Animation Talk on PBS

Watch ¡COLORES! June 7, 2013 on PBS.  See more from KNME.

Animation Mentor - Animal & Creatures Master Class 2013 - Term 1 & 2

Completed Animation Mentor Master Class.
Thank you, to my wife, family, and friends for all your support and encouragement. Here are a few animations I've done. I have learned a lot new tips and tricks, and I am excited to apply them to my career. If your an Animator, I highly encourage you to take the Animal & Creature Class.

Time to go to Sleep!

Pirate101 Character Animation - 2013 Summer Showcase

The company I work for KingsIsle, recently released Pirate101. I got the opportunity to work on some Low Poly game characters. These characters were a lot of fun, and challenging to work on with 32 bones total for each character.

KingsIsle Presentation for Virgin Island Kids

I got the opportunity to work out my speech skills, and talk about who I am, what I do, and how did I get into the game industry. I based my speech on the topic of Passion.

Speech Outline

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Hi my name is Kiko
Character Animator
Pointed out all the characters on the wall, my job is to make them come to life.
Walk, Jump, Fight, Die - I acted out this part.

How I got into the industry
I always wanted to have a job I was passionate about.
Who likes to play with toys? "I do"
Playing with toys was my passion.
Action figures / Dinosaur / Legos
Toy Story = Awesome
I wanted to be an animator, choice between film vs games
I love Games.
Art Institute of Houston, graduate Animation.
Continue to improve my animation skills and network my way into the industry.
After 10 years of experience, I love my job.

I showed them animations, and talk about it briefly.
I talked about what happens next in the game pipeline, work together with programers and designers to get it into game.I told them, its satisfying to see your work come to life, and have others you can share it with. I feel good going home.

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Improvements

If I had more time in my speech, I will discuss animation in a Nutshell. And some animation helpful tips and resources.

I would like to talk about Rigging / Ideas / Reference / How to create a pose / How to animate / Press Play.

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Overall I had alot of fun, and this was my break through into KingsIsle to show them I want to represent the company as an animator, and keep on improving my animation skills.

A friend of mine at work "Tony G" found a really cool Maya Timeline for Max users. Its pretty sweet! And makes my timeline on Max look like Maya

http://www.heavenlypictures.hu/maxscript/extendedtimeline/extendedtimeline.php

Stunt Reel is a great place to look for dynamic fight scene, falling mechanics, and bad ass moves.

Reference Flight Study

Starting my 2nd term with Animation Mentor AC master class.

I am tasked with animating a dragon's vanilla flight. This Posting is to write up notes and post cool links that I find on my journey for research.

Links
http://brendanbody.blogspot.com/2010/09/bird-flight-tutorial.html
http://www.brendanbody.co.uk/flight_tutorial/index.html
http://www.flightartists.com/