Mitch's Animation Anxiety Attacks

Jeez I haven't been on here in ages. I should upload my next project here :)

Anyways I just thought I'd wish all the 2010 2nd years good luck :)

ALSO I MADE YOU ALL A PICTURE!

Gather 'round children! Let me tell you a tale about a teenager fresh out of highschool. (well, he left highschool early to chase his dream of art and cartoons)... STILL, He was convinced that no matter how good you were at drawing or how good you were at writing stories, everyone out there has amazing potential hidden within their imagination. So he spent a few weeks interviewing many people, Friends and Family alike, and asked them about their (dream) alternative personas.
Some answered straight away, and went on about fantastic super heroes, each with imaginative powers, each with their own dash of unique flavour to them. Others he interviewed, took longer to answer, or were too serious to answer, but eventually came up with amazing stories. The longer they talked about it, the more enthusiastic they seemed towards his question. Fantasies were re-opened from their childhoods, and as the teenage boy was writing all this down in his book he realised a unique and priceless treasure was forming together.

He spent weeks looking over everyones dreams, something so surreal and inspiring, and eventually saw a circle of purpose behind these notes. They had collectively created an ecosystem of magic. So he started to write a story, inspired by this collection of dreams.


4 years later and I'm still slaving away over this idea... lol :(
But the more I think about it, the deeper the story becomes, so I'm determined to stick with it.

I'm putting together some character design concepts, and I'll keep everyone updated on my Blog.


Lee and Archie by ~Ludichrist on deviantART

Do you wanna know by ~Ludichrist on deviantART

Something I made in celebration of my new Cintiq.

GOD its nice to finally make something in my spare time. I love working at Krome, but it certainly doesn't allow much time for my own endeavors.

-Just got smacked over the head with the Reality-Hammer-

I have much, much more work to do on this little child of mine, but for now this will have to do.

I would like to add both run and walk cycles, and the old 'lifting the heavy object'

Also, I'm considering converting the Robin Hood Dialogue into 3D

anyways enjoy!

Games Showreel unfinished from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

A very short animation of a guy warming up to a battle stance. I had fun making the sword and shield :D

katana kid from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

I'm working on 3 stages of sword swings at the moment, so you'll be seeing some more from me by the end of the week :)

So I've finally finished my dialogue piece as far as I can at the moment without losing track of other assignments.

but ultimately its unfinished and I'd like to work more on it in the future.
Maybe even make it 3D in the near future.


MASTER ROBIN by ~Ludichrist on deviantART

Also, GOD I miss the Animaniacs... Nice snappy animation to music

This is a perfect example of economic animating... OR a combination and laziness that resulted in me having to cut down on complicated scenes... either way you look at it, this is my experimental



I'll probably work on it some more afterwards but more assignments are yelling at me to finish them!


Also for those who haven't seen it yet, I've got a youtube link to a NEW proper trailer of Toy Story 3

I'd have put the embedded version onto my blog but it isn't allowed for some annoying reason

Robin grew some nice boobs from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

I'd really like some feed back on my robin hood animation here before I continue on only to find that I've got to go back and delete like 50 frames :P Also I'd like to point out for SOME annoying reason the sound seems SLIGHTLY out of sync... this is not the case, I don't know what vimeo did to my file.

aaand this is a nice collection of my work so far

progression show reel from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

Loading part 1 by ~Ludichrist on deviantART

Ever wondered what emotions a game character would be going through while the computer was trying to load him?

in other news here is some Fan Art as a hats off to those wonderful creators behind the Meet The Spy animation.

I can see by ~Ludichrist on deviantART

Blame this flash on kuru for making me feel insecure about my disability. -hides in shame-

Nar I'm quite happy with who I am and this is a nice little attempt at explaining why :)

Nathan and I had an effing great time making this ad. I hope you guys enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it :D

The girls showed me this one at tafe the other day and its far too good to NOT post it on my blog.



and to all the girls out there, when you find sex toys in your guys pants, remember, it can always be worse... WAY worse.

Hey just thought I'd give a shout out to anyone who isn't aware of it already. But Deviant Art has just introduced to the world their new PortFolio system which keeps all your artwork and animation in a profession manner without all clients having to look at all your artwork and having to put up with all the other silly myspace-esque crepe "thats french for crap" that you see on deviant art all the time.

It's completely free, user friendly and you can hold up to 100 of your best work which is a sweet deal for a free internet space. It also has a spot for you to upload your resume for interested employers who know how to use the interbutts... I'd say its the best free online portfolio system I've come across... well I've only come across the one but thats besides the point.

this is a link here that will help you find your way

http://news.deviantart.com/article/86515/

PS I'VE GOT A BUTTON/LINK TOP RIGHT OF THE SCREEN FOR MY PORTFOLIO.

Now let me sleep everyone GOSH!

Once in an every so occuring part of my life I drop my flash and maya for a bit of old pacer and art pad for some good old fasion drawing. Looking around for some inspiration my eyes find the two most dedicated illustrators in the room. With their permission I drew up a little scene with their favourite OCs 'Original Characters' in action.

I'd like to think I pushed myself a little more than usual to see how things could look and I'm happy with the outcome.

Also on the animation side of things I'm teaming up with Nathan to work on a piece of advertising, trying to sell gym membership to couch potatoes. Hilarity WILL be a factor in this equasion.

It's time to say goodbye to another fantastic months worth of holidays of partying and animation... and just going back to plain old animation for the next 4 months or so. The Mitch in me is saying I had an awesome time, but the Mian "mitch/ian hibrid" in me is saying I could have done a turd load more animation.

Having said that, I regret nothing, EAPS were made, friends held hands and were merry. Maya add ons were explored and some people found love, and simulataneously some cried, but HEY what are parties for?

looking forward to coming back to tafe :)



Here's to hang overs that continue to last for more than 2 days :)

Click to Bounce

And this is a work in progress for my second EAP using the TweenMachine add on

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Working on some animations using a new tool for maya Ian showed me called Tween Machine, it can me found here :)

Its just a little ball I made in maya, jumping for joy.

Will be updating this post with more animations later on.

Many many many many hours went into this ad. I hope greencross is very happy with it.

After a quick meeting this morning we came up with the name Flash n Burn studios to represent us. Perhaps a little wanky in its approach, but that is the majority of our group anyway. For anyone who wants to download a high definition version of this video, you'll need a deviant art login, and you'll find it in my dA gallery

I couldn't help but put this on my blog as a possible great source of audio to animate to later on, it just has SO much potential for action. I was reading a post on animation mentor about getting out of the seat, and acting your scenes standing up. NOW, Sir Ian Mckellen sold that entire performance sitting, I can only imagine what it would look like if he were standing... and a tad more "3D animated"
Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian, ACTION, WIZARD! YOU SHALL NOT PASS, cut, Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian.

Hey all, Just posting a rough of the first part of my Dua EAPS 02 and 03 of both throwing and catching a ball.

Open for change.

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The holidays are coming up as everyone would be aware of. so I've stolen Ian's student challenge and turned it into a giant image to keep on your computer desktop at home as a checklist to keep everyone occupied over the holidays. and by stolen I really mean giving Ian a second voice in making sure people get the idea in their heads.

I know alot of us are doing naratives for our end of year assignment but lets be honest when I say it wont land us a job compaired to handing in a show-reel with some of these small potential animation scenes.

If one could manage to cover all of these by this time next year, they would have greater odds landing this job.

I hope everyone considers this.

peace.