Tag Archives: Animation

Crab Character

Written by eric. Posted on 5 Sep ’10. Filed under Main. Tagged Animation, Experimental, Hack, Journal, Sketch, Tech, wip. No comments.

This is an overview of some of the techniques I’ve been playing around with this week. As well as an look at how I went from a sketch, to maquette, to a 3d proxy model. One of my goals with all of this experimentation was to find a more automated approach to reconstructing a model [...]

One Month In Tokyo

Written by eric. Posted on 18 Aug ’10. Filed under Main. Tagged Animation, Japan, Journal, Shirogumi, Video. 21 Comments.

I spent the month of July, 2010 working as an animator at Shirogumi VFX in Tokyo. I had a great time living and working in Tokyo and I wanted to share my experience. Please enjoy! Thanks to Shirogumi and my uni (Kyoto University of Art) for this opportunity. Music: Quruli – Rose Flower Also live [...]

Toji Peace Exhibit

Written by eric. Posted on 11 Aug ’10. Filed under Main. Tagged Animation, Exhibit, Experimental, Japan, Photo. No comments.

Here is a photo I took today at the exhibit. Ill be working the front desk again on friday so come and say hi! The exhibit is based around the theme of “peace” and also to mark the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. There are photos from Yasu Suzuka, and a collaborative short [...]

goodbye…

Written by eric. Posted on 28 Jun ’10. Filed under Main. Tagged Animation, Experimental, Sketch, Video, wip. No comments.

rigging screengrabs

Written by eric. Posted on 19 Jun ’10. Filed under Main. Tagged Animation, Experimental, Sketch. No comments.

I’ve been rigging this character charles since I wrapped up a second pass on the turtle rig last week, the main body parts are finished. I tried out an idea to put a layer of FK over top of the IK system. The idea is that you can add fk animation to your ik animation [...]

Turtle Animation Test

Written by eric. Posted on 9 Jun ’10. Filed under Main. Tagged Animation. 4 Comments.

This is the first animation test for my next project...

How Aliens Are Born

Written by eric. Posted on 9 Mar ’10. Filed under Main, Shorts. Tagged Animation, Experimental, Japan. No comments.

It's true, this is actually how aliens are born. Go ahead, ask your mom!

Peace and Introspection

Written by eric. Posted on 25 Oct ’09. Filed under Events, Main. Tagged Animation, Exhibit, Experimental, Kyoto, Photo, Video. 2 Comments.

Tomorrow begins the Peace and Meditation show at the Shina Gallery in Kyoto, Japan...

Open Studio 2009

Written by eric. Posted on 15 Oct ’09. Filed under Events, Main. Tagged Animation, Exhibit, Experimental, Kyoto, Video. No comments.

We are having our Open Studio Show for all the Master’s Program students at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. Please come and see my animation, “Sparks”, in room F202. The show goes from October 15th(Thru) to October 19th(Mon), from 11:00am to 7:00pm.

Peace Show

Written by eric. Posted on 25 Aug ’09. Filed under Main. Tagged Animation, Experimental, Japan, Sketch. 4 Comments.

These are some preliminary sketches, studies and motion doodles for our Peace exhibit in October. This is a joint project between Yasu Suzuka, Judy Umana, Rulo.cl and myself. The theme is Peace, however our idea is about how easily peace can be broken through distraction. Our professor Suzuka Sensei has become the character for this [...]

Sparks, work in progress

Written by eric. Posted on 1 May ’09. Filed under Main. Tagged Animation, Cinema, Journal. 1 Comment.

If the lights are out, it's because I'm in the basement working. Yep, a lot has happened since my last post. To give you a glimpse into my universe...

Hiroshima 2008 Animation Festival

Written by eric. Posted on 27 Sep ’08. Filed under Main. Tagged Animation, Festival, Japan, Journal. No comments.

The Hiroshima Animation festival was great, as well as being a bit of a blur. It was interesting seeing so many animation, over 200, during the four days that I was there. There was a variety of work from all over the world, although there seemed to be a larger number of work from Eastern [...]