Serenade to Miette - Screengrabs

Something for my film composer

For Phillip Wareborn's orchestra score!

Animation Midterm test

Yeah.. we had a midterm assignment in Animation class today...
So we had to pick two words, and animate a character from a model sheet.

My words were uhm... "Floppy Rage."

Production pipeline for "Serenade to Miette"

In all honesty, I'm kind of disappointed that it didn't turn out like the graphic iconic monochromatic feel I had planned out, that was seen in the animatic. So next time and next year, those are the things I will focus on. I'll apply more of that sepia - tonish feel in the final film, a long with a lot of overlaying layers of masks.

The process to the film is that all the animation is done with colerase and 4B-6B pencils, which are then scanned and colored by hand on Photoshop. Man this process really bites, but it does contain so much more raw energy than what a lot of pure digital films have. I might not use paper for my future films here since I do aim to have finished and longer films...

Sketchbook February 11 2011

Above are patricia's characters for her Sheridan portfolio.

We were trying to figure out it's poses

I really felt weird figure drawing on my sketchbook this morning

Film characters 2

Here's I guess the promotional picture for my film?
With a new goldren retriever character that plays an important role

 

Oh and here's a random animation practice! Scott Wright, my animation teacher is awesome and totally motivates me - but I swear to god that guy is up to... something.

Sketchbook update Jan 13 2011

Playing with shapes and designs, especially in the random car thumbnails.

Now that the break is over, I really need to push things...!

Animation - Small Tests + Finding a language

Here are some animation tests from project DF.

In character design, I sat stayed around after class with my classmate Leon, who was showing his film character designs to Rik Maki. I was listening to the conversation, and I remember hearing Rik Maki telling Leon to find a language that works for him, and possibly him alone. Find a language of your own in drawing...
Scott Wright, my animation teacher did mention the same thing when it came down to animating characters, where he gave examples of how other people he worked with animated, such as some would draw the contour straight on, some with the exact construction of how the model sheet shows, and some just started all the way back to primitive shapes.

So yeah, I need to have MORE structure in my work.

So I did some animation tests of my own to find a language that kinda worked for me, which was in order
1. Animate the wild gestures
2. Animate basic shapes such as spheres, boxes
3. Go back to each frame and add more complex shapes
4. Go back to each frame and animate smaller details such as eyes, mouth, hair, etc.

Background for Jimmy

Starting to color backgrounds for that Jimmy animatic I did a while back.
Also, here are some drawings from good the old Serpent's concept.

Speed paint practices

Here's a speed paint I did a while back and forgot to upload.
I've been practicing in become a lot more diverse in colors, and experimenting with the idea of choosing and blending earthy with none earthy colors to make things feel more natural and alive... I dunno, hah.

Visual Development... or speedpaint, concept, I sometimes lose track of the difference because the way I approach these things is mostly the same So all in all, they feel alike to me.

Various Walk Cycles

Tyrannosaurus Rex Walk Cycle from Toniko Pantoja on Vimeo.



Miette Walk Cycle from Toniko Pantoja on Vimeo.

Coming soon:A red cat with a green bag

The concept art to my part in this collaboration.

Basically here at Calarts, the 1st year seems to developing a collaborated animation, where each student animates their part with the character, and tries to match it with the next animation.

I was given the number 2 in class.

Cats n Horses

For Rik Maki's class, we submitted cats and horses for our second to last assignment.

So in summary, I guess the best parts he liked were the expression of the horses, and the female cats - and he said that the anatomy for the horses need to be defined more, and some parts shortened. It's all good

Cat thumbnails

It seems that my teacher wants cats and horses for our next assignments. Did thumbnails in class for the cats...

Cats can hiccup and fart at the same time.