updated chase scene

This is an update of the shot!
i am really enjoying animating this piece, and i think you can tell from the standard.
the rig is really simple to use, but the legs can be a little tricky. I really thing that robotic and creature animation is the way forward for me, but lets see.

NEW PROJECT

ok, so less than a week to the deadline and we have started a new short film :o

Unfortunately the rigs for rust didn't work properly and we had to drop it because of time restrictions. So Chris and I decided to create our own cinematic. This short film was visualised within a couple of hours, and i think its going to actually look quite good. Its not a long film so dont expect anything extravagant.

but heres a quick snippet of what i have done so far.

hope u like!

Dancing in love

this is a digital sketch of mine!
im really happy with the results im slowing getting better at using my graphics tablet!

Colour adjustments

I played around with the hue of the Images, i actually really think they work! For my final image i will most probably keep to the original, but its nice to know what else works with this image, for possible future use! i wanted to achieve a Trippy, Hippie style with eh hue adjustments, and i think they work perfectly. I will most probably retouch the image slightly in the near future just to polish of the piece really.

Don't Abandon Us

This is a slightly updated Animation, In this i have smoothed out alot of the curves and tried to get all the little kinks out. There is still a few problems, and i still need to render to make sure the lip sync fits! once i have animated it all, i will re texture her, and light the scene, as well as create the background.... theres alot of work to do!
The last thing i have left to animate is the hair, i have never really animated hair so this could be a challenge, the main thing is, is to get the weight of the hair constant, and not make it look too heavy, then too light.
The next update should hopefully be a nearly finished animation

LET YOUR IMAGINATION GROW

this is the finished painted piece that i have been working on, this piece was the influence for my website with the title 'Let Your Imagination Grow'. The piece shows a girl reading a book, but as she is reading it her imagination grows and all these beautiful plants and colourful smoke starts to appear.
The idea was that hopefully people start to use the full potential of their imagination more.

'The imagination is more important than knowledge'

15 Day Countdown

So i've only got 15 Days till i submit my work, I STILL HAVE A LOT TO DO! ouch.
I want to talk about my progress so far. This year has been very different from last year, i know a lot more about the business of animation and the process of it. This point last year i had a lot more work to do, and the quality of animation was a lot worse. Understanding how to animate personalities in characters was something that i hadn't quite gripped until now, i'm not saying i'm a professional at it but i know much more now.
Now its coming to the end of my education i need to really ask myself what i want to do with this trade. I find i am better at animating creatures and the body mechanic style of animation rather than the character based animation you see in pixar!
To be honest i think i really have to work in the industry to see which style i feel more comfortable working in! The reason i wanted to work in the computer animation industry was because of epic Hollywood blockbusters like Transformers and i think that's where i would feel the most comfortable working on.

Prince of Egypt dialouge WIP

this is the full animation of the prince of egypt dialogue, the play blast is running slow so the animation lags slightly, i can see quite a few problems in this piece but its definitely getting there.... :)

Horse Cycle (1st submittal)

This is the run cycle for my first submittal for my show reel. i will most probably smooth out some of the animation for my final.
I have looked at this cycle so much that i cant see all the problems with it. Hopefully i receive good feed back from this cycle.

Animated aliens

This is the finished animation scene for the VFX project. Now it needs to be textured and rendered out then combined with the footage taken.
I have tried to create some interaction between the aliens so they look more like an intellectual race.

The top video is my first attempt at animating the scene, as you can see the alien is blocking out the other, so I needed to create a way that the aliens could all be shown.

The second video is my final attempt.
Im looking forward to the final result.

horse gallop

i have been working on a horse gallop for a while now, this is the out come.
i still am working on this. After a looking at it on vimeo i think i should be a little faster. but im pretty happy with the results so far!
the final video will be lit up and look quite professional... i hope :P

Vfx Film

So for one of my collaboration projects i am working on a Vfx Film two guys on my course are directing. The film is similar to the halo reach advert. The film is basically a mini war scene between cadets ( who have been filmed) and aliens ( which i will be animating).

Here are a few animated scenes which i have animated so far, some are still WIP.





I am not the only person animating on this film there are around 5 other animators. im looking forward to the final outcome.

Let your imagination grow.

i haven't uploaded any of my artwork for a while, things have been very busy.
im in the last 2 months of my education so i have focus primarily on my animation.
For one of my modules i have to create a final image, and this will be it.
i plan to paint it digitally, having her in normal colours but everything else around her extremely bright!

Horse walk cycle Wip

This is my first attempt at a animating a horse, i have mainly focused on trying to get the timing in the legs more than anything. Still needs a good ol smooth out.

For my showreel i hope to have a Horse walk cycle and a horse gallop cycle.
A horse is meant to be a hard horse to animate and i wanted to include some real challenges in my showreel so hopefully Production companies see that i can animate well.

Untitled from Michael Das on Vimeo.

Stay Tuned

Through my blog, there is obviously a lot more Illustration than Animation, at the moment i have been focusing on my Animation in the last few months because my course has very little that encourages Concept art and illustration for animation. I hope to soon put on my animal walk cycles.

In this blog i am going to start using a lot more of my hand drawn work, this is actually what my strongest talent is, but for some reason i haven't been using it on my blog.

Stay tuned.

Animal animation problems

Ok, so the plan for my show-reel was too have 20 seconds of great lioness animation, including a lion hunt and chase where the true elasticity of lions are shown, as well as several chained lioness attacks where the lioness is held back by a chain.
Unfortunately after trying to use the rigged model there were some problems with the mesh that meant that the model is unusable.
This was not due to a poor rig it was due to the model itself not being created to an industry level, the model was made by someone outside of university.

Due to this i have had to change around my show-reel, instead i have created two different horse cycles, and one rapture walk cycle.

Lioness Rig

This is a Rig one of my talented friends made for me to do some nice hunting animations with.
I am really looking forward to using it!!!



if you want to see more of her stuff out check it out at

http://danimation-x.blogspot.com/

MAGIK MOMENTS ( new blog)

I started a separate blog. it focuses on Images, Music and Videos that inspire me. I think it is important to keep a diary like this as there is so much creative work out there it is hard to keep a track on all of the influences in my life.

I always search for other peoples work to help evolve my creativity and imagination. i feel that this is an important part of being an artist.

Magik moments.

http://magikalmoments.tumblr.com/

check it out!!

All my Life

Prince of Egypt : Dialogue from Michael Das on Vimeo.

This is a piece of dialogue from 'The prince of Egypt' this is only a 5 second extract from a 23 second clip.
It is still a Work in progress so hopefully the final piece will look great.

Elderly Gent

Untitled from Michael Das on Vimeo.

This is a loop i animated for one of my uni projects. It was one of the first animations done in Autodesk Maya. there are a few problems. but i am actually happy with it. i always strive to do better, which is good. I learnt that everyone starts from somewhere.