HELLO. MY NAME IS JOHN MERRICK!

Having to watch too many David Lynch movies to get my mind in the state I need it to be for my next film. I need a break!

STOCHASTICALLY SELF-SIMILAR NON-EUCLIDIAN REPLICATIONN

A guy told me once: "Learn how light bulbs are made and you'll be amazed every time someone turns a light on". (Update: It certainly does not apply for sausages and other animal biproducts)

USC has been succesfully pushing an alliance between film and science. I entered a competition last semester aimed at opening a communication channel between both schools. This is our interpretation of a scientific concept:

 

We got and honorable mention and a prize for best animation. I'm very happy with the result. Hope you like it and get interested in fractals, which is supposed to be the subject of study.

Here I am getting the prize for best animation from professor Richard Weinberg. 

via (http://celebritysc.com/2012/01/26/science-film-competition-celebritysc-winners-of-the-evening/)

A little behind the scenes in the production of this film

Enjoy!

CON EL CORAZON ROTOSCOPIADO.

After 48 hours without sleep I finally finished and shot all 120 drawings (10 seconds) for my rotoscopy assignment.

For those who don't know, Rotoscopy is an animation technique where you trace a video source for movement reference.

FYI: This technique was patented by the Fleischer bros, the same guys that did Betty boop, Popeye and Superman Cartoons.

This is the first time I've been able to do rotoscopy with pen and paper... Over the monitor.

There is still a lot of work to do for the video to be ready, but I wanted to share my favorite images from the bunch as a teaser of what's to come.

Possibilities are endless.

STRAIGHT AHEADS 1.2.3

Post #100. And I don't have anything special prepared for it.
So I guess I'll do something special for the 101th post.

For now... I'm trying to get a better and more intuitive sense of timing and movement so I decided to make this straight ahead improv animation for fun and training.

Like my friend Andrew called them...Push ups for animation. I liked that.