Comin in early...

..either that or not post yeah? Not an option. Nothing special . Some noticeable jiggle...I know.  Of course I want to tackle something grand but I know it does me no good as I need to make a steady habit. One thing Ive always wanted to animate was some star wars stuffs. Tossin in a quick photoshop dook.

Down the road I plan on doin something more "star wars nerd fun" but for now " hoooray I posted!!!" Goin on "break" . Im sure I will come back more tired than I was before the break...which makes me wonder why I think its a break...


Anyways I dont know how this will play into my next weeks animation post. Toon in fer one heck of a train wreck!!

Keep on keepin on!

Rushing it today..

Quick head turn test. Pretty messy , but here it is in all its glory hehe.  And purchased a sketch book. ( I usually like just drawing on loose paper but figured Id be better served having something I can jot down notes in too )

Too lazy to scan so I took a pic with my phone. So pretty light this post.

Was snowin this morn so it put me in one of those gloomy moods. Pretty much set the tone for me today. Hopefully Ive got some rest comin with my weekend. ( I doubt it but a guy can dream yeah?)

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Til the next post, keep on keepin on!

3 fer 3...

Tryin to keep to friday post. ( Thurs would be better as Im about as lazy as you get on fridays ) Tired ace today. This weeks animation test is a baseball pitch study. Again tryin to keep things where I dont over think and let them happen for happiness sake.




A pick of my daughter, a photoshop landscape study, and of course a couple of sketches.

Im not gonna lie, half of me wants to stop this. ( the half that pretty much has been winning out my whole life )

 Its crazy how emotions can change your perspective, positive or negative. Im accepting that Im uncomfortable with this and that I know in the grand scheme of things its alright to be so. When I  take on something new , I notice that inner jerk hole says "Why are you tryin so hard? " What is this nonsense for ? "Your uncomfortable and how is this beneficial?" "Just keep to the sketching and leave it at that pal..Isnt that enough. You have no need to put this kinda effort into something you dont really make money off of. Be happy with where you are at..."

Jerk hole am I right?

A year ago I thought to balance my life out I had to scale down my art side and grow my fam side. And I noticed I was completely miserable. Depressed as all get out. Since then Ive realized that I didnt need to do that. I just need to go as hardcore with my fam as I do with my art. Perspective changed. Im much happier. (Theres a bit more to it than that and hope to gettin around to sharing it.)

So to inner jerk hole: thats why I need to do it. Because its the best part of me and thats what I want to give to my fam. So back up and  let me do just that....

Till next post keep on keepin on!

End of week dump

Starting with sketches... I know this habit will never go away.

Happy friday all! With it being the end of the week comes the post that I promised to keep up with.  Im gonna add a small bit to that goal. To make sure I apply my learning , every post from now on will have to  have some sort of animation in it. ( Nervous in even puttin this out there...but thats how you grow right?)

 Im also gonna make it a point to give my perspective each post to iron out my thoughts and kinda make it a journal. This will help me examine myself a bit more thoroughly. Lets see how it turns out.

So animation: Quick zombie walk cycle and quick action test. ( keepin  it simple and growing from there :) Its easy to want to run out and do super fancy stuff .Thats the kind of thinkin that gets me in trouble.I have to remember theres no rush and  keepin it simple will help me savor the flavor.

 The rough test was from this video. I love anime action sequences and martial arts so I think most every thing Im gonna post animationwise to begin with is gonna be studies of  this kinda stuff. Im sure it will evolve the more i get into it but for now thats what gets me excited to learn animation. Easier to learn for me when I put my mind in excitement mode.


I also bought a new camera lens and flash. (The lens is used but new to me..) When my daughter was  born I wanted to have more control of my pics of her. Because I had no foundation they never turned out. Im tying in learning photography so I can learn to look at things differently.

The pics of my camera with new/used 28-135 mm lens and new flash on my canon T1i taken with my Galaxy Note 2 . The next ones are couple of test pics of my daughter. I plan on makin this a habit as well .

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I feel so noobsih like Im just starting this blog .Im excited to start my change and see where it takes me. Its long over due.

Keep on keepin on!

Double post Friday???

 

 

A goal that I have had for the longest time was to draw well enough to animate in 2d, and to be honest as much as I draw, its still over whelming to think about. It seems to hold this magic over me that makes me feel like its an impossiblity. Especially now as I dont animate for a living, and becoming a dad has taken the alot of my time and emotions tryin to balance out being a creative and family man. ( Age seems to be takin its toll on me as well...)

Im tellin  you this because I think Ive been keepin myself back for too long by puttin too much pressure on myself and letting all the fear and worry keep me from actually DOIN anything. Using lame excuses to hide my true potential from me. Im tellin you this because I need to wake up and take my steps. Embrace the fear and uncertainty and get back to the real reason I draw and create. For the shear love of it. For the happiness that it fills me with. The ability it gives me to shed light on the areas of my mind that are dark and painful. To grow to be the person I know I am...

It IS WHO I am.

I tell you this because I need to put it out there and believe that I not only can but WILL do this. 

I tell you this because you understand what Im saying....I do this because doin is the fastest way to get there.

So studying some action sequences from this short: kung fu cooking girls  ( this is how Id like to  I will animate one day.)

and drawing of my hands. Have a great weekend!

Keep on keepin on

End of the week postin

 

So to keep me on my bloggin toes Louis Phillipe St Laurent  has offered to post up every tuesday in trade that I post every " friday". ( Was gonna make it thursdays but already missed that by 46 minutes.)

Seems fair enough. So heres my first "make it a habit" friday post.

Keep on keepin on!

Ready for winter to end...

edit : now with rough walk cycle:

 

 

 

 

Im tropical people....

So a cammy rig Im doin in flash ( reworkin the chun to fit better with this one. ) and  a revamp of the  the pirate from prior post. A quick bane dook and some blue pencils...that is all.


Keep on keepin on!

It wouldve been nice..

 

if I could have figured stuff out more when I had energy and time and youth and...

Well Im busy as usual but I think Im realizing this is because my plate size has decreased in my aging and that  it doesnt take much for me to be busy.

So I took one of my boss' doodles and decided clean him up and rig him  ( to get more flash drawing time in ) and I love the shapes he comes up with. I think I lost a lil something doin what I do but he still has a lil fun to him in my opinion. Probably will simplify a few things and get him animatable.

( I know I still have my chun li and yes Im still workin on that thanks for askin...)

So here he is and a few more blue pencil dooks.

keep on keepin on!

Gasp* Blue Pencil sketches...

 

That is all. Hope everyone has a great weekend. I just pray Im not sick at least one of the days...

Keep on keepin on

Flu has been kikin my ace..

edit : plannin out the animation that I want to do and a quickie dialogue test:

Ive been out with the flu since Saturday and dont think its ever kiked my butt so badly..Anywhoo I started another flash project to get myself to be more excited about animating and actually doin some ( seeing as thats where Id like to grow mainly . You could tell huh? ) Also want to try and keep momentum with the posting.

I was gonna continue workin on my super girl that I had rigged up but lost her. So I started a chun li rig before I got sick to get back on the ball. Completely done in flash. Not super far with it but figure if I post it up I will have to finish it enough to animate her. So lets see what that gets me...

keep on keepin on

So yeah Google+

 

Figured might as well continue to come out of my comfort zone and join. ( Although I dont know what to do with it so if any one has any suggestions Im game to hear em.)

Almost went head on this morn  with a truck. Roads they are a iceeeee today. Gonna go home and hug my wife and daughter. Keep on keepin on

Thanks

 

  I looked over at my archive today, and realized that Ive been goin on like nine years. To tell ya the truth Im pretty ADD. Well extremely ADD. I wouldve never guessed that I would have stuck to something for so long.

Ive been very fortunate and blessed  to be able to have a creative outlet, and even more so to be able to share it through here. My blog posts through the years has seen me through some of my toughest days and some of my happiest moments.

It amazes me that people visit my blog as I still feel as noobish as I did when I first started it. So for those who do stop by from time to time I cant thank you enough. And to those who stop by and leave comments, its beyond thanks as thats a great motivator to continue to improve.

I love talkin shop and nerdin out  ( more so in person ) and hope to grow the nads enough to share my enthusiasm and all things creative more so in the coming posts.

 Thanks again. I look forward to keep on keepin on

Drawing on the Galaxy Note 2

I just stumbled upon this a couple of days ago. TV paint has a full version of the TV paint pro for android available. I guess its a timed version beta that will end in June ( from what it told me after I installed it on my phone ). Before all the gushing over this begins, I want to clarify a few things. First, I haven't spent a whole lot of time with it. Will probably continue to give input the more I use it. Second I'm a bit forgiving of it on the basis that this is on my phone. ON MY PHONE.... A full pro version...this in itself is incredible to me.

( I'm just gonna take this from a drawing point of view so bear with me.) I messed with a rip off of this program called Mirage on my PC while I was going to animation mentor. ( Don't remember the specifics but mirage disappeared soon after.) I loved the feel of that program on my cintiq and hoped to one day be confident enough in my drawings to animate tradigitally. ( this is an ongoing goal of mine which I will admit something I fear... but we'll leave that discussion for another post..)

So gripes first. Not a fan of tiny pen but then again having the phone storing it nicely kinda counters that. I'm a space case and would lose it in a heart beat. ( The phone also has a nifty feature for this as well. An alarm that goes off when the pen is out and moves far enough away from the phone.  I havent tested this yet because I think I'd rely on it to much. ) Also navigating , in some ways, is good enough ( like the fly out menus for some of the tool bars and time line ) ,but navigating with my fingers to pinch zoom was irritating to the point where I just use the navigation window and scroll bars for more precision. Once I got over those things I was good to go.

Back to drawing. The pressure senstivity is very nice with this program. ( Why oh why cant this be mainstream already....) Procreate would be bad ace with it. Which I love on the Ipad. Just don't like drawing with a nub of a stick. Not that I can't draw with one , just prefererence that's all. To tell you the truth Id rather draw on my ipad, but I find it easier to bust out my phone as its with me more often.  I know there are a few pressure sensitive pens runnin around out there for the ipad but those are again nubby.

TV Paint has a slew of tools that are robust to say the least . Painting, chalk, pencils etc all feel smooth. I am surprised how well my phone handles it. Ive had it freeze up when I click in a type input  area to resize a brush and then try to use the slider to adjust some more before the keyboard retracts. The keyboard gets stuck open and cant select anything, which forces a restart.

I plan on dooking out a simple animation with it soon. Gonna plow through the tutorials they have on the site and will post info with updated feelings as I test drive it more thoroughly. For now Im happy to have a nice sketch tool that my wife and daughter cant take away from me. I've included a screen grab and a pic of it on the phone. Nothing spectacular. ( My daughter sees the pen and the phone has to be put away ). I wouldn't say it would replace my ipad for drawin on the go, but because I always have my phone with me I will prolly use it more.

To wrap this up, heres some you guessed it sketches!

Also, Im interested in gettin on google plus * gasp ( cant do the facebook thing ) and was wondering if youre on it, do you have any impressions youd like to offer up?
 Anyhow keep on keepin on

So I took the plunge...

In the beginning of November I took the plunge and purchased a smart phone. ( I had a simple walmart one for a couple years after losing an expensive smart phone...) I ended up gettin a Samsung Note 2. Figured Id go big or go home. Besides I could doodle on it . ( From  the wife who works nights, to the daughter who I must entertain when I get home from work, the situation leaves me little left  to get in some cintiq time :(  )

Now I fought this for some time as I knew it would be opening pandoras box.....boy did I under estimate. I can see why so many people spend so much time on em now. Although Im not using it for all the social stuffs it could do. Facebook and messaging etc .. ( Yes Im a sad soul who has yet to have a social presence..) But from a creative hobbyist perspective SLIIIIIIIIIICK. 

Im still learning the ropes with it as I get in trouble for buryin my face into in too often.. I figured once in a while  when Im super giddy about what it can do I will post some nifty goodness about it. 

So, first thing I loved about it was ( obviously the pen tool which is pressure sensitive. )  That was simple. Didnt think I would use the S Note feature so much but find myself using it all the time. I thought because it was so small that I wouldnt use it unless I was desperate to draw.. This was also my first foray into android, so I didn't know what to expect. I hated to love my ipad but felt like there were things it should do for the creative on the go. Seeing as that the ipad is now my wife and daughters now, the Note 2 has been a godsend for me. 

The screen is huge and beautiful. I love that movies ( netflix and hulu ) fill it up completely and I love that I can make screen grabs and make little notes to myself as to what I like about a particular scene in a movie . This in itself was a feature that I love to use as building a library of reference is now with me at all times.

I wont ramble on too much about it, but a nifty tool that has made gathering and gettin inspired even more at my finger tips. Ive got more I want to post but time she is limited...If youve got one Id be more than happy to hear tips and tricks on how it helps you in your creative endeavors. 

I plan on posting more on the subject but for now , here's some doodles 

keep on keepin on

Wow where have I been?

 

Firstly, Happy New Year and hope everyone's holiday was a blast.

B. Also hope that everyone's New Years is off to a positive start.

So Im in the midst of some change. ( new year .... go figure....)  Im hoping to change this blog into what  it was  intentionally supposed to be when I started it up. What that means...we'll see.

Til then heres to gettin back on to the posting horse..keep on keepin on

Some more colored stuffs..

 

Keep on keepin on