My first 3D Animation

Well, my Advanced 3D module is all finally over. I eventually managed to get it to a standard i was happy to hand in. I may consider putting it on my show reel next year but i'll make quite a lot of changes first, theres still sooo much i want to do with it but just didnt have the time. But for now I'll take a well earned break from maya to regain my mental stability. So here it is guys, dont expect much, this is my first time animating in maya :P enjoy!


Advanced 3D Final Animation from Reg Isaac on Vimeo.

My First Show-reel

Well, now that year 2 at uni is coming to an end and im starting to think about round 3, i thought i'd have a go at collecting my work so far together into a Show-reel. Its fun to look back at all the animation ive done so far, not to mention highly embarrassing and cringeworthy, but im pretty proud of my progress. Considering i had literally ZERO animation experience when i came to uni, to see how far ive come now is pretty awesome, and i cant wait to get even better!

Sooo, let the animation compilation extravaganza ... BEGIN!!!

Enjoy :)


Reg Isaac - Character Animation Progress Reel 2013 from Reg Isaac on Vimeo.

Animation in Progress and Life drawing.

Well, i started test animating the first scenes of my film last week. It went relatively well, was a big learning curve and opened my eyes as to how many things i need to change for when i shoot the final product.

I visited Second Home Studios yesterday to speak with Chris Randal, BAFTA Nominated Animation Director/Producer, about a specific way of lighting a part of my animation. hopefully if time is kind to me, i'll get to do it :) A big thanks to Chris for letting me come in and speak to him!

Heres a shot of the test animation in progress

  

Whilst in Birmingham, i figured id do a bit of life drawing. Didnt have much time but as it was such a beautiful day, i couldn't resist.

Life Drawing practice

Trying to regularly go life drawing in and around uni work, its proving difficult but every little counts, here are a few from the past couple of days. These range from 20 seconds to 2 minutes. Soon i'll be converting to pen to improve my use of line and try to speed up my sketching, whilst still improving my observational skills.

Animation has begun!!

So, I'm currently in the process of making my first animated short film, animation is in progress with hopefully the first 30 second to be completed within the next 2 weeks. At least I hope so otherwise I'll fail my uni module :P
Here's a quick snap of the opening sequence, its just a piece of simple animation to run along side the title at the start but every little counts :)

Preparation for CalArts 2014

So, im looking into applying to CalArts for 2014 and will be trying to constantly practice life drawing until then, obviously uni will get in the way over the next couple of months but after that, i am not going to stop drawing! For those who don't know CalArts is ranked the 2nd best animation school in the world (1st in my opinion) so doesn't just accept anyone and everyone. This is something ive been considering for a good 2 years and have only recently decided heck, i'll probably not get in, but just lets go for it and see what happens. I'd really appreciate any feedback what-so-ever so please :)

Ive recently joint a lil' group with a few other budding animators all looking to apply to CalArts 2014, we've decided to set small assignments to keep us drawing ready to apply. Hopefully we'll all improve to awesome extents and be accepted into there with open arms... Well we can dream, anyway.

Heres a few life drawing scribbles ive recently done, the task was 100 hands but with uni biting down hard i only managed 50, but its better than nothing so its all positive progress!

And lastly a few sketches from an external life drawing class i attended when i had time, im looking to go to a lot more of these but unfortunately not until uni's out of the way. 

Spoiler Alert: My first animated short film in the works

So, to those who arn't connected to my facebook page, im currently working on my own personal short film for film festival/competition http://www.depict.org/. This will be the first short film ive ever made so should be a nice eye opener to the process of making an independent film ready for next year where i make my final film for my degree.

The storyboard process is pretty much finalised given the short time scale and animation has begun (yey, my favourite part XD). Im not going to give away to much for now, but expect the final character design and various other work for it coming soon!!!

Doodlin'

YEY, i reached 1000 views on here :D probably not a big deal to many but it is to me, it means that people are actually looking at this and im not just talking to myself ... Anyway, heres just a random doodle i did to test out a new brush in photoshop. Everyday when i walk through the park and see people walking there dogs, i realise how much i miss mine. Ooh the pains of living far away from home ...