John Pierro

This is a progression of a scene I did showing various stages of concept and production. The whole project is a concept project with no fina...

Ok, on this pass as you can probably see I began to work on some of the animation for the character he is riding. I wanted to get the over a...

Ok, here's my next installment of my test. I consider this my layout pass. Very quick poses to stage the character and work with the cam...

So here's my concept pass and some reference with a quick pass to analyze it and a look at the quick rigging job I did on the thang flyi...

So here's a look at me throwing a different idea into the mix here for the layout. I want to have something to start playing around with...

Alright, I pushed forward and reworked my poses with the aid of the grease pencil sketches and then dove in and added some fun stuff for him...

Ok, moving forward and reevaluating my animation. I jumped right in and started pushing this towards completion, rethought my camera and wan...

Ok, second pass. I'll try and finish this up quick from here on, so I can have time to start playing with rendering. These next few test...

Ok, here's pass one. This is a bit of a hybrid scene, more concept than animation. The timing is from my thumbnail pass. I'll worry ...

Quick look at the scene set up. This is me testing some ideas on how I might create my interactions with my characters world. I've alway...

I have talked about the benefits of creating, analyzing, & using reference; last month, the value in copying animation, this month's...

Here's the progression from clip & analysis, to Keys & Breakdowns, & not quite the finish, but as far as I had time to take ...

Ok 5th Pass. Having fun with arcing Timmy's hands, seems appropriate for him with those arms and hands, and hell it's just fun. More...

Ok, 4th pass. Out of stepped. I pretty much stuck to the timing and spacing from the clip and use of slow-outs & slow-ins, poses on 2...

Another pass, adding some breakdowns in. I'm posting these in stepped, but I work out of stepped, using mayas in-betweens to help create...

Ok guys, 2nd pass, Really 3rd. 1st pass, consisted of a quick ruff out and then a 2nd pass on the keys. This pass has the rest of the keys i...

Ok 3DA2 1609 For this month's scene I decided to use a piece of animation and recreate it with my rig. If this is something you have not...

Ok, this is as far as I had time to make it this month. Much too long of a scene to finish in time. Good lesson for everyone, including me, ...

Ok, so this is the scene out of stepped after I've taken a run through it and Broken it down more, slow-ins, moving holds, more breakdow...

Ok, as you have seen in class, I've been showing you where I am now with my scene. It's out of stepped, and I'm as I termed it w...

Ok, 3rd pass. Adding in the major breakdowns at this point. For my students, keep in mind how important Breakdowns are in animation. They ar...

Ok, Second pass. I laid in my next pass of keys. I call them lesser keys, which consist of other anticipations,& keys, which I felt coul...

So I'll just write this from the point of view of talking with my students. At this point don't worry about seeing your animation mo...

So this is the start of the August Portfolio 2 class I am teaching at FullSail University. I plan to post the animation and process I do eac...

2 more for the pile, would be nice to start doing some large paintings like this, and getting back to some sculptures in this realm.

Taking advantage of a little time off at thanksgiving to do a couple of drawings

  "Winds of change"

Just 1196 left and I'll get started on some real drawings. I had better pick up the pace a bit.