sketchbook dump

woooha... summer is flying, and I am busy at work most of the time.... so hopefully I'll have some new stuff to post soon... meanwhile I scanned some sketchbook pages, from the last days of school and some airport adventures.... thanks for stopping by!

wrapping up

That's it! 2 more classes and we're off for the summer! It has been an amazing year, but I am definitely ready to go home for a bit and recharge :)
This will probably be the last post for the semester (we'll see...) but I have lots of plans for the summer, and I'll try to post as much as I can. These images, are part of a project I've been working on for my concept development class.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great summer everyone!!!

-Avner

shockheaded peter

trying to squeeze some personal work between school assignments :) these new character designs I'm working on, trying to redesign the world of this great old children book.

The year is almost over!!
Just finished our major animation assignment for the semester (with Marcelo, the dude from the previous post)... tweaking some stuff and will upload soon.
meanwhile, some random sketchbook pages :)
Thanks for visiting!

Marcelo

Hey guys

here, is Marcelo, my character for our final animation project for the semester.

satyrs and nymphs

What goes around comes around

So I really didn't intend to post this at first. This Linux penguin was our first modeling assignment last semester here at Ringling. Since everyone had to model the exact same thing, I didn't think it will be too interesting to share.



but then I recalled this one project I did back in the good old high school days. As part of an environmental art project I cast 100 plaster penguins. every day I would move all of them around campus, forming different arrays. It;s funny how our life circles interweave, since now, almost 7 years later I'm back to dealing with penguins (not only that; when I looked at the pictures again I noticed that the girl in one of them has the Linux penguin popping out of her bag! what are the odds??)







Anyway, hope you'' enjoy this, something a bit different than usual, while I'm working on some new projects that' hopefully I'll be able to share soon.

Take care,

Avner

P.s - The title screen for my 3D penguin is of course an homage to the brilliant film "surf's up" if you haven't seen it, it's a must!

LipSync

This is a lip sync test I did for my traditional animation class this semester. There are so may things I wish I had time to fix, and maybe I will in the future.. who knows....
It was a lot of fun to work on and I definitely learned a lot from it. so... here it is!
the sound clip, is Gandalf from Lord of the Rings of course :)



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some of the designs I did for a 3D animation project I'll be working on next semester

So Ringling is closed, and there are no scanners available :(
Untill I'll find a place to scan, I'll be posting some stuff I have on my computer from this semester.

Meet Kambiz

Hey everybody. Quite hard to believe, but the first semester of school has passed! These last couple of month were pretty intense, but I had so much fun, and truly feel like I learned a lot. that being said I'm really happy winter break is here! have a lot of plans for this one, so hopefully I'll have a lot of new stuff to show by the end of it.



The dude above is Kambiz. He is a character I designed for our foirst character animation assignment (which was a few excercises in body mechanics, with a character who doesn't have hands). click on the link below to check it out... the file is about 30mb so you might want to right Click and "save target as..."

CLICK ME

hope you all have a great break and happy holidays

Avner

sketchin....

just some sketches I did recently...
More Animation soon!

More Animation!

Here are two cycles I did in traditional animation class this semester.
We suppose to start a 3D walk cycle soon, so stay tuned for that as well :)








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Back in business

Hello! wow... I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted... Thanks for all of you who keep checking this page :)
I started my sophomore year at Ringling this August, been super busy... So far everything is going great and I'm really enjoying my animation classes (both traditional and computer animation). Other than that, I've been working on some other projects that hopefully I'll be able to show some results soon.

meanwhile here are two animation shorts from this year

Primitive theater: we had to tell a short story with a character or two, that are basically no more than a mprimitive shape the emotes.




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The ball bounce was our first assignment in Computer animation:



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So that's it for now... a lot more to come soon.

work...

Hey everybody... I just got back home from a week in Sinai, Egypt... It's an amazing place and has been a great vacation from a busy summer, and I now feel very ready to go back to school... in 19 days I'll be heading back to Sarasota, and I have so much to do before that... I have a lot of work in progress that I hope to get done before school starts... meanwhile, this is a piece I did last week as birthday gift for friends of my parents ... I'm quite happy with it, although I now think I could accent the shadows some more, and in general work on defining the light some more... but, this is just another step in the ladder I guess... I'll be posting some more work really soon.. I hope... thanks!

Lola

My dog is getting old and is enjoying the luxury of sleeping 18 hours a day :)

I've bee busy working on some different projects lately, so meanwhile I guess I'll be posting some sketchbook stuff...

Mantis

This is an illustration I started a while ago and never had a chance to finish... So I took some time last night to tighten it up, and this is what I ended up with. It started as part of a random prompt challenge on a local website, under the title: "Mom! look what I found in the back yard..."

Chris

some color

These are two color sketches following a Japanese drummers show I've seen a few months ago... I'm trying to explore different ways to approach digital painting, so this is an attempt of a more rough expressive look, that I kinda like...

Summer time

Hello! Well, unbelievably my first year at Ringling has passed. Looking back it went so fast, but it was a great year. The last couple of month were really intense, so it's great to be back home and recharge. I haven't updated for quite a while, but now that I have some extra time I'll try to post new stuff quite often. I have a lot of plans for this summer so stay tuned... as for now, here are a few caricatures of my fellow Ringlingers. I love doing these, so this was a nice way warm up and start my summer. hopefully these are recognizable (for the Ringling students among you)... if not, well, I guess it means more practice ;)
Have a great summer everybody!