Third Year Film

Overcast [Sheridan Third Year Film 2015] from Carly Dziob on Vimeo.


Finally!

Here's my third year group film!

It was super fun, and we were one of the few groups who essentially went through the whole year without any inter-personal issues.

For those interested in what I animated, the most notable shots would be the opening shot of the rabbit, the two kids looking at the clouds as the camera rotates, the squid exploding the train, the robot deflecting lighting, and the main clouds blowing away all the dark clouds (lets try to not get into the intricacies and politics of the cloud world and why certain clouds are sentient and others aren't). I wish I was able to animate more, but I was also the head of animation for the project, and so my time was largely spent assisting others.


I was mostly found animating on this film, but my biggest responsibility outside of that was cloud character design. Below you'll find some of the vis dev and character design I was responsible for.

Action Analysis

Action Analysis from Omar Elhindi on Vimeo.

This is my third year action analysis. I really don't have anything else to say to make this make any sense. All I will say is that the screams are from a goat.

Flipbook Straight Ahead Animation

Just a quick straight ahead in flipbook I did. I really do want to do another hand drawn test soon, although this little test in flipbook reminded me of how tough drawn animation is.

After watching that, here's something that actually can entertain you:


Rune Bennicke straight ahead animation - incredible.

Flash Ninja

I wanted to try and get back into Flash, so I churned out this happy Ninja walk.

Happy Fathers Day!!

Happy Fathers Day dad!
And in honor of this special day, I'll post something I've been working on.

Here's the flipbook pass.


Hopefully the finished version will be up soon.

Anime Test

I remember seeing someone do this on another blog, although I forget which.

The concept is to have a held frame, anticipation, 1 or 2 frame smear, actions on 4's, 1 or 2 frame smear and land.
It's fairly Anime like timing.
Pretty fun to try.

50th Post!

For my 50th post, I thought it would be only fitting to post a tiny ninja.

Jump Shot

Here's what came out of a bit of random animating in flipbook.
I guess the idea of a jump shot just slowly climbed into my head and voila... a jump shot. Albeit I think i should have treated it more like an actual test instead of just a quick bit of fun.
Theirs so many pops and lack of proper physicality, not to mention all the jitter's due to lack of proper attention.



Oh well, it was fun and only took me a little over an hour.

11 Second Club - December

I'm pretty sure that i'll be submitting a final entry to the December competition.
This audio clip was something I couldn't pass up.

OK Here's my flipbook pass.
Now this is a new approach i'm testing out, it involves doing a rough pass of animation in flipbook. The key is to not get attached to any drawing, this is done by only using rough drawings. I'm not gonna be hesitant to delete a 6 second stick man.
So instead of getting beautiful drawings, your focusing on your characters acting and performance.

This approach was one i took from Dreamworks Supervising Animator, Jason Ryan.

Anyway here's my rough.


Overall, i'm pretty satisfied with the performance. I think that I really avoided cliche's and went with originality in my acting. But that's just me, you could think it sucks worse than anything you've ever seen.

Lip Sync Number Two

So I really liked the audio for this month's 11 Second Club contest.

I decided that I would animate the lip sync first because i need the practice.
Normally in animation you would animate the body movements and then add the lip sync to make what should already be good, better.

This way I get my lip sync practice, and already have the lip sync plotted out for me if I decide to enter the contest.




Overall I'm pretty happy with this.. the older man's sync seems to be off at times, but I'm sure in time I'll get better.

So I Lied...

Well my dad bought the Jason Ryan Webinar set for me.
He's been an animator for a while and has worked for Disney, Bluth, and currently Dreamworks on Shrek 4.

The Webinars are basically 2 hour long tutorial's that come in purchases of 12.
Ive been going through them and saw that their was a really interesting one on Lip Sync, which I clearly have an issue with.
So I guess hand drawn will have to wait for a bit.


Above is the Flipbook version. I can quickly put in mouth shapes and see how it works together in motion.


And here is the 3D version. I import all the stills of the previous test into my 3D application and use it as a guideline.

Jason Ryan's really helped I think. Even with this single test I can tell I'm improving, just look back at my August competition entry.

Last Flipbook Test!

I'm posting what I hope will be my last digital 2d peice. I'm missing pencil and paper.


I'm actually pretty happy with this, no big complaints really.
.

My Very First Quadruped...

Here's my first attempt at a horse's walk..


Definately needs aloooott of work.
I wanted to try this due to a short story idea thats been floating around my head, needless to say, it involves horses.

I'm actually starting to fall into a flipbook trap almost haha. It's so much easier and i can see how it looks in motion without taking a picture of each drawing and importing them... but i need to get back to legitamate hand drawn stuff..

For Lack Of Something Better...

I don't really have anything interesting to post, so I just thought I'd put up another quick Flipbook Test.

I Love My New Tablet

My aunt bought be this awesome "Bamboo Tablet" from Wacom and as I said it's awesome.. Heres something I whipped up in Digicel Flipbook Lite in about 15 minutes (Need to buy it to get rid of that stupid watermark)


Edit*
Wow I diddnt even notice this, although I said I would pay attention to it!
Clay Kaytis (Disney Animator of 15 years and Supervising Animator of Rhino the Hamster from Bolt) left a comment on my test of the Genie, and one of his main points was Volume control. The guy is smaller at the top of his jump and larger at the bottom... ugh, i gotta think more.