tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58300439605392103792024-02-06T22:29:47.624-08:00Brian CartoonsBrian Carter Animation Blog. Calarts Animation Student class of 2012.Brian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-91361996468414733682012-08-02T14:47:00.000-07:002012-08-02T14:48:32.923-07:00When You Look At It That Way...<div class="separator" style="border: 10px solid black; clear: both; text-align: center; width: 600px;">
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Here's another little test I put together. The process for this one went very smoothly, and I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. My wife is convinced that this is supposed to be me. What can I say? I drink coffee and tend to wear black shirts.Brian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-13454805938891613832012-07-18T00:44:00.000-07:002012-07-20T18:01:27.463-07:003D World #159... Featuring Me!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My film, "Princess of the Magical Tears" has a two-page article about it in this month's issue (#159) of 3DWorld magazine!<br />
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It's in the section called 'Short Cuts', and I answered a lot of questions about my thought process and some of the technical challenges I had when making my film.<br />
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The article isn't on the website, it's only in the magazine at the moment, so you have to buy the magazine if you want to read it, but this month's issue will be FREE for the iPad / iPhone during Siggraph, which is August 5th-9th, so check it out then if you have one!<br />
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UPDATE: Here's a link the abbreviated web-version of the article: <a class="external" href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/2012/07/19/new-animation-short-princess-of-the-magical-tears/">http://www.3dworldmag.com/2012/07/19/new-animation-short-princess-of-the-magical-tears/</a>.Brian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-61810038945073189372012-07-17T23:07:00.000-07:002012-07-17T23:11:34.277-07:00A Dirty JobHere's a new test I've been working on:
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The trash that spills out of the bag just ended up being sort of like mud or compost simply because I didn't want to model and animate a bunch of small objects, so sue me! Just rigging the bag was a trick in itself. This situation itself is actually very familiar to me from my two years experience as a barback in a New York City restaurant. I'm just glad to be making new CG stuff for my reel again!<br />
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(P.S. The character rig I used is called the 'Malcom Rig' and I got it courtesy of <a class ="external" href="http://animschool.com/">AnimSchool.com</a>)Brian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-37655354357632852522012-06-27T13:52:00.002-07:002012-07-18T00:45:49.998-07:00People Are Talking!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Princess of the Magical Tears" will be featured in an upcoming issue of 3D World Magazine!!! I believe it will be the September issue (#159), but I will announce when it becomes available.<br />
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Also, there was nice mention of it in this <a class="external" href="http://laist.com/2012/05/10/calarts_producers_show_a_sneak_peek.php">review</a> of the CalArts Producers' Show from the LAist!<br />
<br />Brian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-27010749287370467752012-05-16T00:29:00.001-07:002012-06-27T13:57:13.311-07:00My Final Film is Done!My fourth year film is now online and posted below. If you would like to see more awesome CalArts films be sure to check out the <a class="external" href="http://vimeo.com/channels/calartscharanimfilms2012">CalArts Character Animation Student Films 2012</a> channel on VimeoBrian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-25350359975685798212012-05-16T00:08:00.002-07:002012-05-20T22:20:05.718-07:00Princess of the Magical Tears<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="337" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/42243959?portrait=0&color=ffffff" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="600"></iframe> <br />
a princess restores a man to life with her tears, and this gift is subsequently exploited.<br /> <br /> Original Score by Hillary Thomas<br /> <br /> The Princess - Megan Therese Rippey<br /> The Prince and the Jester - Robert Duncan<br /> The Guard - Michael Rianda<br /> <br /> * the Morpheus Rig was used to create some of the background characters.Brian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-24698242707554551162012-01-19T00:49:00.000-08:002012-01-19T00:50:19.414-08:00The Ugly ClubFinally an update for my very neglected blog. Here's my last test from Randy Haycock's awesome animation class last semester. I really learned a lot.<br />
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For now I'm hard at work on my animation for my final film, I'm not sure how much of it I will show before it is finished. Stay tuned.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(the dialogue is from The Upright Citizen's Brigade)</span>Brian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-4778073316932998592011-08-23T10:21:00.000-07:002012-07-17T23:11:56.528-07:00I Mean BusinessHere's a new animation test, finally. I modeled and rigged* this character as well, and he will probably be appearing in my film next year, with some changes (a different costume, and without that hair).<br />
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I have also completely modeled and rigged* another character besides this one, so look forward to an animation test with her soon!<br />
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*<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">using the <a class="external" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AdvancedSkeleton">Advanced Skeleton</a> Auto-Rigger for much of it</span>Brian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-52498913993568048912011-08-11T16:07:00.000-07:002011-08-11T16:12:28.660-07:00Note to Self:Don't edit your referenced character set without saving your reference edits, or your character's face will EXPLODE!<br />
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Without giving too much away, there are some more advanced techniques that I did not use on this character that I have been testing and plan on implementing in my next characters. <br />
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An astronaut on a long mission begins to find her copilot extremely annoying.<br />
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My 3rd-Year Film at CalArts<br />
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Original Score by Hillary ThomasBrian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-59246428214986511542011-04-27T14:29:00.000-07:002011-04-27T14:29:31.844-07:00XOXOThis is one of the last assignments of the year in <a href="http://team-spectacular.com/" class="external">Scott Wright's</a> awesome animation class. He gave us these fish character designs and had us animate a scene that was less than 80 frames with them in class.<br />
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Also, PS: Films are done now, so stay tuned for the release of my film online and look forward to seeing more frequent blog posting from me for a while!<br />
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Another dialogue test for my animation class/reel.<br />
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This is a quick dialogue test I did for CG animation class. I shot reference of myself acting it out first, which I never really did for dialogue before, and I really enjoy that method of working.<br />
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These two sheets are what a film looks like to me before the first drawing has even begun. One is a calendar letting me know what days I have to do each shot, and the other is a shot breakdown, letting me know what pieces of animation there are to do in each shot.<br />
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I scheduled my shots from most difficult to least difficult in my calendar. The red areas are vacation time when I will not be working as much on my film. I plan to have all of my animation done by the time spring break rolls around, and after that I will spend all of April fine-tuning, coloring, and fixing things that do not work.<br />
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All the red stuff in my shot breakdown indicates things that have not been worked on at all, which at this point is everything. When I do some work I change it to yellow, and when I consider it finished, I change it to green. By the end of April, everything red should be green.<br />
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So that's it! Look forward to my next film, coming in April...Brian Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133713024590965536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830043960539210379.post-7321695408319391602010-12-21T00:50:00.000-08:002012-07-17T23:12:34.586-07:00Shape-ShifterSo first semester is now over and it is time for the much needed winter break. Here is the current progress on my model, next semester we go into rigging. For our final exam we had to do three blend shapes with our models: a blink, a mouth open, and one of our choice (mine is a brow up, and I got to learn how to do a wrap to get the eyebrow geometry to follow the facial geometry). Before the next semester begins I have to straighten the character's legs out because that makes it easier to rig.<br />
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UPDATE 03/21/11 - I straightened out the character's legs.<br />
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I am going to miss this class, <a class="external" href="http://www.danplatt.com/">Dan Platt</a> was a really awesome teacher and I definitely learned a lot.<br />
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