March 2009
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recent stuff
sorry for the lack of post, my good ol blog. daddy back now, to take care of u. here are some of the stuff i did in the last few weeks. hadnt done a biped jump so i jumped into one. dis here is the flipbook version. After startin this in maya, I learnt a cool lesson from Amrit. Its a pretty old n simple sayin.. its called Keep It Simple Stupid!! i dont think it cud hav been said in a better...
January 2009
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Wrong Answer!!
Hey guys check this stuff! Here’s the link to the short film of a cool pal of mine. The quality of animation is A-class. Do check out the rest of the posts aswell. So without further ado.. Wrong Answer P.S. watch till the very last.. :)
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One Question
here’s a vid i saw on Maciek Gliwa’s Blog. If you havnt seen it then i recommend its the first thing you try. Fifty People, One Question: New Orleans from Benjamin Reece on Vimeo. its the kinda stuff that i would like to see wen i wake up. Plus its a great resource to study people. check it out, u wont b disappointed. u can bank on it. ciao
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Golden Oppurtunity
If u are a budding animator den u cant afford to miss this. A chance to learn from an amazing animator then visit former Pixar Animator, Stephen Gregory’s blog. Chance of a Lifetime here’s my entry Untitled from arien1986 on Vimeo. side step and the walk are on stepped because i cudnt find there ma or mb files. came across some awesome stuff yesterday nyt which has kept me awake till...
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pantomime update n lotsa stuff
here’s the update on the pantomime: first of all, changed the way he held the ball. checked the arcs. and workin a bit on the eyes and accentuated the pondering look he had on his face just before he examines the ball. Understood a lot more things i sudnt do in the future, but its kinda hard to avoid them. pantomime update from arien1986 on Vimeo. drop by a comment if u feel like. The...
December 2008
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pantomime
a big ello!! to those who read this blog and check it all the time.. hehe..( forgive me for talkin to myself!!) hi been a while after i blabbered abt plannin huh.. so here’s wat ive been upto panto from arien1986 on Vimeo. my first crack at pantomime.. leave a comment if u feel like.. man all the concepts by you humans ( ok Us humans) is weird!! like for example holidays.. these are the...
November 2008
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Planning!
Yup, Planning, Planning, PLANNING. So many times ive been told to plan things out and its been said in all the resource available over the net, that i thought i should make a mental note for myself. N thats y this post. Better late than never, i guess. It not that i didnt plan my anims b4. I didnt plan it enough. I was always more anxious to jump in n start animating. And i guess thats why it took...
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Turn Baby Turn!!!!
finally its done.. took a while.. but got there at last.. the splinin on sack helped a lot! check out CadaCosa aka the turn.. n lemme know wat u think.. hehe funny, howmuch rant Amrit, Prash, Vinod, Nanda, Ratman, Naveen n Ranbir had to put up while i was playing this bad boy.. its definetly the baddest boy ive had so far!! thanks homies.. k so on to a new exercise now.. its somethin m thoroughly...
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Noodle Mania!!
m starting to like noodles.. so much so that i took an old anim of mine.. n m splining the bad boy now. m the best part is that it aint that drag afterall.. m almost thru wit this one tho.. will put it up online once m done wit it.. that is in the next few hours.. in the mean time if ya’ll havnt checked Eric Goldberg’s podcast and Richard Williams splinecast then check em out!! peace...
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Uve been Splined!!
phew.. back from the trip.. which trip? the trip to the noodle island off the Mayan Coast.. had visa problems so got stuck. anyways, enough of the rant here’s the sack.. floursack GE’ed!! from arien1986 on Vimeo. AVI lemme know wat u think. ciao
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RaTo.. goin under
here how the dude looks ..its still in steped.. so m about to go into uncharted territories of the noodle land, got my passport yesterday nyt.. ive told the search party to b ready, incase i get lost.. ;) lemme know wat u think.. ciao
October 2008
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RaTo Update
here’s an update.. one more change left to b done.. rest are done i thinhk.. will get to know tommorow.. at the moment m too sleeeepy to upload it on vimeo or any forum.. lemme know.. ciao gdnyt
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RaTo
here’s the floursack, tentively titled “Rato” , it a tribute to a friend of mine..:D i know he’ll love the name atleast.. Here’s the one b4 Amrit gave a crit … B4 Amritz Crit from arien1986 on Vimeo. After doin some of the changes… WIP… from arien1986 on Vimeo. the bad boy is still in stepped.. hopefully will get to GE tonyt.. lemme know wat u...
Turn Update
continue polishin from arien1986 on Vimeo. Here’s an update on the turn.. Since, ive been at it for the last two months almost, ive been advised to take a short break n then get back to the turn. So at the moment m doin a floursack jump.. i think ill get to spine once i get the sack done.. watsay eh? ciao
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time to move on?
here’s how the turn looks at the moment… just wondering if i sud continue working on it or start a new exercise..coz there are a few things that Amrit n Prash pointed out are still left to be fixed.. its been an awesome time..two months, learned loads n loads of stuff from Amrit, Prash n Vinod. so here’s the thing that goin on in my mind, option A> i continue fixing the hip n...
September 2008
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got something going..
heya guys sorry for the lack of post.. its been a crazy time.. with ups n downs, pros n cons, good n bad, u get the idea.. hav been doing a few things (ahem).. i mean exercises (ahem ahem).. i mean animation exercises!!! (dont get any wrong ideas). for starters m joining THE Webinar!! (Provided there are still seats left) n then maybe ill subscribe to Keith’s vts too!! yay! first...
July 2008
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Poses Happy
heyaa unfortunately, m still alive :) .. woohooo feels good to be alive.. trust me.. this has been one crazy month.. on the filed aswell as off the field.. so much happened .. learnt so much.. well ramble abt that in some other post .. this post is for me having fun wit the Tablet.. yeehaw.. since m moving into body mechanics, i thought i should start doing some poses( i know m late).. so each...
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what i've been upto..
its been a while since i posted.. huh… lazy mee.. didnt hit the GE on the walk yet.. n m glad i didnt.. coz Moush took a look at it n found a bug..woohoo… she was so helpful she had a long conversation wit me.. on lotsa stuff.. n solved quite a few of my problems.. she gave me suggestions n corrections on 3 of my exercises :D.. one being the vanilla , the other a side walk n the third...
June 2008
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Walk On
hav been thinkin abt a walk since yesterday.. but since the last walk that i did never was finished, a progressive vanilla walk, i am going through articles, tuts n the survival kit since yesterday to get it more into my head.. i think this time ill do a progressive vanilla n once its done ill either change it around to make it an attitude walk or start off on an attitude walk..will decide wen m...
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practice
it had been awhile since i animated so i thought ild resume with somethin basic..here’s a self jump that i did.. i always had problem wit keeping the weight constant throughout the entire thing.. i hope i am able to do that in this one.. time to walk on…
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Monty Python
Hey if u were wondering “what the heck have i been reading these last few weeks?” here’s a part of the answer, ive always wanted to do some programming, so i picked up Melscript n Python n a few other books :) Went through the Maya Help for Melscript, m glad i know a bit of C. There are lots of question that i havent got the answer so far, in any case m going through Mel...
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Unhide those Controllers!!
Was doing a bouncing ball for the warm up, so had all the keys in and the timing laid, was abt to do a playblast. When my brain had a delusion that i had a script or knew a shortcut to hide n unhide the controllers on the characters. Looked for it but not a script of that sort on the Shelf so Opened the Hotkey Editor n went through all the shortcuts. Nothing here either. I thought what the heck,...
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Lets the games begin!
Heyaa, m back. Had a loooong break from animation, but now i am gettin into the groove, slowly but steadily.Cant keep DW waiting, ryt! All this while i had been reading, reading, watching movies, thinking and READING!! To compensate this 40 odd days break, ill stick to more planning and tighter deadlines. Which means more update at crazy hours of the days n more playblasts!!! Will warm up with a...
May 2008
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Jason Ryan goes live!!!!
Just got the mail that Jason Ryan Animation is going live this Sunday!!! wooohoooo…. time to pester my dad a lot more..coz i really need to get my hands on those tuts..so i think ill hav to postpone the tablet for the time being..lets see.. pray that i can get my hands on them pretty soon.. god bless you.. adios
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sideStep
wooooohoooooooo.. m sooo excited to finally get into this.. hav been thinkin of doin thins since february.. but then i realised that i need to work on the basics before i get into these..Yesterday i decided that i need to put Squirrel in his tree hollow full of acorns, for the time being, though..hav spent an entire week tweaking him..but his tail..oh man..anyways let me not digress..spent the...
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squirrel
hey all.. this is what i am doing at the moment..working on the hops at the moment.. i went pretty much straight ahead on this..n then saw the timing was totally wrong.. so i had to make quite a few changes.. i need to get a perfect blend of straight ahead and pose to pose.. anyways here’s the video.. the actual plan is for the character to go out off the screen.. will do that once i am...
April 2008
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obstacle
hey guys, i started 4days back .. daamm.. here are two versions of it.. which i did after suggestion n crits from Naveen, Sudip and Prateek. Got wonderful crit from Naveen. Kudos!! Havent posted these on any of the forums, will do now. Take a look and let me know wat u think. Is the weight of the ball constant now?? Or is it becoming floaty somewhere? here’s the first version: obstacle...
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bammer corrected
Hello, from today ill try my very best to upload an animation each day, wat ever i do in the day, just to keep a watch on how much i animate each day. Yesterday, i got valuable critiques from Naveen, Ratul and Mr. Keyframe, himself.And did this yesterday itself but vimeo as always took a long time to get the video uploaded.So i am posting it now. Naveen’s correction make the hops look more...
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bammer
here’s an animation i hav been doin for sooo many days now.. hardly animated since bday..will make up for that now.. so here a punch of 2 of Amrit’s animation Bamm Ball Play punched the two an did this.. will work on this more once i get some crits.. thanks to Prateek for makin that valuable suggestion.. bammer edited from arien1986 on Vimeo. Here’s the avi till the time i get...
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self jumps
hey there..didnt upload anythin coz i hardly animated throughout april( but the month is supercool!!)..daaamm.. want to kick myself.. many a things happened..so many memories to cherish..k back to animation now. here is a self jump, i did, got crits from Amrit as always, also posted it on 11 Second Club and on Strut Your Reel..got helpful critiques from Toutouffe, Marc, Max aswell as from Prateek,...
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an awesome trip
Beginning Destination Dont know how to start..saying that the trip was an adventure wud b an understatement. Oh boy! Here it goes, Spoke to my mentor on monday after weeks, so we where talkin abt animations n his preparations for his departure.So he said he wud be going to Haridwar the next day. So that rang a bell in my head.Immediately decided to go to Haridwar the next mornin. He said that he...
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Recent Work
KKKKK so at the moment m hooked to the basics of Jason Ryan and Mr. Keyframe so ill upload dem once i have some time.. will get back to ya’ll.. thanks for visiting.
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Past Work
Still having problems witht the layout of the blog..unable to make any changes to the blog apart from posting.. will make the neccessary ones once i am figure out a way.. Here’s a quick recap of what i had done in the past, in the last few months.. Many changes, learnt many a great deal of basics from Amrit Derghawen and Dj..And got great inputs from Ranbir, Naveen, Ratul and Prasad.. thanks...
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Pimp My Blog
Well as always i tried to be oversmart and wanted to customize my blog, so what do i do, simple, google to the rescue.I googled on to a page called pimp my blog or something, n i was so damm glad i found it, i cud make the changes according to my liking and it would generate the code.Then i take the code n paste it in the blog.N wallaaah there we hav it a nifty customised blog!! It all seemed...
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Redeemed
Hey there.. Changed the entire layout and deleted the previous posts.Let me know what you think abt the new layout. Since all the posts are lost.Ill repost all of them. So gimme sometime ill b back in a while. Thanks.
