David Martinez - Character Animator

I’ll be honest with you all…

When I was younger, I used to draw a lot (even though that my drawing skills were quite poor). It became even worst when I stopped drawing at all some years ago.

As a student at Animation Mentor I did some planning using stick figures but I’ve noticed that I was not feeling comfortable even drawing that. And let me share a secret with you… That’s BAD.

I’ve been always amazed by some students that even drawing a few lines are able to communicate a lot. It took me a long time (probably too much), but I’ve decided that it’s time to get back to my sketchbooks and pencils and start drawing again.

To draw a little bit each day cannot hurt. What’s the worst thing that could happen? Who knows! Maybe I improve my skills! 

For those of you looking for some inspiration, let me post something that Glenn Vilppu said:

We want to be able to communicate our feelings visually, and to recognize what creates those feelings in the observer. In short, the ability to focus our emotions and intellect to express visually what is important to us.

Being honest, as animators, we want to do the same thing while posing our character!

I don’t want to get into the discussion about if a CG animators needs to know how to draw but I think that drawing is a good way to sharp our observation skills.

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Make sure to check the latest podcast at “The Animation Podcast” with Ken Duncan.

Click HERE to get more information and listen to the podcast.

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It seems that the comments were not working on the new layout (Thanks Ale for the heads up!)

In order to have them working, I’ve disabled temporaly the CAPTCHA protection plugin. Let’s see if I can sort out soon a solution sometime soon. In the meantime, feel free to leave some comments.

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This is my newest animation! Enjoy!!

Update:

Comments are working again! Feel free to leave some feedback!

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In a major step forward on “The Hobbit,” Guillermo del Toro has signed on to direct the New Line-MGM tentpole and its sequel.The widely expected announcement — which had been rumored for several weeks — came Thursday afternoon jointly from exec producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, New Line president Toby Emmerich, and Mary Parent, newly named chief of MGM’s Worldwide Motion Picture Group.

Del Toro’s moving to New Zealand for the next four years to work with Jackson and his Wingnut and Weta production teams. He’ll direct the two films back to back, with the sequel dealing with the 60-year period between “The Hobbit” and “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.

New Line is overseeing development and will manage production. Both pics are being co-produced and co-financed by New Line Cinema and MGM, with Warner Bros. distributing domestically and MGM handling international.

Del Toro won’t leave for New Zealand immediately as he’s still in post-production on U’s “Hellboy 2,” due out in July. His previous pic, “Pan’s Labyrinth,” was released through New Line’s Picturehouse and set a record as the highest grossing Spanish language film in U.S. box office history.

The official signing of Del Toro comes four months after New Line settled a lawsuit with Jackson over “The Lord of the Rings” and announced that it had agreed with MGM to turn J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Hobbit” into two live-action films. Sam Raimi had been preceived as the initial front-runner as director but Del Toro had emerged in recent months as the likely candidate.

The studios didn’t give a start date on production and don’t yet have a script. Though no screenplay deal’s been set, it’s expected that the “LOTR” scripting team of Jackson, Walsh and Philippa Boyens will collaborate with Del Toro.

With Del Toro blocking out four years for the project, it’s likely that the studios are aiming at starting shooting next year and releasing the films in late 2011 and 2012.

Jackson’s WETA stages, post-production and visual effects facilities — built for “The Lord of the Rings” — will be used for both films. And New Zealand will again be the site of Middle-earth, with the story centering on Bilbo Baggins taking the Ring of Power from Gollum.

Source: Variety

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Ignore this post. I’m just trying some things…

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Hey!

As you can see, I’m going for a way more simple layout! I’ve noticed that the older that I get, the less time that I want to spend dealing with a layout for a website.

I think that the reason for that is that the more time that I spend on that, the less time that I spend writing content and to be honest, if someone is visiting my website, I preffer to offer some content than a fancy layout that tells nothing. 

I’m not all together happy with the header image though. I need to use something different since the title of the blog is not reading well. There ’s no rush on that though…

Hope everyone is doing well!

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Hey hey!!!

I’ve been moving from one server to another and the website has been down for a while. The good news are that I’m back though!! I hope that you didn’t stop passing by while the website was down.

I will be posting an update of things happening over here soon so stay turned! I will post some animation work plus some thoughts that I have about animation and filmmaking!

Note: I know that the header image doesn’t make a lot of sense. I will do some minor tweaks on the layout soon so don’t worry about that, ok?

Thanks for reading!

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