Meet The Spy - Team Fortress 2

I never played Team Fortress 2, but I got to admit I want to due to the amazingly funny and well done characters.
You could really tell there was a lot of thinking about who are the characters, their inner way of thinking, their personalities and the way they would of moved if they were real (which is a lot of work when coming to animate a character - each one has it's internal force - why they move the way they move, who they are, what is their background in life, etc).

Anyway, enough talking :)

Enjoy it and the others on Youtube...

Is it just my imagination or do you see the similarities as well?

Here's is a clip with Monsters vs. Aliens amazing art work!
I can't wait to see this movie once it would be released to DVD (I'm afraid there wasn't an English speaking version, only the Hebrew version near by and I wouldn't go far just to see the movie... sorry).

The thing caught my eye was the earlier sketches of "The missing link", which I found making a strong resemblance to a picture I've drew about 4 years ago (I named it Skipper because it was something of a easy tempered mud-skipper).
I don't know how I didn't see it at first, but maybe it's just me :)


(featuring at time counter: 0:35 in the video below):





My version from 2005 (also can be found in "my drawing and sketches" tab:

This One Time - by Nelson Boles

Here's an amazingly cute, unique and different short film (which to me personaly reminded some japanis anime qualities) done by Nelson Boles - A student from Calarts.

Enjoy!

This one time... from nelson boles on Vimeo.

Shhh.... not time for animation (the baby is sleeping!)

Sorry I didn't post anything in the last weeks, but as you can see - I got my hands full ;)
As much as I love animating, I'm actually pretty happy I don't need to animate anything at this time while my wife and I are still getting used to the new member in our little family (no time for anything else).
Adding this to the fact I haven't found the time to finish my baby girl's canvas painting and now I've also taken the upportuinity to design my sister's wedding invitation (yep, more great news), I can't seem to get things done as I wanted to, but I guess it's ok and I'm really blessed with a cute and amazingly addorable child.
Here are the characters I did manage to color and highlight in the last few days (when ever I got the spare time).

I'm A Dad!!!

This is the most important issue I had ever posted here on my blog: two days ago I became a father to a little baby girl!
Since the labor was very hard and long (lasted nearly two days) and we also encountered some complications during the birth, I had no time to sit infront of the computer and type this.
She is an adorable little baby, nearly ever crying (except if something REALLY bogging her) and looks just like her pretty mother :)
It was the most incredible day of my life and I can't wait to go back to the hospital and see her again. Hopfully she'll be home soon once they'll release us.

Two challenges!

Animation Lab is a an animation studio located in Jerusalem, here in Israel.
They are working on a feature film and are about to recruit artists in different fields such as characters modelers, storyboard artists, animator and more.
They are doing this challenge in order to pick the people they see fit to invite and learn the way they work as a big animation studio (and maybe even invite us to work once the course will be over).
Since my life's dream is to work as an animator on a feature film, I thought it would be a mistake for me not to try and take this opportunity.
I've decided to participate in two challenges, both in fields of my personal interests: Story-boarding, and of-course, animation.


Storyboard:
We had to take a specific israeli song by Danny Sanderson and create a story board to its lyrics.
Here is the Storyboard:



and here's a clip I did with the same drawings:

Shir Roim from Ziv Ariely on Vimeo.


Animation:
We needed to download a character which was made specifically for this animation challange - the 3D boy (made by the talented Rafi benaharon), and to animate it to the monologue they gave (the 3D boy is a super-animation-geek, so it was a lot of fun for me to animate).

Here is the animation test I've done:

Animation Lab Challenge - Animation Test from Ziv Ariely on Vimeo.

Afikoman says "Happy Passover!"

Hey everyone.
I would like to present the world with my new "super hero" - Afikoman ;)
Naaaa, just kidding around (thought it could be funny to those of get it).
To those of you who celebrate passover... have a great holiday