New employee final

Here is a rendered version of my last shot

New employee final (rendered) from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

L.A. Times Roundtable Discussion: Animation

Pets

Monster

New employee polishing

Here is polishing of the shot. O didn't have much time this week to work on the shot, but it's still looks better than last week

New employee polishing from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

New employee shot 3 polishing

Here is a polished version of the last shot

New employee shot 3 polishing from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

CTN - "Inside the Studio" presentation

Here is alink to a presentation, made by Bobby Beck and Mike Stern "Living in a studio world" with some cool notes about how to survive in a studio

Presentation

New employee shot 3 blocking+

Here is blocking+ pass of the last shot of the scene.

New employee shot 3 blocking + from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Shot 2 polishing

Here is a polishing pass of the second shot.

New employee Shot 2 polishing from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Shot 2 blocking+

Here is a blocking+ of the second shot. This shot is much longer, so it took much more time to do...

New employee Shot 2 blocking+ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Shot 1 polish

Here is a polished version of the first shot of the scene

New employee shot 1 polishing from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Hotel Transylvania: Genndy Blur Shot Build

New employee shot one blocking+

This week we had to take one of the shots into blocking+

New employee shot 1 blocking+ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Nice animation

New employee blocking

Here is blocking pass of my new shot

New employee blocking from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

New shot

Hey everyone!!
Class 5 started and this time we have 10 weeks to work on the shot. Wow!! Previous week we chose lines of dialogue and this week assignment was to do layout and plan the shot. Here is my layout...

New employee layout from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

The Croods Trailer (2013)

New progress reel classes 1-4

Here is mt latest progress reel with all assignments from classes 1 - 4.

I hope you'll like it.

Progress reel classes 1-4 from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Bad student final

Here is a final of my Bad student shot.

Bad student final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

STAR WARS DETOURS™ Trailer

What is secondary action

Check out this video, which is full of secondary action

Bad student polishing+

Here is another pass of my shot

Bad student polishing+ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Some helpful links

• Facial camera setup
• Face tips
• Action Analysis - Tying the Face Together

Andrew Stanton: 2012 Commencement Speech

Tell if someone is lying using NLP Eye Accessing Cues

Gestures and Body Language Tutorial

Detect Lies Like LIE TO ME! - Scam School

Bad student polishing

Here is first polishing pass of the shot. I made a lot of changes to make the movements simple.

Bad student polishing from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Andrew Stanton speech at AM Graduation 2012

Andrew Stanton speech at AnimationMentor Graduation 2012.
AWNtv :: Andrew Stanton Commencement Speech at Animation Mentor July 2012 | AWNtv

Animation School - Animschool: Character Eye Blink

Bad student blocking+

Here is blocking+ pass of the shot. I added lips and did some refinements.

Bad student blocking+ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

AnimationScout Eye direction

AnimationScout - Eye Direction from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

AnimationScout Eyelids

AnimationScout - Eyelids from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

AnimationScout Head Direction

AnimationScout - Head Direction from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

AnimationScout Mouth corners

AnimationScout - Mouth Corners from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

AnimationScout Eye movements

AnimationScout - Eye Movements from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

AnimationScout Blinks

Great video on blinks

AnimationScout - Blinks from Ugur Ulvi Yetiskin on Vimeo.

Star Wars: Episode 1 3D Skywalker Ranch Archives Flythrough

The LEGO® Story

Bad student

Hello everyone. Here is my next shot. And it's my first time with sound and facial and bishop and...
The idea is simple - a student is having some problems at the exam.
I hope you like it.

Bad student blocking from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

My Little Friend

My Little Friend from Eric Prah on Vimeo.

Ice Age 4: Making The Movie (BLUE SKY STUDIOS INTERVIEW)

Pixar Brave - Behind the scene

Take a look at my website

Hello everyone! Just finished my new personal website.

If you have time, check it out... CGvic.com

Bad day final (rendered)

Here is a rendered version of my last shot with some changes...

Bad day final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Bad day final

Here is a final pass of the shot...
The rendered version will be soon

Bad day final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Bad day polishing

Here is first polishing pass of my bad day shot.

Bad day polishing from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Me & My Shadow

Dreamworks animation released its first image of its upcoming hybrid film "Me & My Shadow" combination of CG and traditional hand drawn animation. It's about what would happen if your shadow, that has been following you around your whole life, just stood up and took over. The shadows will be animated hand drawn, and the other characters will be CG animated. 
Like "Me and My Shadow" on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/MeAndMyShadowMovie

McLaren Tooned - ( Episode 2: Slicks ) .. ( HD )

McLaren Animation (Tooned) - Episode 01 (Wheel Nuts )

Baggage - Virgin Media Shorts

Support AM alumni on Virgin Media Contest


Baggage - Virgin Media Shorts

Bad day blocking+

Here is another pass of my next shot, I did some changes as my mentor asked. And started refining the shot and add BDs.

Bad day blocking+ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Interesting link

Here is another animation related interesting link

New class - new animation

Hello everyone
I'm in class 4 right now and here is my new animation. It's supposed to have at least 2 beats. The idea is that Stewie comes back home after a bad day at work, but the door won't close and that drives him crazy...

Bad day blocking from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

The best line of action tutorial

Here I found one of the best tutorials and descriptions on Line of Action.

Check it out

Happy 4 of july

Happy 4 of July to all my american friends!!

Paranorman Featurette - "Making Norman" (HD)

Horton Behind The Scenes

Epic - Official Trailer (2013)

Thought of You - by Ryan Woodward

Class 4 started

Hello everyone!

Class 4 Introduction into acting has just started. And I'm really excited about that, because I was waiting for this for a long time.

Our first assignment is planning again. But this time we should focus more on acting, rather that body mechanics. Also our shot is supposed to have at least 2 "beats" 

Monsters University Official Trailer (2013) HD

Dinner

Progression of a shot.Jamaal Bradley

Progression of an Animated Shot: Gothel & Rapunzel Disney's Tangled from Jamaal Bradley on Vimeo.

My latest Progress reel (june.2012)

Here is my latest Progress reel with all works I made, while studying at AnimationMentor.

My latest progress reel (june.2012) from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Umbrella fencing Final (rendered)

Here is my second shot of this term.

Umbrella fencing final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Jump over the river Final (rendered)

Here is a render of my first shot of this term.

Jump over the river final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

End of term!!

Hey, hey... this the end of term... And finally I passed class 3... It took me 3 times to pass this class and finally I did it!!! Yay!!!

Best of Web - Le meilleur du Web - HD - Zapatou

Great website

Here is a great website with tutorials on maya, after effects ... It updates almost every day. And has some cool videos there
Lesterbanks.com

Ghost Recon Alpha - Official HD Film

Behind the scenes

Making of VFX Mikros image de Ghost Recon Alpha from Mikros image on Vimeo.

Wreck-It Ralph - Official Trailer #1 : John C. Reilly Intro (2012) [HD]

How to Draw Poses

BRAVE: An Extended Behind the Scenes Featurette

Pixar Brave - Behind the scene

Umbrella polishing+

Here is another pass of my shot, it's almost final.

Umbrella polishing+ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Shot progression by Tim Kallok

11 SecondClub shot progression by Tim Kallok

Untitled from mini-challenges on Vimeo.

HORIZON - matte painting

Breakdown | - HORIZON -

Breakdown | - HORIZON - from Mickaël Forrett (MEO) on Vimeo.

Maya Demo with Bobby: Timing & Spacing

DC Nation Teaser-Aardman Animation

Umbrella polishing

Here is a first polishing pass of the shot

Umbrella polishing from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

A history of CG in movies

a rather short history of (believable) CG characters in movies from lnrdshelby on Vimeo.

Umbrella blocking+

Here is a blocking+ pass of the umbrella shot.

Umbrella blocking+ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

dENiZEN "Shine a Light for Nature"

A little inspiration...

dENiZEN "Shine a Light for Nature" from LICHTFAKTOR on Vimeo.

New shot.

Here is a blocking pass of new shot. It's going to be fencing with umbrella

Umbrella blocking from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Flour sack animation

Here is a nice animation of a flour sack.

BTW, here is a link to flour sack rig and it's free...

Jump final

Jump over the river final animation

Jump final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

GhostMan

Some nice maya script for animation and animators.

Ghostman

And it's free!

Sonar

Short film. Music generated by an animated cycle. 2009 http://possiblemetrics.com

Patters in storyboarding

57 minutes that will teach you good layout of a scene and approach to a shot. The video is about storyboarding but these patterns will work in any animation

Animation workflow

A good approach to animation workflow

Gravity

A video, that is both creative and educative!

Good posing

Here is a link to Preston Blair book about poses and line of action Book

Computer Beat

What is creativity...

Jump polishing+

Here is another pass of my jump-over-the-river shot

Video Puzzle

Very creative video

Jump polishing

My mentor said that I'm gonna have two shot class. This means that I will work only on 2 shots instead of three, and I have like 6 weeks for each. So here is a spline pass of my jump shot

Jump polishing from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Devils and Angels

Here are some more behind the scenes

Jump animation Blocking +

Here is my blocking+ pass of the new shot

Jump blocking+ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Acting for animators

Hey to all who are into acting ... here is a nice material 

New shot blocking

Here is a new shot. And new blocking. Jumping ove the river shot

Jump blocking from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Nice animation

Spherikal from Ion on Vimeo.

WOW!!

Yay!!! The Little Painter has successfully raised its funding goal 1 hour ago.

And it did 50k ... WOW !!

And as Kenny promised everyone who pledged will get 2 items from the KennyRoy.com archive!

Check info here 

Pirates Behind the scenes

To all who love stopmotion animation

Here is a link to youtube channel where you can find some behind the scenes videos ... really interesting...

Marathon resources

Hello everyone to those who missed the 24-Hour-Marathon here is a page where you can watch and download files from the marathon

Download and watch marathon

And also...

Don't forget to tune it at KennyRoy.com for the final 2 hours of funding on Wed, April 4th, 10am PDT, and for the announcement of the final  MAJOR REWARD!!!

Hotel Transylvania International Trailer

Update on Little Painter

Hey everyone couple of posts ago I said about the animated short film by Kenny Roy, called The Little Painter. And that it needs to be funded...

Well I got to say that IT DID GET it's FUNDING!!! WOW!!

You can check all the detailes here The Little Painter     Here is a link to the video

But there are 6 days more to help this great project even more. So Kenny Roy announces some extra new bonuses and materials IF WE GET TO 35k...

And there is one more thing ...

Don't forget to tune it at KennyRoy.com for the final 2 hours of funding on Wed, April 4th, 10am PDT, and for the announcement of the final  MAJOR REWARD!!!

Something interesting

Here are some videos on how o approach blocking 

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - Official Trailer

Class 3 Progress reel

Class 3 is over and here are all 3 shots from this term

Class 3 Progress reel from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Naughty sphere

Here is a render of my last shot

Naughty Sphere Final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Sphere final

Here is my final of Sphere assignment

Sphere final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Official Trailer: Angry Birds Space out on March 22

Just a little more...

Hey here is a link to Kenny Roy future short...

Kenny Roy, who's famous for his really helpful animation related education videos, is trying to make his own short called The Little Painter. You can find all necessary information here 

P.S. everyone, who pledge 200$ will get all rigs from the short.

How to study animation

If studying in school is essential to getting good grades, couldn't you say the same for creating good animation?  If you truly want to have better animation, you need to study.  More importantly, do you know HOW TO STUDY? ...

Kenny Roy interview

Here is a link to interview with Kenny Roy talking about his Animation Marathon and his short The Little Painter

Kenny Roy Interview

Malcolm rig

Here is a link to a nice rig, made by Animschool.com (I know they are competitors, but the rig is nice)

It's called Malcolm and it completely free (you just have to accept licence agreement).

Malcolm rig

New way of working

Hello everyone since today I decided to add some other interesting animation related materials to my blog.
Enjoy the first one.
Really nice animation short

Sphere blocking + next pass

Here is another pass of sphere assignment

Sphere blocking++ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Sphere blocking+

Here is a blocking+ pass of the sphere shot...

Sphere blocking+ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Sphere blocking

New week ... new shot... This is the final shot for class 3 and it concludes the objects theme (I had pyramide, cube and now sphere)...

Here it is ...

Sphere blocking from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Heavy Cube Final

Here is my Final... I hope it looks good!

Heavy Cube Final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Week 306 assignment

Here is my blocking + pass of my previous assignment.
I made some changes

Square blocking + from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Week 305 blocking

Here is my blocking pass of my next shot..
This time it's about giant square.

Square blocking from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Strange Triangle Final (rendered)

Here is rendered version of Triangle shot

Strange Triangle Final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Pyramide final

Here is my final
The shot looks much better, thanks to my mentor and his very good critiques.
I changed phrasing a bit.
I hope you like it

Triangle final from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Week 303 blocking +

Here is my blocking + pass of my previous assignment.
I made some changes

Triangle blocking+ from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.

Class 3 again :(

Hello everyone!!
I'm in class 3 again :( It turned out that my grades were lower than level neded to pass the term. So I had to retake it....
Anyways...
Here is my week 2 blocking

Triangle blocking from Victor Ostapenkov on Vimeo.