Finally AnimationMentor ALUMNI

For those who follow my blog, I'm Alive!!!

I have finished my journey at Animation Mentor... FINALLY ;D
& Super excited for the graduation this summer woohooo
I also moved to California mid of April, still looking for jobs though,
hoping preparation meets opportunity, can't wait to start my animation career :D

My personal website is up now, check it out www.ameermalkosh.com
at the moment I'm planning for new shots and will update you soon with my progress.

All I can say is that I'm so happy and proud of this achievement, It's just the foundations, a start of longer journey.

Special Thanks to my Mentors: Anthony Wong, Marlon Nowe, Nick Bruno, Jalil Sadool,
Jay Davis, Elliot Bour, Greg Whittaker, & Kevin Koch For all the knowledge and guidance, Many thanks to the AM Family, both students & staff for the continuous support and feedback, My parents for their help and encouragement, And finally THANKS to BOBBY BECK, SHAWN KELLY & CARLOS BAENA for creating such an AWESOME SCHOOL & COMMUNITY.

AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio Week 9

Oh My, few more weeks left to wrap this amazing learning experience, still too much to learn and experiment with, anyways here's my latest progress on the two dialogue shot followed by shots I may keep on my reel.

AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio Week 8

here's how the Valium shot have progressed this week

AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio Week 7

Here's what I did this week, still needs so much work



also posting the original scene from Death at a funeral. I had to cut some bits out to fit the assignment 15 second limit

AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio Week 6

Baby steps!

AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio Week 5

AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio Week 4

here's what I did for this week

AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio Week 3

I worked on pushing the exaggeration for the tennis shot, tweaked the spacing and the arcs, loosened up the animation a bit. While for the Valium shot, It's still muddy, but getting closer.

AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio Week 2

So based on last week's critique, Kevin advised me to start this term by flushing out the mechanics of the tennis serve shot, and on top of that shot to re-stage the "Valium"shot, It's still floaty,choppy & mechanical but less distracting.

AM Animal & Creature Animation Class

Today Animation Mentor announced the launch of the long waited Animal & Creature Animation Master Class,

Trailers & info about the class here

This Animals & Creatures course is over two 12-week classes, students learn how to animate quadrupeds, flying animals, fantasy creatures and nonhuman characters. Students use three new advanced character rigs provided by Animation Mentor and learn how to integrate animation into live-action footage. Students will learn professional workflow techniques and receive face-to-face mentoring from top creature animation talent working in the industry today. Students also have access to a rich library of lectures where animators examine their shots from feature films and share tricks of the trade!

AM's PURE AWESOMENESS :D

AM Class 6+: Polishing & Portfolio / Kevin Koch

My mentor for this class will be Kevin Koch; with 14 years in the animation biz. He started out doing traditional, hand-drawn animation, first at Warner Bros. Feature Animation, then at DreamWorks. While at DreamWorks he transitioned to CG animation, and worked on 'Shrek 2,' 'Madagascar,' and 'Over the Hedge.' Most recently he animated on 'Rio' at Blue Sky Studios, and he's now at Rhythm &Hues on 'Hop.'


Just submitted the first assignment for this class, a compilation of almost all the shots I did at AM, the first 4 are my pick for what I think of as "Money Shots" ( of course when polished end of this class).

I'm extremely excited to start this class now that I have the graph editor on my side :D also having a chance to be a full-time student is a HUGE bless I'm very THANKFUL for my PARENTS support.

on the down side the internet is VERY SLOW here in JORDAN!!! I'll upload the reel tomorrow,