Naren alias Narayana

Few good Foot Prints!!

Thumbnails

I really enjoyed and did some
quick sketches at local train

Posing & Rendering

Finally(stage01) got into Mentalray-SSS
feel bit happy with my attempts-:)

The great facial rig & textures from Mr.Jason Osipa,
Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation,wonderful guide
for modeling,rigging and for animation too!!(facial)
and I just focus more at Posing & Rendering.
(check out some interesting links
for Mentalray stuffs in the last post)

Details:

A.Maya-Raytraced-Bilnn,Phong,PhongE
with basic lighting(3point:Key,Fill & back light)



B.Maya-MentalRay,FG but no AO(amb.Occ)
with basic lighting(3point:Key,Fill & back light)

C.Maya-MentalRay,FG but no AO(amb.Occ)
with basic lighting(3point:Key,Fill & back light) + more tweaking.

Attitudinal Poses

If we can develop the ability to encapsulate an expression or
attitude in a single drawing(key frame)we have already
reached some distance towards successfully communicating
to our audience.
-------Eric Goldberg

I tried some standing poses with strong attitude(hope!!)
can be more interesting while animating with
holds and moving holds.

The Attitude poses need not to be Extremes keys, always!!!

--------Eric Goldberg

Posing and Staging

pose study of handicapped man.

The strength of our chtr. poses can also be tested by how

Well they read in silhouette!!

CG Golgi's Partner

Facial expression

Download this file and try his site for interesting photograph
with subtle and wonderful expressions.


and he is also a excellent 3D artist.

and this eyes..... facial expression study(Bycycle Thief)

Facial Animation ( I am tired....)

Old one still not bad !!
(I worked on all the area except modeling. I Started the animation started with Body then animated the facial animation (we can do other way around too) straight ahead method)




and I did the voice acting part also !!(very interesting) , once I acted out felt very easy to do the animation.
check this tutorial for lip Sync.http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/lipSync.htm

Hey there !!Test Animation

Recent WIP:Facial Animation


this is still in the refining stage and i think lot more to do!
what do you think!?
Thanks for visiting and posting your valuable comments.

Check this link to get more more exposure in animation(variety)
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/3d__and__animation

Gesture drawings

Sparkling Staging

When I sat down with my sketch pad and start studying

the gags of ” surfsup” movie ,soon I get got into the brilliant staging!

Every frame is nicely constructed and we can find those

interesting ( C& in.C , S&in.S,I,T and etc.) lines of actions in every keys.

thanks for your comments and time.

3D animation,straight away !!!

we all missed the wonderful start with 2D animation(missed to understand the basics of animation)

we all only know to set key or simply move ,rotate and deform ...but that's not enough..
In this seq. it was very clear



that the first one------------------------------- was very flat and not at all interesting!!
and the second one with AP is very interesting ,lively and kind of feeling is there …
but let's not force the APs too much(once we learnt) and all the best.

posing facial expressions

Hi Murugan,
This one is for you...don't be tensed and worried!! like this guys

be happy.

I knew that you are very positive and hardworking pal, and hard work will
definitely pay back.

If your interested to learn more Just try out this one
Mr.Keith's
Animation: Personal Trainer program! (http://www.klangoanimation.com/store/APT_ordering.html)
or
Mr.Keith is also giving vts http://www.klangoanimation.com/store/VTS_SubscriptionPlans.html
but no interactions !!still lot more things about animation ++ can be explored,learned and etc.

and other one is Mr.Jason Ryan
Mr.Jason' VTs at http://www.jasonryananimation.com/
(lot more to learn and "learning is the never ending story")
yet practice only make us like skilled artist.
All the best.

Hey there...

I wanna post the animation which i am doing now ,but have to find the right way!!!

This is the some of the facial expression tried with Boris Rig http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/character_rigs/
...............rough thumbnail sketch

...............the result.......................

give some valuable critiques pls.

Animation = posing and timing

Hai pals...am back!!

and wishing you "All the best for all your attempts".

At this post i would love to share my views on rig(ging)s and posing .

I am trying out some rigs. from http://www.11secondclub.com/resources/

Understanding the controls are big problems!? and we have to very familiar with that controls.

(spend some time to understand the actor and their capabilities)

unfortunately we can’t standardize these due to many factors involved , many different minds

and ect.,also depends on the story to act/perform .

The rigger has to adapt their Skills+ R&D.(It is possible In production pipeline ) sometimes

i too feel little hesitation to try when comparing to animate.

I tried few interesting poses which I admire from the acting greatness Thiru.SivajiGanesan

and many others((long list) (golden age of Tamil Cinema Industry ))with "Max for Maya" rig

a.here is the thumbnail sketch(before posing)

b.Poesed at Maya using Max

c.Lets check out the Silhouettes

I think those poses are telling the story, i am personally happy with my attempts and i really got what i wannted.

Thanks for Peter Starostin and James http://www.bockstyre.com/james/maxformaya/ for the rig

Thanks keith for his VTS ( am getting stronger and stronger)Stick Figure Fundamentals
(also check it out the Keith's stuff and tutorials here)

"Lets take all the good once from this world", yours loving Murali