Animation is killing me :P

It's been quite crazy to study animation, because it's definally something hard to me but i'll keep trying to push it foward. ;)
Those are some exercises i've been doing at Melies.

Tem sido uma doidera estudar animação, porque pra mim é algo difícil e que não fluí naturalmente mas vou continuar me esforçando. ;)
Estes são alguns exercícios que tenho feito na Melies.

2011 has been intense

This year i'll be studying at Melies, so there's a lot of new things to learn in animation and modeling, i'm also trying to manage my time the best i can to keep studying drawing and painting regularly.

This is my first modeling study, it was based on a dagger of Prince of Persia The Two Thrones.

Happy X-mas! Boas festas!

I don't really get into end of year celebrations, but i wish everyone a happy X-mas and a happy new year anyway! =)

Environment study

Another environment study, i'm trying to fix my perspective and composition problems.

Outro estudo de ambiente, tentando melhorar minha perspectiva e composição.

Environment study, again =P

Another speedie one, took me something like two and a half hour. I'm quite frustrated with my lack of progress in composition fundament. But gotta keep going... training and studying even more...

Outro speedie, levei cerca de 2 horas e meia. Estou um pouco insatisfeito com minha falta de progresso no fundamento composição. Mas tenho que continuar em frente... treinando e estudando ainda mais...

Environment study 002

Just training a bit more of composition and value control.

Praticando um pouco de composiçao e controle tonal.

Environment speedie

Quick speedie, around two hours. Just warming up for a more finished illustration.

Rápido speedie, levei umas duas horas. É só um aquecimento pra uma ilustração mais finalizada.

Sketchbook roughs

Just throwing some ideas on paper, some of it may become more polished illustrations in the future.

Só rascunhando idéias, algumas delas talvez se tornem ilustrações finalizadas daqui a algum tempo.

Homeless cat

Since I've visited a shelter for abandoned animals in 2007 and adopted my Lion called Cat (:P) I am completely in favor of this cause, which inspires me to draw and paint this subject once in a while. Would be nice to have more people interested in this cause. =]

Desde que visitei um abrigo para animais abandonados em 2007 e adotei meu Leão chamado Gato (:P) sou completamente a favor desta causa, o que me inspira a desenhar e pintar este assunto de vez em quando. As vezes penso como seria bom ter mais pessoas interessadas nessa causa. =]

Sharing some of the process/mostrando parte do processo:

The inspiration/A inspiração:

Speed painting

I felt like dusting off the blog today, so tried to convey some kind of a distant mountain market in this speed painting, it took me like 2 and a half hour. For those of you who doens't know what a speed painting is, here's what wikipedia says about it: "(...)is an exercise, primarily digital, in which one paints on a time budget, using already developed methods to create a piece.(...)"

Some animation 2...

Few concepts

Some stuff i've made for college projects this year.

Stage 3

It's been a while...
Bennet's on the road again.

this time i just wanted to paint a night scene, it took quite long to finish the piece, about 8 to 9 hours. There's something in the composition that bothers me, but i can't find what. By the way, composition is such a pain in the a... i really hope to master it someday. =)

Just to share some of the work process:

Some animation...

College stuff.
PS: Rig feito pelo meu amigo Gil.

Dead Wizard

Need to improve on character design...