My VFS Demo Reel

I completely forgot to update this poor little blog...

Here is my final demo reel from VFS - I graduated July 10th :)



I also have a new site where you can see a higher resolution of the demo reel.

I don't expect to update this blog very often in the future... But we'll see what happens.

Christian Bale Rant Animated

This is a small section of Christian Bale's rant on set of the new Terminator movie.
It was done for a challenge on the Spline Doctors blog.

My WIP Showreel

Term 4 is over!

Most of the last term was starting to work on our final demo reel + basic VFX and compositing classes, including the traditional "Spider Assignment" that can be seen on many of VFS graduate's showreels.

This is a collection of some of my work from the first four terms in VFS.

Only two terms left to go... July 2009 here we come :)



QuickTime version here.

Old News

I haven't been updating the blog in a while, and I have some old new stuff to show :)

First of all, the final submission of my baseball exercise:
The editing is a little forced (combining essentially two separate assignments), but I really like how the batter came out.




Another exercise with same old package man (I really like that rig!) is my first attempt at lip sync animation:




Hopefully I will have some new and exciting things to show soon!

Don't Just Stand There

A submission for an After Effects exercise at VFS.

The song is "Honey" by Moby.

This was fun to do! I might add a few moves if I have the time :)

Baseball Pitch

Part 1 of a baseball assignment at school.
The batter is coming soon...

VFS Term 2 Presentation

VFS Term 1 Presentation

This is my presentation for the Term 1 review at VFS.
It contains a collection of my work from classical animation, modeling and 3D animation classes.

Enjoy :)

Unicorn - Done

This is the final version (so far) of the unicorn - colored by my girlfriend :)






The Rhino-Hound:

This is another work I did a few weeks ago for modeling class -
it's not finished but I don't think I will work on it any more.

Unicorn WIP

A work for modeling class - this horse will one day become a beautiful unicorn.

Quick Modeling: A Trash Can

I had to model this beaten up trash can for a project I'm working on.
This was fun! Especially the beating-up part... :)

A Rendering Challenge

I have been neglecting the blog, and actually my 3D work as a whole...
Don't have any real excuse though.

This is a rendering challenge from CGTalk Israel forum -
render a given model of a cheese and knife.

Here's the result I have so far:



I used the following lights and materials.
Lights:
* Area light to simulate a kitchen window.
* Spot light to simulate indoors lighting with hard shadows.
* HDRI image for reflections.

Materials:
* Cheese - Mental ray SSS material, with a noise texture in the specular map.
* Knife - Mental ray DGS material, with maximum glossy and specular values.
* Knife handle - Simple blinn material with a very dense noise for a bump map, eccentricity 0.4 and specular roll off 0.5 to create softer speculars.
* Tray - Blinn material with wood texture.

VFS here I come!

I was accepted to VFS!
I will start studying the 3D Animation and Visual Effects program at June 2008.

I wasn't sure how strict their requirements are,
and I was looking a lot for portfolios that got people into VFS,
but found nothing on the web.

So here it is, for future reference of anyone looking to get into VFS -
my VFS portfolio.


1. Life Drawings
I handed a drawing of my cat, a drawing of a woman's face in the rain,
and a drawing of "Shoot 'Em Up" movie poster (the one with Paul Giamatti).






2. A Wasp Model
This model was done in Maya, and textured with Maya and a little bit of Photoshop.



3. A Walking Lego Man
Modeling, texturing, rigging, and animation was done in Maya.
Compositing was done in After Effects.

Wasp - Final

These are more or less the final images of the wasp - please click on the images to view the full resolution.

It doesn't look completely real yet, but I guess that's about the best I can do without working on in for another week...
So it's time to move on to the next project :)

Wasp Update

The eyes, wings and body are final, except for some hairs I might add later.
The rest (head and legs) still need some work.

Wasp Model

This is a model of a bee / wasp I've done in Maya.

I started it a long time ago and finished it in the last couple of day.
The next step is texturing it. This will be the first time I seriously texture anything so it might take a little time, but I hope it will be done in a couple of days.

After that - back to the Cubies...

Cat, Bear and Woman

Here are some more drawings from the last few days:

Shoot 'Em Up

6B pencil on A4 copy paper.

The reference for this drawing is the poster of the movie "Shoot 'Em Up":

Life Drawing: Face in the Rain

6B pencil on A4 copy paper.

The reference for this drawing is taken from a modeling catalog.

Cubies: Week 8.5

Forgive me blogger, for I have sinned...
It's been more than two weeks since my last update.


I have been called for duty in the IDF for 3 weeks. This is the second of them.
But that's not a good enough reason to stop working, (after all I am still home every evening) and so I did, and I proudly present the next complete scene.
I didn't update much since I was actually working on more of the same: Animating, animating and animating. There isn't much I can say about that :)

This time I did a playblast of two scenes together: first the big Cubie wakes up and then a third Cubie comes into play.
Together it comes to 30 seconds, which is something in which you can start seeing the big picture.

That means in total I have about one minute of action, and I expect the whole movie to take something like 2 minutes - lots of work ahead!



What I have learned the last two weeks is, animating 3 characters takes about 3 times as much as animating one character, and a little more. Not a big surprise there...

Thanks for watching :)