POSEMANIACS

daHippie from the SketchTavern was nice enough to share this site he found with 3D models (no skin just muscles) set on a turntable in Flash. awesome place for reference or just gettin your gesture drawing on.


POSEMANIACS


peep it!

Michael Buble

yup yup! went to see Michael Buble at the Greek Theatre. if you know me, then you'd know that i've always wanted to be a crooner a la Frank Sinatra and i've always dug the cool aura of him and the rest of the Rat Pack. i just love that whole 1930s-1950s era... period. the clothes, the cars, the songs... EVERYTHING!!! anyway, i'm rambling...

well, since i never had the opportunity to ever see Ol' Blue Eyes himself, i sure as hell aren't going to miss his heir apparent.

here's the Greek Theatre at about 7-7:30 :

and here's a panoramic shot (sorta) of it when things started:

sadly, i couldn't take a photo of Buble or the opening act. my cell phone's camera couldn't handle it. they said cameras are prohibited there but fuckin EVERYBODY had one. pfft! that's why i didn't bring mine! lame!!!

note to self: bring camera to the Greek Theatre next time.

meh... i brought my binoculars though so it was all gooooood.

Jann Arden was the opening act. amazing voice. she covered Janice Ian's "At Seventeen" flawlessly. she was also HELLA fuckin funny!!! she mentioned how Buble was sponsored by Ketel One and so she thanked her sponsor... Midol. HAHAHAHAH!!! the thing that i was most interested at though was her drummer's drum. it's not even a drum really. it was just a plywood box but it sounded cooool! i want one!

Buble was AWESOME!!! the dude did an Elvis (my hero)!!! he sang "That's Alright Mama" to prove that he's badass like Elvis cuz he's gettin tired of being labeled as a good guy HAAHAHAHAH! dude's HELLA funny too! he did some skits with the band. there was one where he introduced the band and the band got a louder clap than him so he walked off stage. then one of the trumpet players picked up the mic and started talkin shit about Buble. "he's a diva. and y'know what? he's just lip syncing to those songs!" oooh! he went out to the audience... unsuccessfully BAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! while goin to the one side, he picked up and carried this one girl who was holding a glass of beer. it spilled on him. and then when he ran up the stairs he slipped and almost fell. before he can get to the other side the security came and escorted him back to the stage HAAHAHAH! he ended the show with an accapella sans the mic. everybody was soooo quiet while only his voice emanated throughout the theatre. it was amazing.

yummy lighting

at least i think so...

i think there's a bug in Maya which gave me the hardest time to create my own E-Light like in 3Ds Max. the lights kept on focusing at just one point. weird. anyway, i got it working now. then added some 3 point lighting on top of that. yellow orange-ish for the key, bluish for the fill and white for the back.

i'm having too much fun with this

watch out! i'm a craaaaazy lookin skull!!! HAAHAHAHA!!!

but hey look! i figured out a better way of making teeth!!!

yup yup!

skully done

well, as done as it will be anyway

my SECOND

zbrush model!!!

whooo hooo!!! this is fun!
i'mma take this further in a bit...

time to get some lunch first haahahah!

my first

Zbrush sculpture... ever :B

he actually looks human... ish! haahahaha!!!
i think i'm gon' love teh Zbrrrrush...

can't sleep...

so i posed the 2 rigs i have so far (finding problems in the process and fixing 'em)

yeah... i STILL have 2 rigs so far. craaaaap...
i'm thinking of making my own generic rig now. one that which i could just add quick minor changes to its facial features like nose, ear and hair and such (a la Hogan rig or that Pixar rig) to make it look like a different character.
and i'mma just scrap that Gorilla piece that i had in mind (that or put it off til next quarter).

pffft!


it's funny. i'm way behind but i'm not stressing out.
well, not yet anyway.

finally...

done re-rigging Alex Valdes' soldier model in Maya (he rigged it in 3DS Max)

now i can finally animate. pffft! i'm so behind.

cape-nesity

felt like drawin some cloth and... that came out

y-eah...

schmetchies

a character from a story that went nowhere... at least for now
(i was bored so i dropped him on some paper texture i found)

a caricature of one of my teachers

the end...

is here.
(oh and that's my myspace in the background if you were wondering)


Borders was hella packed!!! 400+ deep of smelly and sticky kids and kids at heart.

they had a place where they could play quidditch:

unfortunately, i forgot my camera in the car and when i came back, they were gone. across from there (where you see lots of people) were cotton candies and a place where you can make your own wands and such.

ooh and Dumbledore made an appearance. the only dude worth taking a photo of in there. kids jaws dropped and fanboys/fangirls squealed with glee when they walked up the stairs and saw him right in front of them. i didn't ask him to pose for me cuz... i found him creepy.

other than him, there was a mini-Harry Potter (he was in that crowd to the right of Dumbledore where they were giving away prizes to people who answer Potter trivia correctly), a fat Snape, a couple of Dementors and a super stinky Sorting Hat. jeez that dude stank!!!

and that was pretty much it!

songs about jane

*gasp*

what's this? an update?! no way!!!
BELIEVE IT!

let's start off with this:

my take on devoshun

i reckon i did ok.


and here's a preview of one of the skits that'll be in my animation demo reel:

y-eah... lighting's not finalized yet. it should be far more dramatic when i'm done with it.


and while we're on animation, Victor Navone, a Pixar animator, has done one of the clearest tutorials i have ever read on Spline Editors. it's called Splinophilia (it's a 2 parter). go check it out when ya can and learn something.

and to end this entry, how about a barrage of animations from none other than the amazing folks at Gobelins eh? yup! they just released the latest student works for the Annecy festival. check 'em out here.

The Black Destroyer!!!

COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU!!!

haahahah! somebody (i have a feeling i know who) posted on my last entry asking for "something new" so there ya go! that's just the title card for the short me and Da King is working on for our Astronomy class. it is going to kick soooooo much ass. that is, if i get off my lazy ass and actually do some work HAH!

how about something a little different eh?

or at least something that i haven't done since high school:




i reckon it came out pretty swell but yeah... there's your reason why i stuck with drawing characters instead of letters haaahahah! that M is really buggin me. i'mma fix it later when i color it.

paz!

(by the way, King's going to kill me when he sees this. i did that instead of the work we're supposed to be doing for our astronomy class HAAHAHAHAHAH!!! SORRY DUDE!)