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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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

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.