A Tiger for Mea (Photoshop) www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php
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I have been drawing since I was 11, some 33 years ago.
My 6th grade teacher, Mr. Knoss, was a great artist and I greatly admired his illustrations. He encouraged me to pursue my artistic interests at a crucial time in my development.
My High School art teacher "Vern", was also a great influence. He always challenged me to try different things.
I was lucky that my parents were very supportive of my interest in art. I studied at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1986-1990). Where I was humbled by many great artists that were far more talented than I. There it was that I rounded out my fine art skills, and then chose to major in Media Arts. Studied film, video and sound. Learned all the skills needed to shoot, direct, edit those mediums.
While pursuing a Media Arts major, I discovered computer graphics, still in it's infancy. This is where I came to an Epiphany. Here was a new medium, that incorporated everything I had previously learned into one new medium. Not only that, but it had new dimensions, interactivity, feedback, randomness, AI. I was hooked.
The next 17 years I learned and grew with the industry. Learning everything from how to create and manipulate digital imagery and create animations, to interface design and interactive authoring. My day job is an Information Architect, a fancy term for software interface design.
A few years back, my wife and I hit on some difficult times (As many people do) and it was during a very dark time in our lives that I discovered what became Renderosity, Initially I posted work, merely as a way to get myself back into the discipline of making new art.
I was delighted to find a world-wide community of talented artists, exchanging ideas and art!! I was thrilled! I have learned so much from you, and your art has brightened up my world. I am lucky to have made some great friends here, and I aim to do tributes to all of you!
Somanyartistssolittletime! ; )
I use this gallery as an online journal, and put all of my "Brain-droppings" here, over 400 images.
To see "The best" of my work, you can use the portals on my gallery page or go to my website:
www.abrainteractive.com
Comments (24)
idiot_sphinx
Cool idea :D She has great movement ! Well done animation !!~*****~!!
SophiaDeer
Excellent animation! I wish I could do things like this. Beautiful work.
robotalk
Fabulous !! Great moves --and the toon effect is fantastic --I love how depth via tha hands looking closer/bigger give it such a real effect !! awesomely totem
ann0314
HEHEH very very cool...I have done similar animations in P5...fun to do and this turned out really really AWESOME!!! V :O)
Lorraine
this looks too cool!...the toon effect is great, I like the hand movements!
Cosme..D..Churruca
Genial this animation... it works perfectly ! Impressive Eric !
linkdink
Looks great!
tibet2004uk
Now this is, by far, ur best animation so far!!! Totally wicked!!! The movements are perfect, so fluid and gracious!!!! Most excellent!!!
Tedz
Hey! Macarama!
butterfly_fish
This would make a great visualization for Media Player. ;-)
Druidstorm
A master in the making this is excellent mate...WoW AMAZING truly AMAZING!!!...:))
Margana
Totally impressive Eric!Her movements look great.I can't even begin to imagine how this is done so let me just say,'WOW!'-M :)
prog
Well, if your a luddite, what does that make me?!?!??! I'm still using Poser 4!!!!! LOL!!! Seriously, this is one of the best annimations I've seen here!!! It's absolutely fantastic!!! EXCELLENT work, and a HUGE vote!!!!
logiloglu
simply wonderful. der Bewegungsablauf sieht sehr natlich und realistisch aus.a top animation. superb done,Eric. BIG VOTE #:O)
Burpee
Lol! I was waiting for the music to kick in :D I can't imagine how you do it either, I'm so impressed! **
ken1171
Judging by the fingers sticking out, I bet this is a BVH MOCAP animation imported into Poser. Usually BVH files have incompatible finger joint names, and thus the fingers here were not animated. It's pretty straight forward to use BVH in Poser, and it beats me I haven't seen this more often here. Probably because of file sizes.
Digimon
Yes Ken1171, had you read the text, you would have seen I explain the use of the BVH file, infact I explain it further in another animation I used a BVH file in "The Dance".
cynlee
kinda like it? i luv it!! that is so cool... makes me wanna get up & dance! :]
TwoPynts
Hey, this is lots of fun. Better than I could do, that's for sure!
dashboard_jehovah
Awesome animation!..impressive work!
AnneCHPostma
Absolutely cool. So now I have another thing on my todo list .. figuring out animations in Poser. Superb motion!
Digimon
Thanks everyone for all the great feedback! Though I normally animate by hand, frame by frame, this animation (As stated) was done with a BVH motion file. Anyone with Poser can do similar animations: Some come with each release of Poser (I think?) Simply pick a figure, prep it (Textures clothes etc)Save~then import one of the BVH motion files, it will ask you to choose the X-axis or Z-axis? I think you want the Z-axis, if it looks goofy try it over again using the X-axis. That's it, your figure will move! Eric
kimariehere
oh WOW this is so COOL ,,, lol my kids aways have to come in and see your stuff my daughter asked did he do another gymnastics one lol i said no but hey he did a dancer .. they said to tell you they love it!
zoren
I need to learn how to do this, great moves.....