Here's is my final shot for this last semester. The advanced acting class was pretty pretty brutal, and I wasn't very happy with the first shot that I did in it, but think that this latest one is definitely my best so far. This shot took my two months to do. Enjoy!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Day at the Beach
This last Monday we decided that we would take the day as a family and go the Cannon Beach, since it looked to be the last nice day of the summer. We'd never had a chance to take Coen to the beach before, so we were looking forward to seeing what he thought of it. It took a little getting used to, but once he got over the whole water and sand thing, he loved it! Definitely a very fun day all around.
I just finished up my fourth out of six semesters at Animation Mentor. Only one project left, and that's my short film. That will take the next six months or so to finish, so it's going to be a lot of work. I've got some finishing touches to put onto the shot I've been working on for the last two months and then I'll post it here hopefully this week.
I just finished up my fourth out of six semesters at Animation Mentor. Only one project left, and that's my short film. That will take the next six months or so to finish, so it's going to be a lot of work. I've got some finishing touches to put onto the shot I've been working on for the last two months and then I'll post it here hopefully this week.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Did you check him, Cory?
Well, after three months of work, my first dialog shot is complete. If you're curious, the sound clip is from a Twilight Zone episode. It's definitely been a lot of fun getting to work with this character. He's called Bishop. The faceless one from previous animations was Stewie. Finally getting control over the face has been really fun. This project felt like mostly practice though, so I'm looking forward to hopefully taking it up a notch with the next shot. The next one will be a definite challenge. We have the rest of the semester to complete it, or about 8 weeks. It's a two man dialog shot, so it's about twice and much work with a month less of time, but I'm sure it's going to be a blast. Right now I'm just watching lots of movies trying to find the perfect clip for it. So I guess I'll have more to show you all in about two months then. That will actually be my last regular assignment at animation mentor. The final 6 months will be spent working on my short film, which I'm very much looking forward too.
-Nathan
-Nathan
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
It's a big one
Well, it been quite some time since I've written an update. We've been pretty busy these last few months. Right now I'm on a one week break between semesters so I thought I'd take advantage of the time and put up a post.
This last semester went very well. My mentor, Scott Carrol, was awesome. I really learned a lot. We spent the last two months working on a 10 second shot with dialog. The character we're using is called Bishop, and he has fingers and a face. He's a lot more complicated than the other simple characters you've seen me using. I'm afraid I don't have any finished animation to show off at the moment thought because we've still got another month to work on the shot this next semester. That whole time will be spent just working on the facial animation for this shot. I'm really looking forward to that and can't wait to get started.
School isn't the only reason that we've been busy however. At the end of May my (Nathan's) parents flew in from Mongolia, and my brother, who just graduated from NTBI, flew out from Wisconsin. They were here for around 3 weeks. It was really wonderful to have everyone here, especially since we hadn't seen them in a year and half. They were obviously excited to get to see their grandson again. The last time they saw him he was only a few weeks old. Needless to say he's grown a lot since then.
Youth group is over the for the summer, and will start back up this fall. It's nice to have a little break to recharge a bit, but I do miss the fellowship on Wednesday nights.
Jen and I celebrated our 3 wedding anniversary this month! It's really hard to believe that it's been that long. It's truly been a wonderful time. I really can't imagine life without her anymore. I don't know how I made it through the first 20 years. :) To celebrate we went down to Depot Bay on the Oregon coast and stayed in a bed and breakfast for the weekend.
The Hesselmans watched Coen so we were able to just relax while we were down there. It was really refreshing. We down to the beach and did some exploring along there.
We also visited the sea lion caves. They're the largest in the world apparently.
On our way back we stopped at the Aero Space Museum. I hadn't even realized that it was there. I love planes and space ships, so that was a blast. The coolest thing to me though was the fact that they actually have the spruce goose at this museum. It the worlds largest wooden plane. It was made in 1947 and only flew once. Its size is incredibly impressive in and of itself, but the fact that it's all wood is even more amazing.
So that's been our last month or so.
Oh, and Coen got his first hair cut. :)
-Nathan, Jen, and Coen
This last semester went very well. My mentor, Scott Carrol, was awesome. I really learned a lot. We spent the last two months working on a 10 second shot with dialog. The character we're using is called Bishop, and he has fingers and a face. He's a lot more complicated than the other simple characters you've seen me using. I'm afraid I don't have any finished animation to show off at the moment thought because we've still got another month to work on the shot this next semester. That whole time will be spent just working on the facial animation for this shot. I'm really looking forward to that and can't wait to get started.
School isn't the only reason that we've been busy however. At the end of May my (Nathan's) parents flew in from Mongolia, and my brother, who just graduated from NTBI, flew out from Wisconsin. They were here for around 3 weeks. It was really wonderful to have everyone here, especially since we hadn't seen them in a year and half. They were obviously excited to get to see their grandson again. The last time they saw him he was only a few weeks old. Needless to say he's grown a lot since then.
Youth group is over the for the summer, and will start back up this fall. It's nice to have a little break to recharge a bit, but I do miss the fellowship on Wednesday nights.
Jen and I celebrated our 3 wedding anniversary this month! It's really hard to believe that it's been that long. It's truly been a wonderful time. I really can't imagine life without her anymore. I don't know how I made it through the first 20 years. :) To celebrate we went down to Depot Bay on the Oregon coast and stayed in a bed and breakfast for the weekend.
The Hesselmans watched Coen so we were able to just relax while we were down there. It was really refreshing. We down to the beach and did some exploring along there.
We also visited the sea lion caves. They're the largest in the world apparently.
On our way back we stopped at the Aero Space Museum. I hadn't even realized that it was there. I love planes and space ships, so that was a blast. The coolest thing to me though was the fact that they actually have the spruce goose at this museum. It the worlds largest wooden plane. It was made in 1947 and only flew once. Its size is incredibly impressive in and of itself, but the fact that it's all wood is even more amazing.
So that's been our last month or so.
Oh, and Coen got his first hair cut. :)
-Nathan, Jen, and Coen
Monday, May 12, 2008
Butterfly Duel
I just finished up my first animation of the semester. This is the introduction to acting class, so this first one is a pantomime acting shot. This will be the last animation I post for about the next 3 months, which is how long it's going to take to finish up the next animation, which will be much more complicated than the previous ones. We're finally moving into a dialog shot with facial animation and everything. Should be challenging. Anyway, here it is...
-Nathan
-Nathan
Sunday, April 27, 2008
How to Cope with Death
Not much of an update here. Just wanted to post another picture for the grandparents. Poor little Coen has been teething in earnest on and off lately. He's got two molars in and is working on two more. Not fun, for him or us.
I wanted to share a little animation I found that amused me. I'm kind of animation obsessed though, so it doesn't take much. It's not too long, but starts a little slow, so just wait and it gets pretty funny. This animation seems like it should have I Corinthians 15:55 as the subtitle.
-Nathan
I wanted to share a little animation I found that amused me. I'm kind of animation obsessed though, so it doesn't take much. It's not too long, but starts a little slow, so just wait and it gets pretty funny. This animation seems like it should have I Corinthians 15:55 as the subtitle.
-Nathan
Monday, April 14, 2008
Coen in the great outdoors
This last weekend was beautiful. After a very long, gray winter, we finally had some wonderful sunshine and even saw the temperature reach into the 70's. Coen has never really had the chance to experience the outdoors much since he was still too little last summer, we thought we'd take him out onto the lawn. Apparently, he is terrified of grass though, so it was more him trying as hard as he could not to touch the ground than really playing outside. He definitely seemed to like all the sight and sounds and sunshine, however.
-Nathan
-Nathan
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