oh this cool site with info and stuff

I found this awesome website ....it contains tons of notes that this guy named Jason Smith has collected from various working animators.....very informative stuff..... my favorites so far being a glimpse into Jeff Gabor's workflow and a a video from someone who I can't think of right now, where he explains how he brainstorms for animation using a technique called mindmapping. Anyways there is a ton of great stuff like a reposting of Brandon Body's in depth analysis of birds in flight and their body mechanics.....I want to be that good one day....nuff said.

http://animationhelper.blogspot.com/

Tangled - Trailer 2 (Official)

Epic Mickey Wii trailer - return of Oswald the rabbit!

what have I done

well....Ive been away for quite some time huh? It feels as though I'd lost touch with what was most important thanks to my all too favorite disease. Anywho pretty soon I'll have some new meds and hopefully be back to the old productive me...I have been drawing and animating but I can't help that something is holding me back. Anyways today, my blog will take a turn for a better and I will make it a point to post something new everyday so that I can get back to old me....kind of like a nice rehabilitation of art. So grab all of your friends, hide the kids...this is a declaration of war on my bipolar anti-art bla bla!!

oh and I wanted to post some other things that I found inspirational as well....maybe you guys who read this will too

its not that im lazy, i just take on too much and lose it haha

so um, these were pretty experimental....im not sure what i was doing with them...i just figured id try something...hooray!!!

sometimes I wonder about me

well after some careful deliberation I ve decided to post this tomy blog...... I really need to figure out what's going on in my head. It feels like self consciousness issues but I'm not sure. I look at this one minute and I do feel somewhat proud of what I could do on my first blue pencil, but at the same time I feel helpless watching my classmates pass me by skill-wise. All I can ever think about is becoming a better artist, but I feel as though there is something that's holding me back. I'm not sure maybe in a sense, I'm not trying hard enough which would be strange. Anyways enough babling, I'm off to do some more work on something and not be so stressed hehe.

return from a long Hiatus

Sooo...its been awhile....a loooooong while....but Ive decided to follow the rest and post some of the stuff Ive been doing. Two of the images are my 'unfinished' Digital form final. I say unfinished because the files were two big to render at the end of class, though I did get a b for my efforts. I did some ambient occlusion passes on the files though, which i seem to love for some reason, and here we are. I have to say looking back at them they arent all that bad, but I wish I had the cobblestone street there , so you guys will have to imagine. Also try to imagine the lights on the spaceship because they are there lol. As for the gun, that was alittle project today to keep me modeling some stuff. Right now Im trying to lock down a character to hold it, as I m trying to think about my senior final, but not so much that I get distracted from the 'big picture'. But yea its a pretty cool gun I think though it could be a better render but I just love ambient occlusion so much lol.. So hopefully I'll keep posting regularly and I can stay busy working on projects the summer. Anyways Ciao all!