Raymond's So Called "Art"

2011-05-19T22:45:00.000-07:00

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cheetah

2011-03-10T10:50:00.000-08:00

Little something I did before I started work.

2011-02-27T13:12:00.001-08:00

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2010-12-21T01:06:00.000-08:00

2010-12-20T00:21:00.000-08:00

Last assignment for Class 1

2010-12-12T11:38:00.001-08:00

walks of life

2010-12-04T18:31:00.000-08:00

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2010-10-15T13:05:00.000-07:00

Basic Foundations Week 2

2010-10-10T10:14:00.000-07:00

I almost forgot to mentioned that I started taking animation mentor classes. After graduating from Ai I just felt like I needed more direction in order for me to reach my goal of becoming a Character Animator.The program they had at Ai was good but they emphasized on too many things and not just one. I didn’t want to be a jack of all trades and a master of none.So here I am starting an 18 month long journey learning everything there is to know about character animation from some of the best animators in the world :)!!

We didn't have any assignments for week 1, we just had to set up our profile and introduce ourselves to our mentor and other students. For week 2 we had to use our sketchbook, go to a public place and do some quick sketches of what we see in our surroundings. Sketches could be rough even stick figures are allowed just as long as it communicates ideas of posture, attitude, weight, balance, etc. We then had to circle our favorite pose and recreate that pose using the Stu rig. This rig by the way is kinda weird, it's kind of limited because it doesn't have any shoulder controls which kinda sucks because it would have really helped me out when I started posing this guy out. So I kinda cheated and translated his head down to make it appear as if he is shrugging. Doesn't look like it did much but it looks a lot better than having his head pointing straight up. Also, he doesn't have fk/ik switch for his arms which I found strange. I later found out from our mentor that they purposely made him that way so we can adjust to using both ik and fk which makes sense since most of the new students at AM have never touched Maya before.

2010-09-07T15:25:00.000-07:00

2010-08-26T19:04:00.000-07:00

requiem for a dream

2010-08-23T22:39:00.000-07:00

Untitled from Raymond Santos on Vimeo.

2010-08-17T12:42:00.000-07:00

Greaser Zombies

2010-06-28T00:25:00.000-07:00

Good Day

2010-06-23T02:05:00.000-07:00

Tree Creature

2010-06-06T01:04:00.000-07:00

Orlando Jones dialogue

2010-06-04T11:10:00.000-07:00

flash animation from Raymond Santos on Vimeo.

I havent done any real flash animation in a couple years now and I'm starting to regret because a lot of the places I've been applying for are looking for well rounded people that can create characters,backgrounds,assets,flash animation etc. I've lost a few opportunitues already just because I dind't have any flash on my reel. So I'm gunna to have to wip up a couple flash animations If I want to get hired anywhere.

2010-05-17T13:34:00.000-07:00

Cartoon Network Studios, Character Design Tests

2010-04-28T08:55:00.000-07:00

I needed to update my blog so I figured I post a couple character design tests I took while interning at Cartoon Network. Hope you guys like :)

2010-03-24T12:17:00.001-07:00

g-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r eaaatt!!!

2010-02-21T18:51:00.000-08:00

Desert Road

2010-02-06T16:51:00.000-08:00

Im in a background mood for some reason. Hope you guys like it :)

2010-01-27T18:31:00.001-08:00

life

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unda the sea

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whistle whistle

2009-11-17T19:39:00.001-08:00

bang

2009-11-17T19:28:00.000-08:00

my scanner sucks

2009-10-11T13:40:00.000-07:00

kung fu rabbit

2009-09-22T17:31:00.000-07:00

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reaction test

2009-08-31T19:33:00.000-07:00

lift test

2009-08-23T22:26:00.000-07:00

push test

2009-08-17T21:41:00.000-07:00

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some stuff im workin on for my web animation class

2009-08-05T11:10:00.000-07:00

I was shooting for a happy walk/skip

satyr

2009-07-31T21:49:00.000-07:00

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pappy

2009-07-01T13:31:00.000-07:00

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kids

2009-06-22T23:10:00.000-07:00

Mr.Incredible's long lost brother haha

2009-06-17T17:58:00.000-07:00

Sorry bout the crappy resolution, I didn't even render this guy out. I just did a print screen and put everything together in photoshop, lol.

Here's the character I used to model this guy, minus the hair.

dodo & quag

2009-06-14T16:31:00.000-07:00

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poop deck

2009-05-30T22:08:00.001-07:00

Some old characters, I upgraded the parrot though, the other one wasn't doing it for me. The parrot is actually my favorite out of this whole piece, haha. Hope you guys like. Later

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Blast from the Past

2009-05-15T15:18:00.001-07:00

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2009-05-05T22:28:00.000-07:00

This is our first project we had to do in our character modeling class. We had to pick some kind of quadruped type animal and model it in Maya. The anatomy isn't quite there but hey, gimme a break I've never done organic modeling before. I still want to bring it into zbrush to add more details and what not (still gotta learn that first). I hope to model one of my characters as soon as I get the chance.

gator doooooone

2009-04-14T18:03:00.000-07:00

I noticed that a lot of people have alligators on their blog so I figured I'll go ahead and draw some too. Hope you guys like em. See ya later alligator! (sorry, I couldn't resist)

another character in front of a tv haha

2009-03-27T20:09:00.001-07:00

Intro to Maya

2009-03-25T19:38:00.001-07:00

One of our projects was to model out a building in perspective so it can match up a photo pretty accurately. Then we had to project that photo onto the building and have a camera pass through the scene making the photo look 3D. I still have to put in a sky and fix the steps a little bit, but other than that I think it's coming along pretty well.

So our first assignment was to model a hand, and as you can see its kinda eeeehhhh. I'm taking character modeling next quarter so I hope to learn more techniques and what nots. I can't wait to model out one of my characters in 3D!

2009-03-14T15:03:00.000-07:00

oink oink

2009-03-06T20:44:00.001-08:00

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2009-02-22T11:48:00.000-08:00

almost forgot

2009-02-16T19:30:00.001-08:00

I never got around to post this (my lazy ass didn't want to go through the process of scanning it). These are just different versions of that wrestler guy I drew not to long ago.

throw backs

2009-02-12T20:16:00.001-08:00

Here are some stuff I did back in 07/08? But uhh yeah, just thought I keep this sucker updated.

Waaa-Tahhh

2009-01-29T18:15:00.000-08:00

I actually drew this in the beginning of the month but never got around to coloring it, so here you go, hope you guys like it.

Lets Wraaaastle!!!

2009-01-23T21:34:00.000-08:00

aminals

2009-01-22T21:26:00.001-08:00

keepin it rough

2009-01-18T18:27:00.000-08:00

New Classes

2009-01-15T18:09:00.000-08:00

New quarter started this week which means new classes! I'm taking Sculpture for Animation so that should be pretty interesting. Also taking Digital Illustration which by the way I was ten minutes late to on the first day because I was sitting in the classroom next door thinking I was in the right room, haha. I finally get to use Maya in my 3d Camera Technique class so that should be pretty fun. I'm use to using 3dsmax so I hope the transition won't be to difficult. I hear the interface between the two are pretty similar so getting use to shouldn't be too hard, plus the teacher seems like a really cool guy with tons of experience, check out what he's worked on http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418428/ . Last but not least I'm taking Advance Drawing for Animation with one of my favorite teachers Mike Rogers. He's worked for Nickelodeon for the most part of he's career as a background/layout/character designer as well as other various studios. I'm going to ask him about Red Giant our schools production team and see If I can get in and help work on a couple projects. He ask me to come help out last year but I was to busy with other classes and work so I never had the time. I'll try to post more school/personal work as the weeks go by, but until then here's a few designs I made of some random diner people.

quickie

2009-01-05T01:13:00.000-08:00

Here are some really quick sketches I did of some random faces. I'm going to try to do more brainstorm sketches, it's a pretty fun exercise, you guys should try it.

Wicked

2009-01-02T12:56:00.000-08:00

First post of the New Year! I recently saw Wicked at the Pantages Theatre over here in LA this past week with my gf and WOWEE is it good! So much energy and talent on the stage, it was amazing. Oh yea, and the guy that plays the neighbor from Married with Children played the Wizard, haha kind of random. I highly recommend you go see it, you wont regret. For the past few days all I could think of was witches so I decided to get it all out of my system by designing some. Here's what I came up with, hope you guys like.

Valkyrie

2008-12-27T15:20:00.000-08:00

I really want to watch this movie. I just saw a bunch of explosions and weapons being fired in the trailer and that's good enough for me. I think those are the key essentials to saving a bad movie, if its going bad just add a little explosion here and there and BAM!! you got yourself an oscar.

Merry Christmas

2008-12-21T22:43:00.001-08:00

Here's the cover of the Christmas card I made for my girlfriend. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!

"This is SPARTA!!!"

2008-12-17T21:38:00.001-08:00

3D stuff

2008-12-13T15:26:00.000-08:00

Here are some assignments I did in my material/lighting/modeling class using 3D Studio Max and Photoshop. I'm not really a 3D guy but I guess it's good to venture off to different mediums every once in awhile. I had lots of fun doing it and learned a grip, hope it helps me out in the future. But I can't wait to pick up a pencil and start drawing again, or should I say my wacom pen and cintiq!!! MUHAHA

Referenced from photo

Referenced from Pixar's Monsters Inc.

Referenced from Dreamworks Flushed Away

Referenced from Pixar's Ratatouille

Referenced from Disney's Meet the Robinsons

It's Alive!!!

2008-12-11T11:16:00.000-08:00

I was going through my flash drive and I saw these guys so I figure why not get distracted from doing my homework and post these guys up. Perfect time to be putting these characters up since Christmas is just around the corner huh.

RRRRRR

2008-12-10T23:46:00.000-08:00

Before you guys watch I'm gonna tell you now that I'm not much of an animator. There's a lot of stuff I need to fix, but I had fun doing it.

Well, I'm giving this blog thing another shot and hopefully this time I won't give up on it and end up deleting it again, haha. I wanted to call my blog raymondsantos.blogspot.com but some guy that only posted one thing back in 2005 already has it. I wonder if there's anyway to contact google and tell them to give me that url? Ehh, to late now, I guess I'm going to have to settle with what I got. But anyways, here is a pirate turnaround I designed for my 2D animation class in the beginning of October. I'll be posting up some older (new to you because you've never seen it, haha) and more recent designs as soon as I get the chance. I'm going to be almighty busy trying to finish up my finals, so this will have to do for now.