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 (19)
EngleWolf
can't help you out in the scratching your head department ... but i think this is so cool...he's got some killer moves!!! awesome work!!!! :o)
Becco_UK
How nice to see an animation. Lovely fluid movement in the 'bone' character. Not so sure about some of the framing of the animation but the fact you made such an effort is a winner in my book.
Hopalong
Yessuh, them Ice Capades jes' ain't been pullin' 'em in like the old days, eh. And ol' Sonya Henie warn't built in a day either, hehe. [Great one!]
GladysClump
well, he dances better than I do!
butterfly_fish
LOL! So where are the next Winter Olympics, and will he be on the US team? This guy cracks me up!!! :-D
kenwas
Great stuff so far!
tibet2004uk
Now this is amazing Eric!!! So wonderfully done, so fluid!! This one is definitely my fav of ur animations!! Fantastic work!
Wolfsgirl
hehe This is cute =) Great work on this!! WOW.. I cant do animations. amazing work!!!
groomporter
Love it, the ultimate anorexic figure skater!
altarafive
Hmmm... shadows? They do tend to eat up space.. Looks like you might have used the "stock" lighting, which may be too much.. other than that, possibly a gif architecture issue? Looks like you had some fun with the skeleton though.. :)
robotalk
Fine fluid movements ! A Ray Harryhausen style piece --good work !!! ooh that Atkin's diet is doing wonders too !!
kathymoon
The animation look awesome!
cynlee
wow!!! looks pretty impressive... olympic medal for bone skating!! :]
violet
He has some smooth moves...:-)..awesome animation...well done !
ann0314
WOW!!! That's all I can say...just WOW!!! I am a huge animation person and the movement here is just so fluid and natural!!! :O)
Mea
Bones on ice... who'da thunk it. Hope you figured out your compression problem. Just looking at it now, I'd guess that the background isn't websafe grey and that you saved at 256 colors instead of something lower, but you probably already figured that out by now. :)
oscilis
Oh ha, ha....I didn't know you were moving the "camera" around. I thought you made those by...well...I don't know. It's not like animating a drawing then?
Azr1el
Very fluid dance movement! Superb! BRAVO! :)
ascoli00
Pretty good!