Mitch's Animation Anxiety Attacks

To fully understand this scene taken out of my animated short "Pandora's Charades" there is an inivisble heavy weight boxer in this scene which will become abundantly clear.



Now Youtube as it seems, tends to kill a fair few fps in my animations so I've god a download button top left of my blog for those who want to really have a good look at my EAP

Well I haven't posted much recently. Thats all my bad really, I've been rather swamped with ALOT of greencross work and little time for the more interesting things in life like my end of year assignment. It's coming along nicely and I've almost finished the animatic. For now you'll just have to enjoy an image I put together of my chosen character design for the animation.

peace out Animators!

Infusing Jason Ryans Tutorial on easing in and easing out with Franks direction towards snowboarding, our beans battle it out to see who's the best snowboarder amongst the rest.


R Jeremy Snowboarder from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

I couldn't help but make R Jeremy jiggle at the end.

So. I was the opening piece to a 4-men-1-woman oral presentation. So I thought I'd give people a bit of a show. Sell my idea of great standards in animation to the fellow students of my class. And what better way of elaborating on that then a display of pictures of high standards and quality. But when I show them a whole bunch of slides which looked like they were drawn with my left testicle, I was applauded. Sure I'll take any compliment thrown at me. But I feel like after all the planning of sweet irony, the joke was on me. Should have my intentions been a little more clear? I feel its patronising to explain intellectual humour. I feel alot like Jim Carrey from 'Man on the Moon'

It's Red... It bounces... and it will tear your room a new one if you take it home. will you adopt him today?


Red by ~Ludichrist on deviantART

as I play around with different 3D rigs in maya I think to myself how I'm going to plan out my end of year narrative. I've decided to go with moom, he just looks right for my idea. I'm sure alot of hardcore animatiors will argue that it doesn't matter what the rig looks like so long as the animation is good, but I've been thinking and its not just an animation. It's a short story. And since my story has a fair bit of slap-stick humour involved I thought it would be appropriate to use a cartoony looking character.

Imagine if you will, a game of charades that goes out of control. you draw a card, it tells you to act out a scene, but as you begin to express to the others what your trying to act out, it becomes an invisable reality. You lose control of the situation but it most certainly puts the message across. whether that message is juggling chain-saws, stepping in the ring with a heavy weight boxer, or even tap-dancing through a mine field. But just like any looney-tunes-esque short cartoon, the characters will be a-ok by the end of the film no matter how many times they blow up.

but the story is still a work in progress.

for anyone who wanted to see the 25 fps version of my end of year maya piece, here it is :) enjoy


Smooth casualties from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

hahah I also noticed that my guy in the thumbnail looks like someone from the 1950's expressing a pose of mild annoyance...

Margery! Those children are stealing my head piece from my window-wil again! Douw! *shakes fists*

Animating in 3D by ~Ludichrist on deviantART


Think out side the Box by ~Ludichrist on deviantART


TransFORM by ~Ludichrist on deviantART



Enjoy people

Civillian Casualties FTW by ~Ludichrist on deviantART

Just a nice little link for those who wanted to check out where I am with my end-of-year-assignment. Y'all have a good one.

Oriental Dusk by ~Ludichrist on deviantART

Well, just when you though all bad things happen in 3, of course more crap has to happen in my life, so finally I manage to get home saturday evening after not being able to sleep ONE whole damn night in my bed all holidays since tafe finished and I've been slaving over assignments japanese cram style. Who ever bothers to read this blog, I hope you enjoy it :)

From a classroom cliche' to an internet time waster. Enjoy the Ninja, I'll be uploading the version with sound soon.

For all those who are interested, this is my walk cycle for Jane and Terry's Classes. i know, I kinda went over the top, but this is the one I've made for Deviant Art because they don't allow anything under 10 seconds. so I thought I'd dress it up.


Anyways, catch you all later.

Well, being a whole week behind with this piece I managed to make it as nice as possible in one freaken lesson. I hope you guys like it as much as I tried not to fail with it. if that makes any sence.


Old Gregg - Man Or Fish? from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

I'd like to thank those who where nice enough to answer my Fan Art question "what is Fan Art". I'd like to reserve a special thanx to those five, who gave a proper answer too :). The figures say that the majority of people who voted on my poll agree that Fan Art is the physical manifestation of Sparta. I'd love to believe that as well, but alas, acid died out in the mid 90's so this can't be the case. So there we have it, Fan Art is a love for a specific type of artwork.

In other news, Crazed mad men without arms have been terrorising various computers at southbank. I've managed to capture one of them reaking havok on film.

Some scenes may frighten some small children and sexually inadequate teens. Viewer discretion is advised.


Disabled High Jump from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

Hey everyone. I know whats your thinking. whats that underneath Mitch's arm, and is he going to share it with the rest of the class? I will answer both right now.


The Happy Little Worm from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

and yes.

Ok so my pride was shot with this one. Ian was like... MAKE A TREE FALL. DON'T WORRY ABOUT TRYING TOO HARD BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME... Yes thats right... he yelled it, with extream capital letters. Anyways, I took this as a personal challenge to prove him wrong. Long story short, I kinda finished about an hour after everyone else was finished. Afterwards Ian took me aside and told me, it is not the tree that I must make fall... but it is me... I must find my inner Tree. Well not exactly in those words, but if you are reading this Ian you will probably agree with me that it's a pretty good analogy for what you said.

So without further adu. The Falling Tree. *curtains open*


Falling Tree from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

There's nothing more sexy than treating yourself to the eye candy that is Fish-Ball...

Half Ball and half Fish, some say it's a 70/30 mix, either way He's one fishy Bastard


Epileptic Fish-Ball from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.

But I wont make a video about Meatloafs head exploding... Wait... Never mind.. Mitch Delivers.


I Would Do Anything For Love from Mitchell Druce on Vimeo.