Happy New Year!

Hey all! Happy New Year! I hope 2010 brings everyone great things! :D

2009 was a good year, considering. It had its ups and downs but overall it was good! Finished Ringling, came to LA, got some work in film, got my facebook account hacked this morning..All fun stuff! ;) I just hope 2010 will be much better! :D

I thought I would post a work in progress of a little exercise I've been working on my free time. It is some dialogue from Kill Bill, and I am using Greg Peltz's KnockOut Model (Watch his film here!) Thanks a lot for letting me use her, Greg! It is still a work in progress, but I did promise some kind of update before the year was over! ;)




Alvin and The Chipmunks 2 is in theaters now! It is pretty darn cool seeing kids laugh at the movie and people clap at the end. :) All that hard work was worth it!

Well, Happy New Year! Go celebrate, be safe, and be with your loved ones! See you in 2010!

Animation Block Party!

Whoa! Hey guys and gals! Just thought I would post an update! :]

My film, Cat's Meow, has been accepted into the Animation Block Party! ( http://animationblock.com/summerfest09/ )
If you are in Brooklyn the weekend of July 24th-26th, be sure to drop by if you want to watch Cat's Meow on the big screen, as well as other awesome animated shorts! It will be a blast!

http://animationblock.com/summerfest09/
You can get tickets here, too!

CTN Animation Expo!

Hey guys! I will be going to the CTN Animation expo this November in Burbank, CA! I thought I'd help spread the word! ;)



Hope to see you all there!

Cat's Meow is up!

Hey y'all!

I just posted my short film on my website! If you want to check it out, here's the link!

http://www.jorgegarciaart.com/thesis.html

or youtube at...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUgRif7JRc

:)

Cat's Meow trailer!

Hey guys!

Head on over to
http://www.catsmeow-themovie.com/
or
http://jorgegarciaart.com/ (and click on THESIS)
to take a look of a little trailer I put together for my film!

It's...epic to say the least.

:)

2D Water!

x-posted at www.catsmeow-themovie.com

For my short I required water effects... I decided to draw the water traditionally and then color and comp it onto my shot using Photoshop and Shake. It's been a learning experience and I owe a lot of it to Mr Gary Schumer, who has been my 2D Water FX mentor here at Ringling! Here is the cleaned up animation, all on 1's.



It was really fun to make it... And I learned a lot thanks to Gary. It felt great to get on the good old animation desk and flip some pages once more...

Short Film preview!

Cross-posted on www.CatsMeow-TheMovie.com!




Here's some screen from the short... Still WIP of course!

I'm baaaack!

Did I forget I had a blog???

Apparently! ;)

I've been quite busy working on my short film during my senior year of Ringling. I do have tons of stuff to post related to that, but I want to edit it and make sure I am not giving any big spoilers... So for now, just a small promotional image of sorts!



It has been a blast, and I have 30 more days to finish and go render it... so it's back to work for me!

Holy moley, another long due update!!!!

Hello ladies and gentlemen!

I apologize for the long silence. I am sure the 2 people who read my blog have forgotten about it already...but I thought I'd post a smallish update today.

I've been busy with my senior thesis, and have been working hard animating this crazy crazy story of a cat and her owner ( http://meowthesis.blogspot.com/ under construction ). While I can't share story details, I can finally show the final models with textures, and a small animation test for each of my characters, which sadly I could only spend 2 days doing... (Animating the kitty was fun! She's like a Pokemon there...)

Photobucket videos with Quicktime links below!



Cat's Meow Character Turnarounds

Click for Quicktime!


Cat's Meow Blendshape Test

Click for Quicktime!

Streaming Reel

Yay! I should have done this sooner.



The sound seems to be a bit off sync but... :)

Lip Sync Project

And here be my latest finished project...

Clicky me!

Crits and Comments much appreciated! :)

Push Pull WIP

Thought I'd post an animation update..it's been a while!
There's a buncha oddles stuff I'd like to fix..especially the lazy eye, but it'll have to wait a bit while I finish another project that's creeping up on us... I should have this one and my In Out fixed before New Years though!

I'm happy with it, and I'm discovering my workflow..but there's still much more to learn and discover.

Without further ado... ;p

Clicky me!

Any comments and crits are greatly appreciated! :D I'm hungry for knowledgeeeeeee~...

Finally...animation update!

Hey guys!

Here's my In Out submission for my CA class. I've got a lotta stuff to fix, but it'll have to wait for thanksgiving break! :)

Any comments and crits are appreciated!

Clicky me!

Old Stuff Repost!

I cleaned out my webspace and organized my files a little.. So I thought I'd repost some of my old traditional animation work here for fun's sake. And testing out Google Video again. If it keeps being stupid Ill just post quicktime links.

Yay!

Posted in chronological order... I think.

The Sunny and The Moonie... Fini!

Well, I believe it is done! I'm pretty happy with it..but there's always something new to fix! x.x



Trying out Google Video too. Test test. Blog!