Morgan Loomis

Updates

Morgan Loomis — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:47:38 +0000

I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus lately, we had some guests visiting for a couple months and some projects to do around the house. I’ve also been seriously distracting myself with PyGame, as an exercise to learn more about game development, and also to have a bigger python project to work on outside of Maya. It’s been a lot of fun, if I stick with it maybe I’ll do some posts about it in the future. At work I’m finishing up on Avengers, it’s been a fun project with a great team and I can’t wait to see the final film.

Despite all that, I haven’t forgotten about Devo, I actually finally started modelling him a couple days ago. I’m using modelling as an opportunity to try and become familiar with Blender, which is something I’ve been interested in doing for a while. It’s a very intriguing tool to me. I also picked up Sculptris, after first hearing about it a few weeks ago, and it’s a great little free program for basic Z-Brush style sculpting. No sure how useful it will be for creating riggable assets yet, but it’s great for quick concepts, and it may help with detail or texturing down the line.

Hopefully some real updates coming soon!

Avengers Superbowl Spot

Morgan Loomis — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:24:49 +0000

From what I’ve seen of the movie so far, I think it’s going to be a blast. Enjoy:

Norman for Blender

Morgan Loomis — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:38:48 +0000

This is so cool, I didn’t realize that someone ported Norman to Blender. Nice to see Creative Commons in action! I’ve been playing a bit with Blender recently, it’s a really impressive piece of software for being free and open source, and I’m curious if it can be a serious alternative to Maya for personal work. I haven’t tried animating in it yet, but now I know there’s a rig I can use!

Norman for Blender

Hobbit Trailer Online

Morgan Loomis — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:31:07 +0000

I’m excited:

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/thehobbit/

Reel Feedback Free Day

Morgan Loomis — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:08:30 +0000

A while ago I posted about Reel Feedback, a website started by some talented animator friends of mine for giving students and job-seekers professional feedback on their animation reel. Well, they’re doing a free reel review event next month in the Bay Area. If you’re an animation student getting ready to look for work, I highly recommend you check it out. It will be a great opportunity to get solid feedback on your reel, and also to just hang out with some fun dudes.

Greyhound Runcycle

Morgan Loomis — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:44:20 +0000

This is Dotty, one of the neighborhood greyhounds.

Stop Motion Tintin

Morgan Loomis — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:15:33 +0000

I had no idea this existed:

Devo Sketches

Morgan Loomis — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:18:35 +0000

I finally got around to doing a couple whippet sketches, nothing too fancy but it feels like it’s been forever since I’ve drawn anything, so I thought I should make a record of it. Whenever I get around to modelling this character, I’m thinking I’ll go for this level of exaggeration, rather than too realistic or too cartoony.

Interview with Phil Tippett

Morgan Loomis — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:27:30 +0000

In this interview he talks about Jurassic Park, Star Wars, good and bad film making, and even mentions Tintin: “The motion capture stage is where directors go to die.” I always love hearing his take on things:

http://blog.mondotees.com/2011/09/03/check-out-the-full-phil-tippett-mmm2-qa/

Sneak Peak Tintin Clips

Morgan Loomis — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:46:38 +0000

Yet another post without any real content, other than to re-share stuff that has been released online. Here’s a look at 5 clips from Tintin. They’re spoilery, fair warning…