Jumpstick deux

Ended up doing the whole thing over, really didn't like the previous one. We didn't end up critiquing this in class, which is alright; had a lot of fun doing it. Getting used to after effects a bit so I don't spend most of the time trying to figure out how to get what I want on screen.

Anyway, here it is:

Jumpstick_deux_machina from Michael Barquero on Vimeo.

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.

The Day Buddha Shot the Sun

This is the second animation we were supposed to make, but a crazier version. I think I went too far off; Lyndon was not amused.


Untitled from Michael Barquero on Vimeo.

Overlapping action animation

Focus was on overlapping action, talked about in class a bit on Chuck Jones, Red Hot Riding hood, some looney tunes and how even in The Incredibles we see lots of overlapping action

Assignment was to give these shapes a sense of overlapping action, that one moved, then the other and as the first one is going back the top one is just getting to that side, etc. This was also in after effects.


Untitled from Michael Barquero on Vimeo.