New Year and New Progress Reel

Happy New Year for all!

After 6 months in Leave of Absence (from March to August), I came back to Animation Mentor classes in September doing the Class 03 – Advanced Body Mechanic.

In this class we had a chance to do a sequence instead just three independent assignments. I decided to do an AnimJam with a theme inspired on Star Wars when Han Solo chases some troopers. I hope you enjoy it!

I was lucky having Drew Adams as my mentor, he’s from DreamWorks and it was a great experience getting tips and critiques by him.

Here’s the updated Progress Reel with the new assignments from this Term:

Thanks for watching and have a wonderful year!

PS: I will post some new works that I’ve been doing at Vagalume very soon.

Update on Animation Page – two works

Hi everyone, I’ve just updated my Animation Page with two more works that I did some months ago. One piece was an animation work for a game, actually a quiz game that has some characters doing something while the player answers the questions.

And the other piece was the animation for the CQC 3.0 that was showed on-line a couple of days ago.  This job done at Vagalume Animation Studios had a great feedback, the Storyboard and video references were done by Fabiano Gama and I just animated it and did some facial setups. The cloth simulation improvement by Heber Conde had a great result too.

Congrats to everyone at Vagalume, it’s been a great time working there!

New Demo Reel

Hi everyone, I’ve just updated my demo with my animation reel after a couple of years from the previous one. I hope you enjoy it!

Thanks for watching. See ya!

Another Class at Animation Mentor

It’s been almost 5 months since I last posted here.

I’m here just to show my new Progess Reel with Class2 assignments from AM. It has been a great time at school but I had to stop for a while.  I’m returning for the fall term.

During Class 2 we’ve learned a lot of body mechanic focusing on weight and the hips movement. We started animating a shot with a character who just has hips and legs, then we animated a character with torso but no arms, and finally a full body character without a face. For the last one I tried to animate a piece of dancing/fight called Capoeira.

Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the work as it’s been until now:

Finished Term and Updated Page

Merry Christmas for all!

I’m posting my Progress-reel of the CLASS1 from Animation Mentor.

I’m here too to say that I updated the Animation Page with the work that I did on a short film by Alê Camargo and Camila Carrossini from BubaFilms, I worked for this film last year on October and November, and it was a great experience, I enjoyed a lot working with them. I only posted right now because the film just became public these days. You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/16584933.

And here, there are the shots that I animated:

I hope U enjoy it!

Updating the Animation Page

It’s been a longtime since I last post anything here.

First of all, I wan to say that my First Class at Animation Mentor is finishing this week, I had a wonderful time and learned a lot. I’m so grateful for my mentor Anthony Wong and the classmates that I met. I hope to keep in touch with everyone. Soon, I’ll post the Progress-Reel of this Class1.

Today I updated my Animation Page with a job that I did at Vagalume Animation Studios. The job was to do animations for a pre-rendered advergame, I worked with two other animators and I was responsible to supervise them. The challenge was to comunicate the ideas with so few frames, and make the transitions from one cycle to the other.

The video has the animations that I did. I hope you enjoy it!

https://ricardojost.wordpress.com/animation/cocazer/

Animation Mentor!

I’m glad to post that I’ve been accepted as a student at Animation Mentor. Me and  my colleague Fabiano Gama will be doing AM on September.  It’s a new period of my life and I’m quite excited to begin the program. I hope to develop my animation skills, improving acting choices with convincing body mechanic and fluid movements. Thanks Vagalume for helping us to do AM.

Update on Animation Page – Centauro shots

Hi people, I updated my Animation Page with my last job at Vagalume: Centauro. There, you can see the shots that I animated and some Wip animations. Besides animating, I helped for implanting an interface method for facial rig.

Congratulation to Vagalume for this wonderful job! It’s been very cool working there.

Centauro Sport Stores Ad

Hi people, I’m here to share this work that we did at Vagalume Animation Studios. There’s a post at CGTalk and 3d4All (brazillian forum). Both foruns plugged the post and we are getting positive feedback from people. It’s been amazing!

Post at CgTalk

Post at 3d4all (need password)

By the way, i’ll post here the shots that I animated soon. Meanwhile you can see another work that I posted on my Animation page: Minuano. Hope you enjoy it!

Update on Animation Page

Hi people, I posted two works that I animated at Vagalume Studios in beginning of this year, at Animation Page. They are two Citroën Tv Commercial for retail advertisment here in Brazil. There are other jobs that I did but I’ll post them later. It has been great working there and we are doing big projects nowadays. The studio is growing up.

See Vagalume Vimeo’s Channel:

http://vimeo.com/channels/101836#11088062

Enjoy it!