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!



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:




13 January 2013

The End begins

Class 6! The end is near.
So I couldn't be more motivated right now. Week 1 and 2 are goners, and I think I've never had such a busy start of the term! My mentor is Sean Sexton (DreamWorks) and he's awesome! If animation was football, he would play for Barcelona or Real Madrid. In his critiques, he's awfully honest, which is exactly what I wished for class 6.
So the goal of this class is to put together our work, spice it up with one or two new shots, mix it all up and come out with the best showreel we can. My mission for the week was to improve "The King" shot, and start thinking on ideas for what Imma gonna do next! I've also built a new whole scenario for the King. Check it all out below. Ciao!

10 December 2012

Class 5: 90% done!

Finally, a new update!
I'm sorry tokeep you in the dark for so long, but I thought it was a bit pointless to post weekly updates on this assignments. If I did that every week this term, there would be 12 weeks of 'invisible' changes to the untrained human eye. So, this is how far I got with this shot on this class, will have to finish it during the break and during next, sadly. Work got in the way! I can't show you any of the work I've been doing there just yet, i will as soon as I can, but I'll leave you with a "Making Of" of one of their most successful commercials, which was a hit here in Portugal. Ciao!