Time for Change!

    It's been 5 years since my life took a different direction, it's nice returning to my roots in 3D.  Might never work in the industry but that's fine.  I've found a useful situation to develop training animations to support my new & old team members with the best training possible.

Figured why stop their and decided to get the old blog rolling again.  Looking at all the old posts certainly made me miss college that's for sure lol, good times. 

Remembering the Old Tools

Quite escape

The Runner

Trench prone

Basic walk with action Rev.4

walk Cycle, and the addition of animation layers to build in the yawn and arm stretch in a non destructive way over top the original walk cycle keys. Simple 3 point lighting scheme no need for FG/GI setup on this one. Lots of yawning during this project. =)

Tools used:
Maya
AfterEffects

backburner( 2 node Render setup )

Trolley Doodles

Something neat about just the backside of the paper with the straight grey tones bleeding through. Also helps to judge where I can use more tone to bring out the depth.

Just doodles, I'd really like to do an animated bg, something simple with a few layers to create a good sense of depth and motion.

Say Cheese!

I Think we've all shared those unimpressed moments at one time or another haha

Northern Ont Diving board!

Challenging myself to add some sense of feeling to the art, and not just a fun pic. Something that was super fun and scary and exciting growing up for me. Wing assisted Cannon Balls! haha

Window Cleaner!

The window cleaner stopped by today! Talk about quality service with a smile! Or at least i was smiling haha

Black Market Numbers

I recently had a fun nostalgic moment when a really great friend passed me a link to a Sesame street youtube video. It was really funny, and really took me back to when I use to watch it after school growing up.

And with out a doubt theirs a bit of Sesame Street to this sketch. haha

Just toying with Rendering markers

Concept for the side project with a live slate. Part of the Nvidia Contest on Cgsociety

New Home Toronto

Settled in to Toronto, job hunting! I'll be posting art shortly

3D Final

3D Final, Escape from Jon on Vimeo.

2D Final complete

2D Final The Balloonist! from Jon on Vimeo.

Final Stages of wrapping up my 3D Final just few more hours of render time left!

2D Final Progress

2D Final Update from Jon on Vimeo.