Nothing Beats a Buck and a Duck

Ducks Don't Play Tennis from Calixto Ortiz on Vimeo.

Animation Project 3. After today's critique I now see some changes that should be made, otherwise it was pretty well received. I tried to get more cartoony with it and I think the class really responded to it (especially since no one really does too cartoony animations in class). I mean, I'm no John K. but I'm still learning.

I do feel like I put a lot more personality into the duck when compared to my other projects. And that's probably why it is working better.

My arm is feels so drained from drawing so much, but still we press on (only 1 month and 1 day left....)

It's Hammer Time!

(3 hours of traffic for ten minutes of beer floats--SO worth it!)

Birthday shenanigans went very well.
Midnight Pho in Santa Ana -> Sleep in Ontario -> Work in Walnut ->Beer Floats in West L.A. -> BBQ Dinner in Chino Hills -> Drinks in Pomona

Good times & great company.

Rough animation pencil test for character animation project 2.

Senorismo Contra El High Strike from Calixto Ortiz on Vimeo.

I'm probably going to make my next animation half as long--I don't have time for all this drawing!
Spring break soon.
(Graduation soon after!)

And on that note, I have a painting to--erm--paint!

Later animators.

Animtion Repostation

Vimeo was suggested to me by a colleague for posting videos and is a much better alternative to youtube.

The animation isn't changed (although it still could use a little tweaking...)

Maurice the Flying Kid from Calixto Ortiz on Vimeo.

Oh Yeah--Sometimes I Animate...

Here's an animation I did for school.
Assignment: animate a character putting on a rain coat and boots

This was a doodle in my sketchbook that inspired it.
So I ran with it:

p.s. the media compressor for Blogger sucks.

The Good. The Bad. The Ugly.

This film feels like it will be the death of me. I still don't really have a title for it... I'm not really good at naming things anyways (*note lame blog title that is pending yet another name change)

Good news: Animating is actually kinda sorta maybe possibly a little fun. Go figure.
Bad news: I suck at it!!! :(
Ugly news:

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