Uri Lotan

Ketchup Time!

2011-11-27T21:45:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I posted anything here!

Lots of things have happened since my last update.

This summer I had the most amazing opportunity to take part in the Pixar Animation Internship. It was tons of fun!

Kind of a side story here, but when I was young my grand-mother would always ask me, how are things, and I would respond "this and that ..and.." and out of nowhere she would cut me off, and say, "Are the people good?" and I would respond "Yea I guess!". and she would always say without fail - that's all that matters.

And the best part of this summer was without a doubt the great people I got to meet, both interns and mentors! Thank you all for such a great summer!

Here is my Animation reel from the summer. It was such a learning experience, I figured I'd put everything I did throughout the program. The good, the bad and the ugly.

So far, things have been pretty busy Senior Year. I'm working as part of a group thesis project with my good friends Elizabeth and Adam. It's really exciting! This thing (our film) is slowly coming to life! I can't say too much, but I do have a tiny little tease of an image to share. Hope you enjoy!

till next time,
Uri.

Chips?

2011-04-06T14:56:00.000-07:00

chips.. chips.. om nom nom.

Hope you like! :)

Little me

2011-03-23T19:58:00.000-07:00

Summer seems to be heading our direction. exciting!

I don't have as much hair now, sadly.. but life goes on.
there should be some Animation of this guy pretty soon :D

Color...yay!

2010-12-10T19:51:00.000-08:00

A painting we had just completed, it was a great experience
to try and go for a more graphic look, Thanks a lot for the tips Stevie

Push n Pull

2010-11-21T11:04:00.000-08:00

Animation.. been a while :)

Hope you enjoy! :D

Pushpull from Uri Lotan on Vimeo.

Junior year!

2010-10-26T23:31:00.000-07:00

Hello world, has been a while.
Junior year has been a blast, each assignment
has tons of stuff going for it, it's has just been great.

meet, well me, this is my self-caricature design, we'll be modeling/animating
these next semester, lots of fun :)

Hopefully I'll have some animation to show pretty soon :)
bye bye!

The end of summer!

2010-08-18T05:46:00.000-07:00

Summer has been great, so many good times!
But it's time to pack up and head back to school.
Time to become a Junior.. ehhh scary. hopefully it'll work out.

See everyone pretty soon! :)

And in the mean while, some hippies.

Some sketches

2010-07-31T07:33:00.000-07:00

I was sitting in a little coffee shop in Tel-Aviv
when this Angry/Sad rocker type guy came and sat a few
tables a way from me. at the end he saw I was drawing
him and asked to see the sketches, it was a wierd
situation but he liked it. so over all fun time! :D

This one guy

2010-07-12T10:12:00.000-07:00

I met a guy. he was buff and had long hair and looked a bit like a monkey.
but the best part without a doubt was his skinny jeans shorts.

Summer times

2010-07-05T08:24:00.000-07:00

School has been over for almost two months now, it has been a really amazing year! so far summer has been really interesting and has been going to a lot of unexpected directions. and between things I try to draw animate or anything productive. (emphasis should be put to the Try :D )

I have been obsessing with Gangsters lately!
here's are some sketches.

Everyone, have a great great summer!! see you all soon.

Scarrry!

2010-04-29T14:02:00.000-07:00

Scary Cemetery attempt.
was fun to try to push colors and atmosphere.

Grave yard from Uri Lotan on Vimeo.

My new friend!

2010-04-12T23:25:00.000-07:00

Meet Claudio, a fellah I met in Italy. :)
His little story will come pretty soon as well!

some animation!

2010-03-04T18:10:00.000-08:00

The first assignment this semester was a series of quick animation with a character supplied by school. So many things I would like to completely change but I guess that's how it is always going to be.

As always, Crits are more then welcomed!

Have an awesome weekend :D

Quad assingments from Uri Lotan on Vimeo.

Another semester done! :)

2009-12-15T11:15:00.000-08:00

Yay, the semester is over. It was a really tough semester, intense
And I've learned so much in such a short time, it was great!
But it's time to get some rest :)

Here is some stuff I have been working the last couple of weeks

For computer animation We have been working on a simple polygonal character, without hands on legs and a torso, and have a few simple mechanical animations with him the first were A walk and a Jump, we were also supposed to complete a turn but sadly we ran out of time. So here it is:

Simple poly from Uri Lotan on Vimeo.

For Concept we completed our first original animatic, the premise was simple "someone is trying take a bite of your dinner" and this was my interpretation, a story about a little kid, a monster, and some chocolate.

Hope you enjoy:

Thief from Uri Lotan on Vimeo.

Here is some stuff from figure from the last semester.

Primitive Theater

2009-10-29T01:24:00.000-07:00

This was just a great proejct.

Hope you enjoy! :)

Primitive theater from Uri Lotan on Vimeo.

Ball Bounce

2009-09-25T23:50:00.000-07:00

First CA assignment, so fun :)

Untitled from Uri Lotan on Vimeo.

Pilot

2009-07-16T06:40:00.000-07:00

Started working on this new character, He's inspired by Pilots from around ww2.

From the Sketchbook

2009-07-02T05:56:00.000-07:00

An year just went by

2009-05-05T11:50:00.000-07:00

Freshman year has officially ended.
it's been a blast! Can't wait for next semester.

As a side note, a little break is always nice ;)

Here are the last two Animation Assignments.

A Raccoon..?

2009-04-20T22:30:00.001-07:00

Haven't updated in a while. a lot of great things have happened lately.
We started animating Full biped characters which is really exciting.
This is my character design of a Raccoon Named Menash.
We worked on a pencil test revolving our character jumping.Sadly I rushed the facial and tail on account of time management, and it shows :( Also a "dry" walkcycle as an intro to the subject.

Jumping' Jumping'

2009-02-20T13:24:00.000-08:00

Another flour sack animation, this one was much more open minded, and we could take it in many directions. I tried to focus on making the flour sack readable and believable in his actions.

Hope you like! :)

Traditional animation..!

2009-02-03T15:23:00.000-08:00

We have began animating, I can't even explain how great it's been so far. here are a few of the exercises we have been working on lately.

Ball Bounce.

And a Jumping Flour-sack.

Figure

2008-12-02T09:56:00.000-08:00

first semester is coming to an end. There is so much to learn and improve, it's really motivating. Here are some of my last figure drawing, mainly gestures.

Lada ( Facial project).

2008-09-15T19:25:00.000-07:00

Lada is a very old project I never got to finish.
he went from one software to another, right now he's fully
rigged & shader in Maya, hopefully in the near time i'll finally
get to animate him :)

Here is a Blend shape test:

Right Click and Save as (Quicktime).

Geronimo Projects

2008-09-12T15:30:00.005-07:00

The following projects were done under Geronimo post&Design.
I was in-charage of modeling, rigging and animation.

titulim space:

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Titulim pacifier:

Right click and save as

Elal Wings:

Ah, we finihsed tihs project, last week was extremely tense, but it ended up pretty nice so it was worth it.. fun and very demanding project, hope you enjoy it.

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Elal - Making off (Right click and Save as)

Lada (Breakdown)

2008-09-12T15:30:00.001-07:00

here are a couple of steps in the lada project.
(Screen shots and renders).

Facial Rig Demo (Quicktime):
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Phish

2008-09-12T14:46:00.000-07:00

This is a little project I began to mainly focus on rigging.
The idea was to create a simple cartoony character and rig him
accoringly. The Concept was created by the talented Jarret young.

Rig Demo (WMV - ScreenCapture):
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