Jumpact

Not very happy with this, except with maybe the beginning overlapping action where I can really get a sense of this weight just coming down, stretching, holding and slowly coming back up and snapping back up into the wobble up top. I kind of copped out at the 2nd over look and just did a a static hold, when I really should've taken a page from cg and gone with some type of moving hold like I had at the beginning, or maybe something Hertzfeldt and have it shakey cam.

I also toned it down a bit from last time. Used to have this exaggerated Tex Avery anticipation (is this possible?) and major jump, but after some critique it maybe was a bit much anticipation, or:

"Most animators will tell you, you never want anticipation for anticipation. If you do that, your tipping off the audience of the anticipation for your action." - Lyndon 

Yo Dawg.

Anyway, here's the final:


Midterm from Michael Barquero on Vimeo.

Overlapping Man

Being at CCA, sometimes you take for granted that most of one's animation professors are from Pixar, if not from Pixar, then Tippett or some other major company (which is totally awesome). It didn't hit me until earlier today that Daniel Gonzales, a CCA alumni who got hired at Pixar straight from school, came into to our class gave us a small assignment and gave us the opportunity to have it critiqued for whoever wanted to show up Saturday afternoon and talk about animation in general; essentially a one on one critique.

Anyway, since we were on the topic of overlapping action, he gave us this character who comes in swooping from the sky, lands and comes back a bit. Our assignment was to draw in the cape and if we wanted to, add the inbetweens wherever we thought the spacing needed it. My initial one kinda sucked a lot but got a few pointers after the critique, so, here's the result:


[note: Don't know why but vimeo cut up the bit where I added the title card: "my inbetweens". So, the first cycle is Gonzales' work, the 2nd cycle with the cape is the addition of my inbetweens.]



Untitled from Michael Barquero on Vimeo.

Almost there

Think I might use this. It's got some nice things in it. Just need to let it rest a bit, more time to think, not just Méliès type-over exaggerated-non stop movement.


Untitled from Michael Barquero on Vimeo.

Animation Scrap

Scrapped this one too, supposed to be in bound, acting, and jump off; didn't like it.


Untitled from Michael Barquero on Vimeo.

CCA Animation Midterm Begins

Yep, this is our midterm.

Basically to get everything we've learned and follow this assignment:

Have this tear drop character bounce, then come to a complete stop because he sees a hole in front of him. Watch your acting beats, what's he thinking? Then make him jump over the hole and jump off screen.

I scrapped this one because I didn't really like it. Still interesting.


Untitled from Michael Barquero on Vimeo.