Walk Challenge Winners

Winner - Pier Pressure - Drew Winey

Thank you all for entering the 2010 walk challenge. I think we really had some amazing entries and I was personally inspired to start doing a walk myself. The whole reason for doing this challenge was to get people to think about character through their walk. Often, when a reel contains a walk cycle, it is often bland and out of context. It tells you nothing about the character. I think that every one of the walks we judged had character. Myself, Victor Navone, Scott Clark and Travis Hathaway judged the entries.

Best Overall Walk – Drew Winey – Pier Pressure

2nd Place – Tyler Kakac – Disco Walk

3rd place – Eleanor Dayton – Kid on Moms Leg

spline doctors walk challenge 2010 from andrew gordon on Vimeo.

Congratulations to all the winners. First prize will be receiving a signed poster from Toy Story 3. The other winner will receive some other  Pixar schwag as yet to be determined.

Walk Challenge Deadline Closed

Some of the walk entries

Thank you to all the contestants. They will be judged over the weekend and the winner will be announced this Monday or Tuesday. We have some really great entries and again, thanks for taking part in this. For me, a good walk says everything about the character and a lot of people really nailed it. I will be posting all of the walks on the site for you to see. Good luck.

-Andrew

Walk Contest Extended to May 21st

I have extended the deadline one week since I have not been getting many entries, so keep working on those walk scenes. The winner will be sure to get some cool stuff and potentially be featured in a 3d world Article. Please email your entries to splinedr@gmail.com

Good luck!

Andrew

The Walk Challenge – A contest

This month I thought it would be cool to run another contest. The walk is a difficult thing to animate well in animation. Getting the right attitude, making the character feel like they belong in the world you set them in. Weight, physicality and so on… They are all elements of a good walk. First prize is a signed poster of all the animators on Toy Story 3. Second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is your fired (I had to make the Glen Gary reference.) Second and third prize are to be determined. There is also a possibility of the 3 walks being used for an article in a popular 3d magazine. Here are the ground rules:

Animate a one of the following walks: (in 2d or 3d)

A character with a physical limitation (ie a man with a ball and chain, or limp, etc… use of props ok)

A period character from the Victorian era (do your homework. Many to choose from)

An 8 year old kid on his way to or from school (think about subtext)

A confident character from the early 1970′s

Ok, there are the choices. Obviously you will need to show the cycle. Please include a rough and final pass. Its best if the character is in an environment. Obviously, no stock rigs.  You will be judged on originality, execution,  and entertainment value. Good Luck!  Contest end May 14th. Email walks to splinedr@gmail.com

-Andrew

Summer Animation Programs

Summertime is coming. I had the best experience after I graduated high school in 90 at a summer arts program. I’ll be helping teach a course their this summer along with the Kroyer’s. Here are some cool summer classes going on for animation this summer.

Please post links to more or email me (splinedr@gmail.com) any other programs you think are good.

-Andrew

http://www.csusummerarts.org/courses.shtml

http://www.csssa.org/

http://www.gobelins.fr/~summerschool/en/informations.php

http://www.vanarts.com/courses/character-animation-intensive

https://secure.vfs.com/summerintensives/

http://www.cca.edu/academics/precollege