tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72258975616987173012011-07-28T11:37:51.057-07:00Exactly...Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-58989621698584255492009-02-12T23:52:00.000-08:002009-02-15T17:26:51.066-08:00

I was really inspired by Decembers 11 Second Club audio clip and was planning on doing an animation to it. Turns out the month of December was very busy -- as always, and I didn't have time to animate my idea. I was looking through my sketchbook and I decided to time it out to the audio and post it anyways. Doing these thumbnails and timing it out to the audio is a huge time saver! It makes you

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-66503095428088314042008-10-21T18:54:00.001-07:002008-10-21T18:54:54.374-07:00

ALL done with Animation Mentor! Here is my AM Progress reel showing every piece I did while attending the school from newest to oldest: AM Progress Reel - Jess Morris from Jess Morris on Vimeo.

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-23617336380922487622008-09-16T18:00:00.000-07:002008-09-16T18:08:43.408-07:00

Update of my Short Film, first pass Polish...

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-18137569543275582212008-08-20T00:03:00.000-07:002008-08-20T00:28:59.813-07:00

Here is an update of my short film!

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-47492624420896871892008-07-28T00:33:00.000-07:002008-07-28T00:51:49.807-07:00

Here is an update on my short film! What you are looking at is my short film in the Blocking Stage. This is when I make all of my acting decisions. After this stage is called the Blocking Plus stage. In this stage I break down the blocking I already have and start to add overlap, anticipation, etc. Pretty much anything that helps to describe the motion and make it believable. Next stage is Polish

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-72846486406712823902008-06-05T21:53:00.000-07:002008-12-07T14:39:28.281-08:00

New Video Coming soon - need to replace old oneThis is the layout for my short film! This is an important step because this stage is setting up the whole film. The main thing to focus on at the Layout stage is cameras and placement of characters with in the scene. It is also invaluable to add the important key poses that will help tell the story.

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-65506245130445374012008-06-01T12:42:00.000-07:002008-06-05T22:18:37.839-07:00

Here is my animatic for my short film! An animatic is taking the storyboads and puttling them together to get a better idea of what the flim might look like. You get a good idea of the timing at this stage and see if things are working the way you want them to. A lot of issues can be solved at this point.

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-28279914903444628172008-04-15T12:49:00.000-07:002008-04-15T12:54:04.287-07:00

Still not finished, but here is an update! I have worked in the last of my mentors notes form last term and I have swapped out the characters for the 'in-character' textured and clothed models.

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-764003387164731532008-04-03T00:50:00.000-07:002008-04-15T13:12:36.332-07:00

This is my first week of Class 5 and for those of you who don't know, Class 5 at Animation Mentor is coming up with the story for your short. You then illustrate the idea, make an animatic and complete layout in Maya by the end of the term. SO for the past six months I have been jotting down ideas in a little brown notebook that hasn't left my side. I didn't realize how many ideas I had until I

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-26521301737512136762008-03-25T00:33:00.001-07:002008-03-25T01:04:05.307-07:00

Still not polishing, but you have to work certain things out before you get to that point. I am ALMOST happy with what I am seeing, just a couple of things some friends and my mentor Dave Burgess pointed out that I am going to fix up and then on to polishing!

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I am supposed to be done polishing by this point for my deadline at school, but I had to take the extra time to really be satisfied with my blocking. Which I am now! Just a couple things to flesh out and I am on to polish, then facial animation. I really love how the girl is driving the scene and the guy is totally confused. I hope the emotions are reading!

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-82165139884850416932008-02-24T22:58:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:52:56.526-07:00

Here is my blocking plus. I have made some changes to the acting and also added some more keys to smooth the movements out. The mouth is also blocked out to get some kind of idea what that will be looking like. I also took the first two shots into 1st Pass Polish. I am happy with my progress and how it is looking so far. It will be interesting to see how this shot looks in a couple of weeks!

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-32838971899233264372008-02-20T22:42:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:49:32.959-07:00

These are expressions I took from photo to 3D:

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-68045064830305007112008-02-15T21:10:00.001-08:002008-03-09T22:53:23.912-07:00

My next AM assignment is a 2 character dialogue shot. I found some great lines and I narrowed it down to this one. I really like it, it's been a lot of fun so far! I think the contrast in characters is really great and the confusion and slap is hilarious!This is my Layout Pass: Here is my animatic/thumbs I did before my 3D version: and thumbnails:

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-49479369637336686792008-02-12T13:31:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:53:53.908-07:00

I did this piece last weekend as kind of a skill-speed piece. I wanted to see what I could do in a limited amount of time. I am really happy with it! Here it is...

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-45528006261248529282008-01-20T01:29:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:54:30.556-07:00

Here is my update of FLAMES...I worked on the body animation some more and also put in the eye/brow animation. Not finished, but getting closer!

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-9071220857193530592008-01-15T17:00:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:54:59.312-07:00

These sketches are a study I did for the face animation for my FLAMES animation. I had a lot of fun acting it out and figuring out where to put the shapes. AND I have fun drawing again! I need to get back into it! This is the blocked out version of my face animation. This version is to see if the basic shapes and timing is working.

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-87791221797929919172008-01-15T16:41:00.000-08:002008-01-15T17:15:13.937-08:00

This is my Animation Mentor school reel. Pretty much everything I have done outside of work in the past year is on this reel.

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-32548987948531094342007-11-10T22:32:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:34:27.742-07:00

Planning sketches for FLAMES:

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-91927414984955951192007-05-07T22:27:00.000-07:002008-03-09T22:30:43.027-07:00

Planning sketches for my Jump assignment:

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-89444672186596703362007-04-09T22:21:00.000-07:002008-03-09T22:23:40.676-07:00

Here is my planning sketches for the 180 turn around:

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-44582192026899251772007-04-01T19:04:00.000-07:002008-03-11T19:08:00.389-07:00

Here I explored some possibilities for my personality walk cycle:

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-32217988939895346472007-03-29T22:11:00.000-07:002008-03-09T22:19:06.157-07:00

Here are my sketches for strength:Here is my 3D pose:

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-86177179899417464692007-03-23T19:00:00.000-07:002008-03-11T19:03:35.908-07:00

Here are my sketches for this weeks expression Balance:And here is the 3D Pose:

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-16449222713130703012007-02-21T12:30:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:01:04.184-07:00

Here are some planning sketches for two different assignments. The first one you see if for a ball with one leg that jumps across the screen. The bottom sketches are planning for a ball with a tail (kind of like a squirrel) jumping across the screen.

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-36521358196879135312007-02-15T12:38:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:55:48.593-07:00

Here is my planning for a pendulum that moves around in a figure 8. It was fun figuring out how direction and speed can effect the pendulum.

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-50585624231337669132007-02-09T22:03:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:07:37.109-07:00

Here is my planning sketch for the ball course:

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-46569611174644982072007-02-07T12:45:00.001-08:002008-03-09T21:59:26.738-07:00

Here are my sketches for devastation:And here is my 3D pose:

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Here are my planning sketches for a light and heavy ball and how they react differently when bouncing and contacting other objects.

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-28443551106867250232007-01-21T22:25:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:08:06.797-07:00

Here is my planning for a bouncing ball. It's harder then it looks!

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-58684688660170810672007-01-20T23:44:00.000-08:002008-03-09T21:53:37.317-07:00

This weeks expression is: ExcitedAnd here is the 3D pose:

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-19993994238926066872007-01-20T22:23:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:56:34.048-07:00

Here is Stu posed out telling a story.

Jess Morrisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225897561698717301.post-1668673117913957322007-01-20T16:50:00.000-08:002008-03-09T22:57:13.593-07:00

These are some sketches and silhouettes I did of, what I thought, were some interesting poses.

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