down by the lake with my dear roomates*

"Mid Year Test" med Pink Panther

Half way through my first year at the Animation Workshop we had to pass a mid year exam as well as writing a reflexion about our experience in the school until now. This reflexion and the test went pretty well for me even though I got a little stressed by the short time we had to achieve it. We had to produce a small animation starring our dear Pink Panther catching a baseball and falling straight on the ground. I am joining to my animation the few preparation sketches I made before animating. 

good old TDA days*

Dance Animation with Mike Nguyen

Lately at the Animation Workshop, I have been taught by a grand man : Mike Nguyen. Mike was, among others, lead animator for the famous movie The Iron Giant. He also achieves lots of wonderful work as an animator in the industry since he graduated from CalARTS. I never had a teacher has good as him and not only thanks to his exciting career. Mike breaths happiness and his words carry harmony, emotions, life, peace, quietness... All of these reminders made me much closer to my true self. He taught me how to follow my emotions in my animation and across this new approach I reached another level of expression I've never attained before. Here is the dance animation I came with during the last week with Mike. It is still rough but I am extremely happy about the result. Something organic, almost real to my eyes, appeared to me. I was very productive during this last week so I post here some pages from my sketchbook.

Thank you Mike*

MID YEAR SHOWREEL

TADAAAAA! After long hours of editing, here is my mid year showreel. 

Design + Lawrence Marvit = you know what I mean

That was a tough but great week : I was taught design by Lawrence Marvit and here are one of the assignments we went through. We had to create a picture illustrating some pirates/ghosts/zombies invading Venice. For the second picture we had to draw a fairy city. Everything was made on Photoshop -> PHOTOSHOP IS FUN

TV PAINT - suite

Here is our final assignment of the year at the Animation Workshop. We worked on TV Paint again with a frog and a fly as characters. We had 6 sec to make them interact ;).