Wednesday, December 19, 2007

My Monkey!

Hey everyone! I'm posting in December! That means there won't be a gap in my monthly archives.. :P

Anyways, this is a post dedicated entirely to my 30 second action analysis project that we 3rd years were working on at school this semester. Below I have some character model sheets and the background I used for my animation. The model sheets are hand drawn and inked, and coloured in Photoshop and the background was done in Illustrator. I've also attached a 6 second clip of the animation, which is basically the only thing out of the 30 worth watching because its coloured and composited.. the rest is rough animation thats basically there to fill up the 30 seconds. So.. I hope you enjoy! The monkey's name is Carlos, because Carlos did the voice for him (in a scene that's still rough animation.. so I may post it later). Check out his stuff at pretoanimation.blogspot.com

Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Kwazy Kwanzaa, Tip Top Tet, and a solemn, dignified Ramadan, everyone! See you in 2008!





24 comments:

Amanda said...

TAPAN OMG! Your monkey is AMAZING! :O

He looks like he's so much fun to animate too, all stretchy-like.
Really sweet job, you always impress me :D

Jinny Liang said...

I love your monkey and your animation Tapan! Happy Holidays! =)

Hodges said...

Wow, wow. I just want to see him take that bite so much

Amazing work, that character has so much appeal

Yuriy Sivers said...

omg... i love this monkey!! Animation is awesome!

Christina Dee said...

booteeful!!

Evan Bonifacio said...

Niiice!.. looking pretty slick there Tapan. =)

carlos preto said...

i could watch carlos all day he is such an awesome monkey! everybody says how your monkey is amazing and awesome i just want to say i really love carlos :P yeah you should put up your lipsync animation once its done because i just figured it out its not my voice that sounds good its your animation thats so well done that it makes my voice sound good dont ask me how that works :P keep up the great work tapan!!

Boris M. said...

those model sheets are great Tapan!

Randolph Lizarda said...

this is too great! nice job sir.

Mel Maduro said...

Damn Tapan, you got some mad skills. I heart that monkey.

LeMark said...

this is gggggggreat!like i already told u at the studio! i love that path of action that ur monkey does

Garrett Hanna said...

BAH! I want to see all of it! Rough or not, it's still amazing you modest bastard! :P You know I love it Tapan.

Have a good break pal!

Seo Kim said...

hehe awesome animation!

sylv1K said...

very good animation, beautiful design and colour!!

Unknown said...

Holy Ravioli! Hold on while I collect my tongue off the floor ...

Wow ... that was jaw-dropping good! Just beautiful animation!!! So clean and crisp and precise ... I love it.

Happy Holidays!!!

trevor dalmer said...

gorgeous tapan! watchin u draw him.. i feel like i know that monkey so well:)

Kei Acedera said...

Lookin really nice Tapan!

erika danusasmita said...

aww!! your animation is the best Tapan!!

Mark said...

Nice job... cool character too

Andrea Fernandez said...

tapan that layout rocks my socks ;)
Thanks for leaving me my very first comment I'll make sure to fix your link.

Andrea Fernandez said...

tapan that layout rocks my socks ;)
Thanks for leaving me my very first comment I'll make sure to fix your link.

Andrea Fernandez said...

tapan that layout rocks my socks ;)
Thanks for leaving me my very first comment I'll make sure to fix your link.

Andrea Fernandez said...

tapan that layout rocks my socks ;)
Thanks for leaving me my very first comment I'll make sure to fix your link.

kimbot said...

great expression there!