Will Kistler’s AnimationMentor.com Experience

Like most people with a blog, I was really gung-ho at the beginning and now am really struggling to find the time for any sort of consistent updating. Don’t let this fool you into thinking that I’m not still gung-ho about animation! I love it. I watch it and I work on it every chance I get.

Under the watchful gaze of Kenny Roy, who ruled pretty hard last time, I’m planning my short film, my final project for Animation Mentor, and with that complete this section of my site will cease to grow as my job hunt begins in earnest. I’m planning on posting most of the thought process and planning materials from the development of the film on here, but probably not until it’s mostly or completely done. By late December, look for a 30 second – 1 minute short that will hopefully keep you entertained for the total number of seconds that it ends up being. Until then, there probably won’t be much on here.

If you’re curious how things are going just send me an email at will@willk.com and I’ll be more than happy to give you an update.

Cheers, for now!

Once again I’ve gone through a whole project and not posted anything, so here is my latest in reverse chronological order. The assignment was to do a bit of dialogue, and I chose a little snippet from millions. So here is my most complete version (which is still a work in progress). The hands are not finished in the fingers and the facial still needs a bit of work. Please bring it on with crits and comments, even if it’s the same thing I just said.

Dialogue test, work-in-progress

And here, are the steps I took to get here:

Dialogue test, polishing

Dialogue test, polishing

Dialogue test, blocking plus

Dialogue test, blocking plus

Dialogue test, blocking plus

Dialogue test, blocking

And finally,

Dialogue test, layout

And of course, it’s not an Animation Mentor project without some planning, which was, as always, invaluable!

Like I said, crits and comments are welcome.