Godzilla

This past weekend I did a Flash/AfterEffects animation
for a friend. My animation is going to be projected on the screen of the Tv that kids are watching. The the image on the TV is then going to go out, and the short film is going to start.


Alright, I like the way Flash draws, but I prefer the way After Effects parents layers togerther. I also like the fact that you can scrub and see how things move not having to worry about creating a preview because one has a movie within movie, like in Flash . I could be wrong, so if I am, please corect me.

Here are the rought audio cuts as well as the whole Flash/AE animation uncut.

The film noice effect is only meant for the Godzilla sequence, all to be added in post later. But I added it show you.

Click on the words:

CUT

UNCUT




I am working on a bunch of junk, plus the film.

Oh, I just started the screenplay :) for my movie.
Hopefully I will be done in a year.

EL SALVADOR- Golden Camaleon

I either been busy or lazy take your pick :)

I have had the permission to publish this for a while, but I was waiting for the release of the animated shorts so I could just post all the El Salvador work, but alas that has not happened so I now give you the Golden commercial. If you are my friend you probably already seen this, but here is an oncore.

Here is the link to the comapny that made it.

http://www.dpixelfactory.com/

Here is my link to the video (requires quicktime and a little wait only 2 megs)

http://www.antelmostudio.com/tc/golden_camaleon.mov

Here are some screenshots.

Opening Shot

Eye Change

Body change.

Thanks for the good times.

Figure Drawing

Can't tell you how long it has been, but I think a war started and ended since last I sat to draw from the model.

Here are the Scretches that came from last weeks drawing session. I just took picture of them, to lazy to scan.


2 min

5 min
Mistakes are there, I write on my drawings to remember :)


10 min
Oh, I remember the days I use to have a polish drawing in ten minutes, hopefully soon again.

I am looking into the Glenn Vilppu manual.
http://www.vilppustudio.com/
He is an amazing draftsman, should have take more classes with him in california.

How does one get to Blue Sky?

I took a plane, but it was mostly luck.

The events that lead to it are as fallow. I will start from July because that is when I last posted.

July-Finished work as a Character Finaller in Barnyard the movie and then needing a break from it all and some R&R, I decited to help a friend produce a reality base TV series.

August-September- Produced and Coordinated "Abroad" a show about the travel http://www.fantailtv.com/home/ which lead me to Paris and Die, France. Then I took ten days to roam Italy, it was amazing.

I got back home on October 2nd and proceded to work on my reel http://www.antelmostudio.com/greetings/reel.mov (it does not stream in IE Use Mozilla or wait like a min to load) . At the end of the month I got a phone call from a friend (Rafael Arce) in El Salvador who needed help with a huge project, so I left on Nov 7 to El Salvador.

As I was leaving I sent out my only reel to Blue Sky Studios here in NY.

November-December- I was a generalist for his company in El Salvador, D' Pixel Factory http://www.dpixelfactory.com/ in which we produced three 1 minute shorts, and one 30 sec spot during my stay there. I stayed at my friend's family's house and his family treated me like their own. I am going back for a wedding on next month.

As I was there I got interviewed by Blue Sky ( a friend of mine who works there put in a good word for me) and eventually the company offered me a job. ( I owe him big time)

So I landed in Cali on Jan 10th and by the 16th I was in NY working :)

I will post the work from El Salvador this weekend. But as you wait for that try http://bsschallenge.blogspot.com/ a weekly drawing challenge from the guys at work. I posted last week and working on the one for this week. It looks a bit archaic but it was my first drawind on a waccom tablet. Boy do I miss paper and pen.

Thanks for all the support and prayers. I am blessed by God with my friends.

Picture Perfect

The past week, I attended many social events, therefore, I took a lot of pictures.

I had a good camera but because I was using the built in flash and everyone was sweating I got a lot skin glare.

I found a good to tutorial to remove it so I tought I would share.

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials/harris13.html

I am not to happy with their end result because they make the portrait look flat. But I found that you can change the opacity to 50 on the brush and make it look better. The idea is to leave a little highlight to keep the natural glow.

Before

After

I also played with the curves.

If you are going to do color correction, make sure you have a good CRT monitor, LCDS tend to be bad at color managing. But either way make sure you calibrate your monitor.

Drawings from the street

I have been stuck in my room for 90% of this week going over endless amounts of tutorials, and although I should be animating for the reel, I love the process of leaning something new.

Here are a few sketches from the free world.

I was grabbing lunch, and I had a pad.
Which was given to me by a friend. Thank you Melissa :)

The Illustration

I made this sketch about a year ago when I was working on the book.

Nature facinates me and a child dancing in the middle of a grassy field, enjoying the quite time, is as close to nature one can be.

This is what the first sketch looked like,

and it was about that size.

Then I scaned the drawing and put it into painter and re-sketched the layout.

After that, I made the character to model, and added foreground elements for Dynamics. Making sure not to lose the little girl as the main focus.

After that, I added the midground color.

Then Foreground

Lastly I painted the character and the foreground grass.

I always wanted it to be a peaceful moment but all the foreground leaves started to look menacing, so I removed the big right leaf and blurred the closest ones to us.

This is with what I ended.