3D's Max hotel fly-through complete render

In this final render I adjusted the lights - turned everything down a little - the bathroom was too sterile, now it is comfortable, I think.
Thanks for looking!

Apologies to Gareth and Steven for typo

I said Steven Grant was from Raging Pixel, but in truth he is from Animation Works, while Gareth Lockett is actually from Raging Pixel.

Of course it was a typo. A research typo...

Thanks to Gazza for pointing it - noice one, m888888888Te[*].

[*] - typo.

Wanimate Life Drawing

Location:TAFE, Aberdeen St.

WAM BAM team "Blue Reggae Love"

(L-R: Danial Watson, Ushan Boyd, Adam Harvey, Andy Ng, Bodie Hartley)
Thats right, Bobble Heads are the new wooden spoon.

Revelation Film Fest Animation Showcase

Animations shown:
"7x3", "An Insidious Intrusion", "The Lost Thing", "Petrol Can Rider", "Hog", "Cockroach", "Nest of Skeletons" and others.

Worthy of mention in a positive light is "Petrol Can Rider". Even though I didn't follow it all the way I loved the trad-animation style - pencil and paper.

"An Insidious Intrusion" and "Nest of Skeletons" were thematically linked stop-motion episodes, and followed the lives of a early-human style hunters - albeit insect sized skeletal with a hive - and wings. The sound scape was so-so, but overall the entertainment value was good. Perhaps a bit serious for such a whimsy - but thats just personal taste.

The outstanding work I thought was "The Lost Thing", "Hog" and "Cockroach". All had good story-telling, characterisations and 3D animation. "The Lost Thing" I have been very eager to see, and aside from a certain lightness to the 3D -almost floaty I thought - I loved it. "Hog" was by contrast weighty, with an entertaining if dark story, and funny. "Cockroach" was an excellent live-action/3D mix, funny and well executed.

3D's Max with Max Frankel - First fly-through incomplete render.

Flash Project - first compile - draft

Wanimates Youtube channel

Go here to see all the WAM BAM entries: http://www.youtube.com/user/wanimate#g/a

This is another 2010 FTI animation student's team's effort - Andrew Patterson: Here

More traditional animation classes please!

What I like about this picture, aside from the nice people, is the 1:1 lecturer to student ratio.

Overall the FTI course is great.

However, we have noticed that industry highly values animation principles in it's new employees.

We know it is important to know programs, but it seems that employers - when asked (re: Steven Grant) value animation know-how over program know-how. And what is the best way to drill animation know-how? The broad consensus is "Traditional animation"! Hand-drawn animation experience teaches animation principles more effectively than learning programs. . We the students have frequently asked for more traditional animation and drawing classes. I feel like at the moment, to properly learn the basic and secondary animation basics I will have to undertake my own study away from FTI. Walks, expressions, anticipation, drag and so many other things are learned by discussion and drawing practice. Learning a program's individual idiosyncrasies is not this practice. More traditional please!

Our teams result for Wanimate this year.

WAMBAM comes to closing

The teams are compiling now, most animation has been done. Adam is working hard for our team, pulling th' pieces together. It's been great so far. Very enjoyable.


Tanya, Gareth from Gate Street High and Peter from the Animation Works team.

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Location:Kendrew Crescent,Joondalup,Australia

WAMBAM 2010 has begun....

Ian and Gareth ( Lockett of Raging Pixel Productions )- WAMBAM support team (and much more).

The Caveman proposal.

The Caveman who dreams of the future.
Feedback: Pitch was good. Save the project, go for funding and do it properly.
OK!

Max Frenkel is a boss lecturer.

Thanks Max :)

Animation Works's Steven Grant gives us noobs the low-down on lip-syncing in Season 2 of Dog-Star.

40 seconds a week per animator, 6 weeks for a 25 minute episode. We were lucky enough to watch the rushes on one episode, and notice what the animators notice. I like Dogstar because it's quite quick, and Steven was saying they need to make it even quicker for an American audience. Awesome stuff!
Thanks alot, Steven, for having us into the studio.

Andrew Smailes loves his new get-up. So do we all.

We went toWest Coast College of Training in Joondalup today, as well as Raging Pixel in Mt Lawley. At TAFE, they have about $70,000 worth of motion capture gear, including facial mocap. Andrew jumped in a suit and had a play with the real-time computer simulation.

 I'm only dark because this course is putting me in fair financial debt, and if I had've known there was a cheaper way of doing it (waiting till next year) I definitely would have. Not only this, but we do not get access to use mocap or stop-motion for our projects this year, where they will next year. The WCCT will be twice the length and less than 1/2 the cost.

Nonetheless, it is even more motivation to put it behind me and get on with doing great animation.