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Beginning Animation: Pre-production and why it’s important
Story-boarding is the art of making sure issues of timing, cameras and composition are sorted out. These are important decisions to make to ensure the readability of your animation. Remember, a story is no good if nobody can make sense of it. Placing a character into a scene is an art, but the bigger challenge…
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Rotation Orders and Gimbal Locks
This has been picked up directly from a really nice post I found at this blogger’s site: http://thinkanimation.blogspot.com/2007/03/maya-rigging-gimbal-big-no-no.html So the video isn’t attached (and it wasn’t there on the site either)
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Interview – The Occasional Shopper
Oct 2011 Interviewed by The Occasional Shopper: online magazine for the National College of Arts Lahore. Pakistan. Find the story here.
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American Martyr – Clip
This was a short promotional animation commissioned by Armistice Media to accompany a book launch. I worked as a an animator and rotoscope artist on this.
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Commander Safeguard Ep 2
A continuation of the Commander Safeguard series commissioned by P&G Pakistan. I worked as a lead animator, rigging artist and supervised a team of junior animators for secondary characters.
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Shader Recap
Shaders are more commonly known as shading networks, because they rarely ever include one item (node). What a shader network is, is a shading group which has a surface material connected to it. The shading group engine is what’s actually connected to your model, or, more specifically, the shape node of your model (this is…
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A novel approach
Check this out: Read more about this at http://www.behance.net/gallery/DOORS-Installation/471863
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Must-see Animations
Some of these are really popular but I think you’ll get a kick out of the rest! http://machoarts.com/15-amazing-animated-short-films
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Quirky stuff
I added this just because I couldn’t resist. And I think my students are starting to feel this way! Click and enjoy! http://www.devastatingexplosions.com/