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New phone: now connected 24/7

Alex — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:02:33 +0000

Testing out the functionality of the wordpress app on my new phone! Looks like it works which is a good thing.

New demo reel!

Alex — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:26:10 +0000

I’ve updated my demo reel with some new shots and exercises. I also updated it on the demo reel page. Please, have a look:

Bloggy update =D

Alex — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:06:15 +0000

Redid the design of this blog, which it was pretty overdue for. After about 3 years I feel like it kinda needed it. And I thought it was also a good time to kind of check in!

I’m living in San Francisco now and this city is amazing! I can’t wait to get out and explore it more and see all the amazing stuff it has to offer. Since I got here, not even 2 weeks have passed so everything is still new to me, but I like it a lot. Hopefully I’ll be able to stay out here for a lot longer!

Anyways, I’ll be in touch.

I’m home!

Alex — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:43:04 +0000

I got back to Minnesota a week ago and have been traveling around, seeing friends, etc. I’m here in Minnesota for one more week before making my next step. I haven’t 100% decided what it is it, but it’s probably going to be out in San Francisco.

Almost time to go back to America!

Alex — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:39:32 +0000

I just moved out of my apartment yesterday and will be couch surfing in Japan for about a week before going back to America and starting a new life again. Unfortunately I never really updated my blog, mostly because nothing really interesting enough ever happened. Mostly just a lot of English classes to kids who didn’t want to learn English.

Anyways, I’m not doing anything now so I thought I’d check in. I really wanna give this website a design overhaul. We’ll see how that goes.

BLOG TIME!

Alex — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:29:38 +0000

Hey everyone! I’m just finishing up winter semester this week, and I had a pretty good couple of months so far in 2011. Here’s some photos of stuff I’ve been doing in the past few weeks!

That first one is some chirashizushi my English conversation group made and that second one is from a St. Patrick’s Day event that a local bar put on. Both were great fun! Starting tomorrow I only have two more days of work before 2 glorious weeks of spring break!

Quick sketch before bed

Alex — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:32:05 +0000

Studying some more muscles and I tried to apply it to a character. It didn’t turn out so well but I’m gonna go ahead and throw it up here anyways. Need to keep practicing practicing practicing!

Starting to mess with muscles!

Alex — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:04:03 +0000

So in my never ending quest to learn more about the human body so I can draw/animate it better, I spent just about 30 minutes tonight studying muscles. I just downloaded some pictures online and then traced them, so they’re nothing special, but it’s a lot of fun to learn about. It’ll be interesting to see what happens after I study these for a while and then apply them to drawings

Just the arms tonight, but expect more of these!

Some figure drawing!

Alex — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:51:48 +0000

I’ve been going to a figure drawing class at Osaka whenever I’ve had some free time recently. Here’s some of the best sketches I came up with today:

I really need to get a scanner or something.

Weight Shift!

Alex — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:10:19 +0000

I took a short trip to Tokyo the past couple days so I wasn’t able to make anything new. But I worked on this short animation exercise for a few hours today. It’s a very simple weight shift exercise where the character simply shifts his weight from one leg to the other. It’s not entertaining which I apologize for, but it was good to learn! I still have some problems with weight and balance in animation, so I’d like to practice more and more.

Untitled from Alex Harms on Vimeo.

Oh and as long as we’re posting animations, here is a run cycle that I did towards the end of my last class at Animation Mentor. It turned out pretty decent, from here I’d like to create some more run cycles and try to insert some more character into them:

Untitled from Alex Harms on Vimeo.