An Action Animator

G37 and Evo 8 @ Rabbit

2008-10-03T12:28:00.001-07:00

More desert drifting. Better editing IMO. I at least got some variety in the shots.

G37 Free Again (El Mirage Dry Lake Bed)

2008-09-03T10:24:00.001-07:00

Labor Day Monday 2008. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Reckless G37 in Palm Desert

2008-02-06T09:39:00.000-08:00

Not really reckless... More of a freak accident. My car 's door was blown wide open by some kinda ungodly 60mph+ gust of wind. Now it doesn't align properly when I close it. Ahh, well... it'll get fixed. Fun video to make.

DIY 4 eva
-James

iMoved

2007-11-07T11:21:00.000-08:00

Haven't posted anything recently 'cause I've been spending all my energy moving. This is a snapshot of an interesting moment. I'll get back to animating that idle soon... I left it off at a very ugly phase of it's life.

-James

Cut it out!

2007-10-13T15:36:00.001-07:00

Click on this one. It moves. I finally learned how to animate translation, scale, rotation, and skew in TBS. I think it's cool that it moves. I crashed a couple of times trying to get this done, so it took longer to finish than I thought. I'm personally not the biggest fan of this cutout style of animation. Big BUT... it helps me animate in a way that's familiar... utilizing computer tweening. I'm gonna use this to help me figure out the motion, but then I'll probably pop a layer on top and redraw every frame using this as a guide.

-James

Edie

2007-10-06T04:30:00.000-07:00

Been listening to the Cult's Edie (Ciao Baby)... it's an offshoot off of the whole Def Leppard fascination thing. Did some research on the song and found out about Edie Sedgewick, Andy Warhol's muse. So, I decided to do an Edie sketch and lay it out all pop art Warhol style. I guess I didn't really mess with colors enough... oh well.

Select Screen

2007-10-05T11:17:00.001-07:00

So... I figure this is the picture you'd see when you select the character. Took reference for the glasses... the head doesn't exactly match the angle of the shades... oh well. Work in progress.

crashed!

2007-10-05T11:14:00.000-07:00

I decided to work on his face to try to "unravel the mystery." But then it crashed and I didn't even save once. So I took a picture of the screen... Oh well.

STUPID!

2007-10-03T15:19:00.000-07:00

30 is stupid. After a lot of thought, I've concluded that being 30 is really uncool... really uncool... that's all I have to say.

edit: more to say... Def Leppard makes everything ok. Ama have a very Def Leppard birthday.

-James

Poser

2007-09-27T17:54:00.001-07:00

I made this before I ever started the blog. It's to help me visualize the character... fill in the gaps when he's in 2d profile isometric mode.

Tweaks

2007-09-27T15:25:00.001-07:00

some more tweaks... some more colors.

More color tones

2007-09-26T11:38:00.000-07:00

A little more work on him.

Up-rezzed The Uprez

2007-09-25T11:52:00.001-07:00

I worked on the gloves mostly, and added color. I did an experiment using vectorized video to create the color banding in the pants... I'll eventually just use it as a guide. I think I'm gonna stick with 4 tones. That might be a little heavy... but it's more than ggx, less than 3rd strike. I dunno, we'll see.

-James

Up-rezzing the Idle.

2007-09-24T16:27:00.000-07:00

Actually, the resolution's the same... I'm just adding more detail. Hopefully I can keep it looking like this throughout the whole idle.

Vectorizing video

2007-09-24T16:23:00.000-07:00

Playing with thresholds with moving video. This is the reference for the standing forward kick I first posted.

TIGER KNEE!!!

2007-09-24T16:17:00.000-07:00

So, I drew over one of Dave's video. The video was really a standing close forward... like Ken would do, but Dave wanted it to be a special move, so we made it into a Tiger Knee.

-James

More roto action

2007-09-24T16:10:00.000-07:00

I was showing my buddy, Dave the process. I set everything up in Toon Boom, then I let him do the drawing. Roto'd from a video we just took... Dave's very flexible.

-James

anime mouth

2007-09-24T15:55:00.001-07:00

Did a test on the mouth, trying to emulate tv anime style. Looks dead. Seems like I need to do a slow pan or push, and maybe animate some other parts of her. Audio would help too... and story, and character development... and color... and some lens flares.

DAVID GUETTA - LOVE IS GONE

2007-09-24T14:55:00.001-07:00

Here's the video she came from.

Vectorize

2007-09-24T14:37:00.001-07:00

I made a desktop image from a frame of a music video. David Guetta's "Love is Gone"

I just imported the same image over and over again... I vectorized the images at different thresholds and colored them different colors.

-James

ps. It's 1920 x 1080 for all you HD heads.

edit: Boo, I guess the largest image I can post is 1600 x 900

profile pic

2007-09-24T00:48:00.001-07:00

I guess I gotta post a pic in my blog to link it to my profile. Messing around with vectorizing images. I like the color banding effect. Maybe I can get it to autoroto video this way.

I've arrived

2007-09-22T14:05:00.001-07:00

I just got smart enough to find a way to post stuff on the web। I'm here, now. I'll post some of the little wierd artistic projects that I'm working on. Y'all can comment... If I can get that feature to work.

edit:
I've added a kick I roto'd.

-James