. Green Screen power! :)
And to end up, I'd like to share the pleasure of attending my first real high-end VFX live talk, with Afonso Salcedo (Pixar, DreamWorks) the most successful Portuguese VFX artist! His talk was very interesting and mostly inspiring. He analyzed some shots from the coolest movies, such as Up, Toy Story 3, Ratatouille, Wall-e, La Luna, etc. It was a shame that he had only an hour of stage time, but the Q&A session that followed was rad. Met some cool people and got to see again some old ones!
Afonso is now building his own studio, check it out here! Sutro Studios LLC
That is all! Don't try this at home, kids!
Oh and by the way, meet the new family member, Bolt. This is when he first saw me (I was in Barcelona).
VFX Industry - I don't know if you peeps are aware of what happened in the Oscars and with R&H's bankruptcy and DreamWorks' layoffs. I don't want to be to political here, but I just want to say that I support all the VFX artist in struggle and I'm sure wheels got moving and the industry will be a better place for all of us in a few years. It's time we are acknowledged as artists and not technicians. Green Screen power! :)
And to end up, I'd like to share the pleasure of attending my first real high-end VFX live talk, with Afonso Salcedo (Pixar, DreamWorks) the most successful Portuguese VFX artist! His talk was very interesting and mostly inspiring. He analyzed some shots from the coolest movies, such as Up, Toy Story 3, Ratatouille, Wall-e, La Luna, etc. It was a shame that he had only an hour of stage time, but the Q&A session that followed was rad. Met some cool people and got to see again some old ones!
Afonso is now building his own studio, check it out here! Sutro Studios LLC
That is all! Don't try this at home, kids!
Oh and by the way, meet the new family member, Bolt. This is when he first saw me (I was in Barcelona).
03 February 2013
Class 6: Rat Rat!
The creators of "The King", "Bad Luck", "Phantom Dance" etc, bring you "Rat Rat", the new shot starring Guido the mobster and his crime mastermind Lorenzo, godfather of the NY Mafia family.
So, the shot started. It's still early and it doesn't look great, but it will get there. My goal is to make my better shot to date! You know, the shot that gets me jobs. So I'm working on 300% on it! Also, The King has 'suffered' a couple of modifications, and the aspect ratio has changed. Now, it looks from a movie, not from a YouTube crappy video! It's finally over... NOT! Next week, we'll add motion blur, requested by my mentor :) But the animation is final. Enjoy!
So, the shot started. It's still early and it doesn't look great, but it will get there. My goal is to make my better shot to date! You know, the shot that gets me jobs. So I'm working on 300% on it! Also, The King has 'suffered' a couple of modifications, and the aspect ratio has changed. Now, it looks from a movie, not from a YouTube crappy video! It's finally over... NOT! Next week, we'll add motion blur, requested by my mentor :) But the animation is final. Enjoy!
20 January 2013
Class 6: The End continues
Hey mom and couple of other random blog readers! (I joke, I have hundreds and hundreds of loyal followers).
My mentor, Sean, picked up line n3 from last week! Which means I'll be doing a Italian Gangster shot for the next few weeks. Thank you Marcello Alvarez, friend and AM alumni, for helping me shooting videoref for it!
After making a rough layout for that, it was time to pimp up the King shot with some more adjustments and make it all fancy and pretty with the render. It might not be final yet, but it has never been any closer!
AND (busy week, had to take some breakfasts for champions this week) I still made the first adjustments on the "Bad Luck" shot, and started to do the missing part. I'll keep the video of that a secret until next week, I think there's not enough new stuff in there worth an upload! Ironically, that's the shot I wrote more for in the blog. Stupid Fonz!
Here it goes, all together:
My mentor, Sean, picked up line n3 from last week! Which means I'll be doing a Italian Gangster shot for the next few weeks. Thank you Marcello Alvarez, friend and AM alumni, for helping me shooting videoref for it!
After making a rough layout for that, it was time to pimp up the King shot with some more adjustments and make it all fancy and pretty with the render. It might not be final yet, but it has never been any closer!
AND (busy week, had to take some breakfasts for champions this week) I still made the first adjustments on the "Bad Luck" shot, and started to do the missing part. I'll keep the video of that a secret until next week, I think there's not enough new stuff in there worth an upload! Ironically, that's the shot I wrote more for in the blog. Stupid Fonz!
Here it goes, all together:
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