Anima Mundi Festival- Workshop with Mark Walsh - Pixar Animation Studios

Last week we had in Rio de Janeiro the 15º edition of the Anima Mundi Festival. And during the event, we had a workshop with one of the guests. His name is Mark Walsh. He's a supervising animator of Pixar Animation Studios. He worked in many films, such as "A Bug's Life"(animator), "Toy Story 2"(animator), "The Incredibles"(animator), "Monster Inc."(character developer), "Finding Nemo"(directing animator), and the most recently "Ratatouille"(supervising animator). Oh God, I loved the last one! It's the best!

Although we had only 3 days, I think the whole class learned a lot, 'cause in my opinion Mark showed us different points of view in animation. I mean, based on Pixar way of work. I figure out that acting is the most important thing in animation. The personality of the character define how he moves, think and react in fact of different situations. You use the principles of animation as a support of the acting. Well, it's a very complex subject. Work with "thoughts" isn't a easy thing. We must thanks a lot to Mark for his attention, patience, and efforts to teach us in a short period of time. He's a very nice guy. THANK YOU!!!

Well, now take a look at some pictures. I met up with some old friends again, made new ones, and we had much much fun. All pictures are from André Forni. He's a animator from São Paulo.

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Character Animation - 3D Pterosaur

Hi guys,

I've been posting here illustrations and 2d animations, but, where is the 3d animations?!? So here it is! A 3d Pterosaur(cartoon), that I animated for a Rede Globo TV show (intro), called "Clara e o Chuveiro do Tempo"(Director: Marcio Trigo)in december,2005. I did only the character animation part. In this project we used two 3d softwares. 3ds max and LightWave. Marcos Piolla modeled in LW and Alexandre Areal(Thundro)used 3ds max for modeling and rigging. Igor Lementy did the shadding(3ds max too).

It's very late... I'm almost sleeping on my keyboard... lol... bye bye

4 Eye Creature

Hey hey!

This one is from my digital sketch book. I used a wacom Cintiq (http://www.wacom.com/) and Mirage program for sketch the creature. Then I painted in Photoshop. I wasted 5 hours in this picture.

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Cowboy Walk Cycle - Animation

It's a very hot day but not for this cowboy. He's coming back to town. He's angry but focused on his target. He's hunting someone. He wants revenge. There's nobody on the streets. A huge duel is coming up. Who's gonna shoot first?!? Uhm, I can't wait for the next chapter of "Wild Bloody Western"! LOL. Ok, I'm kidding!!! LOL. I didn't animated a western series. It's just a animation test. Recently, I've been studding After Effects a lot. So the walk cycle is the smaller part of the test 'cause the hard work had done in the composition program. Masks, masks and more masks. lol. Color adjustments, blur, levels, warp and so on. The background is a mix between paint and 3d stuff. The sun, clouds, sky and floor were painted but the houses were modeled in 3ds max. I used the "Ink paint" material of 3ds max to make this draw look. I did the 2d walk cycle in Mirage Program with my tablet. Well, for a test, it's not too bad!

Bunny - cartoon illustration

Hi everybody,

I've been very busy since last month, but I promise to update this blog more times. The today's post is a cartoon illustration. It's my "funny" bunny!LOL... I used the Mirage (program) to sketch, and Illustrator CS2 to trace(vector) and paint. I liked it so much that I decided to animate this as soon as possible. I'm still doing the cleanup of the TMNT and finishing a cowboy walk cycle.

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A bird and a couple - ANIMATION

I did these animations to be reproduced in an enormous screen of the tv show set called "Estação Globo"(REDE GLOBO). The final animation had been composed with other elements in the After Effects. For example background, particles, and illustrations. I did not make the composition, only the animation.

It was completed in about 2 days in Mirage. The bird's cleanup was the most difficult part to do 'cause it was painted with many colors. The couple was animated in the "straight ahead" way. Both have 12 fps(frames per second). I'd like to have more time to do my work, but I don't have it. So, I always try to do my best in a short deadline.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rough animation

My friends ask me "why don't you post your animations here?!" Ok guys, no more excuses! The today's post is an animation!!!LOL!

This is a rough animation(pencil test) I've been doing in my spare time. Recently I saw the new trailer of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie(3d), and just thought:"Oh, I always liked the TMNT! I used to draw them when I was a kid, and now I'm a animator. Yes, I must make a animation!!!" And I did!!! Lol!

Well... I started animating Rafael, but I couldn't resist and I put all the team together in the scene. As you can see, they're jumping over the roof of the buildings(classic). The next stage is the cleanup(final trace) and colorize(characters and backgrounds). The animation is 100% digital. I use a program called Mirage from Bauhaus Software for 2d animation. This program is a mix between Painter and After Effects. It's great!!!

It's the last post of the year!!! SO... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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