Cyco Club2: Frozen

More Cyco Club. It was a fight, but I squeezed some FX into this one. More to come.

Well ya know

Well ya know - ruff from Adrian Brisland on Vimeo.

Ruff anim on a 'FX' character lipsync  (voice of Eric Goldberg)

Splash

quick flash test

Mud Man v2

More Mud. I think hes moving along alright

Mud Man v1

Beginning stages of a side project. Inspired by Fern Gully's 'Hexxus'

Foreshadowing

Work sketch made 2min at a time

Gilland Book Signings

A few weeks ago, Joseph Gilland, author of Elemental Magic, came down to Ottawa and gave a lecture on classical effects animation and the challenges it faces in today's industry.

He has been travelling the world giving this seminar and although he compressed his usual three day talk in just one for us, it was passionate, informative and inspiring all the same.

Many people bought his book and he sat down for over an hour signing and drawing a little sketch in each one. I stood behind his shoulder and video tapped as many of his drawings as my legs would let me. It was tiring but worth it!

Here are a few with good video quality/favorite of mine. Feel free to cut the audio.




rock explosion 1


rock explosion 2


explosion1


plasma shots


Fire 1


Fire 2


Fire 3


Smoke


Water 1


Water 2


Water 3


Water 4


Water 5


Water 6


Water 7


Wave

Match Maker

My first voyage into effects, this is the standard beginner assignment as recommended to me by Kathleen Quaife (whos torch cycle Ive studied below).

I asked her a little about how she thought one should begin to learn this stuff and she graciously told me the best way was to strike out on my own and try to understand and express myself through analyzing a "simple" little match.

so here goes....



final


rough


and a couple of my thumbnail studies for good measure.

Fire

Another fire cycle that Ive copied in order to study effects animation. This one is straight out of Joseph Gilland's Elemental Magic.

In the spirit of experimentation, Ive tried a different approach on a few frames here and there. My favorite bit was how Gilland has rolled his inner bits of fire off the central ball.

© Joseph Gilland.

effects animation!

wow, its been almost 3 months....who knew.


I recently came across Elemantal Magic, the art of effects animation by Joseph Gilland. And it is AMAZING and I am hooked.

and so, while searching for more to fuel my curiosity in this side of animation I never realized I didnt know...I came across the great blog of Kathleen Quaife whose effects animation blew me away again.

she posted a page on fire animation and I couldnt resist drawing over it and filming it for myself: