Creature personality animation and updates

Hey guys, I have returned from Hong Kong last week and I must say, it was a welcome break as there was no worries of work, animation or putting any further strain to my wrist from the RSI. I was there to relax and enjoy living at a place which I have not been to for the last six years. I was then able to look at my life with a much more positive attitude.

I miss Hong Kong

I did however miss my part time job as in a way it's part of my social life where I'm able to work alongside a team that enjoy working with. However, after working a shift or two, I now have a much greater desire to move on and to focus on the career that I would like to have.

I have then got back to working on an animation which I had not yet shared before I had left, something that I wanted to keep down low at the time, as I didn't want to have to show up empty handed or forget to post updates on it.

This animation below is about halfway done as I have yet to complete the rest of the poses. Progress was slow when I started on this project but one of the things that I have started to notice was that, I was able to animate the creature with a lot more feeling towards it. What I mean by this is that the movements from the Nico creature has that sparkle of life, weight and personality which I have never really seemed to grasp from previous projects; something that has eluded me and constantly puzzled me what Ollie Johnson and Frank Thomas (Walt Disney Nine old men) was talking about "feeling".

With this, I hope to implement this technique in future projects where it'll make my animation much more appealing to watch.

I'm currently happy with the progress so far and I'm predicting that I should have this animation completed by the end of the week or so. After that, I will then start to polish up my CV and begin to get out there of the job market because quite frankly, I can't keep thinking the old way, to keep improving my showreel content. I have by the way uploaded a fresh new showreel here: Andrew Mo Animation Showreel 2014

Anyway, I got a lot to do today, so I'll leave it as that and see you guys next time.