"from one clock animator, to another"

Just came back from a weekend at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, and that string of words from the mouth of Dean Wellins, the director of Tick Tock Tale, was the highlight of my weekend. Teddy Newton spelling my name wrong on the Day & Night poster was pretty awesome too. As was eating delicious Lebanese food, treating myself to beautiful Czech surrealism and films from the rest of the world. Even some of the weirdness was wonderful, especially with friends to watch them with. Not to forget the environment- I felt like I was back in Edinburgh again.

Have to go back.

Mr.Bean, done.

Final render. I realize the blend shapes at the end are just mushed up in the animation. We had to make a clip under 10 seconds and I have a million blend shapes. I'll go back and make a better clip of it.

But for now, here he is! I'm not too happy with how he turned out, but it went somewhere.

Mr. Bean Caricature Bust from Shreyasi Das on Vimeo.

mr. bean in color!

Still have to rig and animate!

caricature

Rowan Atkinson/Mr. Bean caricature in progress (ignore obnoxious grid running through his face). I'm so scared it's not going to end up looking like him. Here's what I started with