Omgozzle an update

Before, I figured I updated this blog too often.  So I decided to wait who knows how many months before I update a slew of more material....

Sooo, here's an update!

We got animation, animatics, life drawings!  Madness.

First up, the animation!  We were provided a model and rig and told "GO!"  This is what I came up with:

His name is Arty and he's ridiculous.

Next are some lighting exercises.  Same scene at two different times - night and day.  Can you figure out which one is which?






Next is an animatic.  Once again, as usual, I ran out of time and it was a little rushed - just 5 more seconds would have made it a little easier to follow.



I apologize for the terrible dialogue.  If I had had more time I could have included a few more lines that would have been sillier.

Lastly - here's some life drawings!

The semester is almost over - I can guarantee a new update once classes are over!

Figures y mas Figures

Here are a couple "storytelling" images.  They should sum up the entire story in a single image.  I wonder why they call them storytelling images, then??

One of these two was selected to continue on to create an animatic.  And the following should give an idea as to which one...

Get it?  Sir BOSLEY....  I thought Sir Rogaine would be too obvious?

Anyways, as the title of this post suggests....  Figures!!!!!

Here's just a few select pieces from my class so far.  Fun stuff, but I'm rusty as hell and can tell I need to "loosen up."

Fall Wrap-up

Well, it's been close to three decades since I last updated this thing and I think it's due for some love.

The fall semester is now past finished and, needless to say, once again, I learned a ton.  This time most of the learning involved softwares (Maya and Premiere).  All the animatics definitely helped me speed up my thinking, thumbing, executing process for compositions.  A successful start to the animation film world, I think!

This coming semester will be more of the same, but delving deeper into what animation requires and what effective storytelling can accomplish.

All of that and I finally get to take another figure drawing class.  Thank GOD!!!  Figure is so important to me, I'm happy to get back into that.

Anyways, I think I'll go ahead and post the last few projects of my Sophomore Fall semester.  Hopefully going forward into this semester, I will be able to keep up posting more often!

Here's my pantomime project in traditional animation.  This class probably suffered the most over the semester.  I actually think I did better work last year.  3D animation and concept class severely cut into my polish time for TA...

It's OK, but basically needs another pass, the end needs more inbetweens to slow it down, and I didn't even get to completely finish him having a celebration.



Next are my last two animatic assignments.  The first had the basic premise: a bird knocks over a pot and strikes a person after it falls.  This was my interpretation of it!



This one is the final project - everything was completely made up by myself for once.  Nothing was provided to us.



Lastly, this was our final 3D animation project, a jump, walk, turnaround sequence of a "simple" polygon character.  Needless to say, I don't ever want to see pizza again.

Unless I'm hungry and it is in front of me begging to be devoured.  That, I may make an exception for...



Well that's a wrap for the semester!

Like I said, I will try to be better at posting going forward :)

A little bit of something new

Alright update time!

I'll start off with two new animatics.  They're very basic.  We have a strict time limit of 20 seconds and the basic premise is given to us.



Frogs and tomatoes!  And grumpy old men!



Rats and pool - and loud noises, too!

Finally, here is my primitive theater assignment.  It was a lot of work, but I'm pleased with the final product next to the ball bounce, it's a good start.



Poor, poor, Reelie (that's his name).

Gorillas, Zoltar, and Balls - Oh My!!

Hello blog!

I will now post updates!

First - a gorilla! --- Walking!


Gorilla Walk from Richard Wiley on Vimeo.

Too amazing.

Next:

A ball .... bouncing!  Incredible!



bbfinal rwiley from Richard Wiley on Vimeo.

I kept it super basic as my first computer animation project - next one will be more complex.

And finally - my first attempt at an animatic.  Story was provided to us so we just did the leg work.



rwiley Zolimatic Final from Richard Wiley on Vimeo.

And that's all folks!

Hopefully I'll post more in the near future.  This year is incredibly busy.  Ridiculous!

Quadripelagal Walk Cycle

The title is a scientific term.  Look it up.

But in all seriousness, here is finally another solid update.

Below is a finished quadruped walk cycle.  Doberman was used to base the model on.

It was fuuunnnnn!


Dog Walk Real from Richard Wiley on Vimeo.

On a VERY different note...

More to come - IN.In.in.THE.The.the.FUTURE.Future.future...

France 2013

Been a while since I've posted anything - primarily because I don't think I have too much to post.  Until now.

I just got back from a 3 week trip to France - St. Colome to be exact.  I brought some watercolors and thought I'd teach myself how to use them.

Here are the results!  Left to right top to bottom = first attempts to last.

The course of work eventually found a balance between using watercolors with small touches of color pencil, white acrylic pen, and ink pen.