Animation Reel 2014!

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Took the privacy settings off my demo reel! All clips are from my thesis film "Texting While Trolling", which will premiere online in the next few days!

Flat Portfolio - 2014

 

It's me.

The past few weeks have been dedicated to developing a self caricature to model and animate for next semester.

This page has bonus chickens. 

Silhouette Animation

This was our first animation "warm up" assignment of junior year. I had a lot of fun with squash and stretch in this one.

And here are some random doodles for kicks:

Laboratory

Here is a collection of work from our first Drawing for Animators assignment. We had to develop characters out of silhouettes, doodles, and textures.

Here are some of my favorites out of the 100 silhouettes. 

And here is the rag tag team of weirdos that came out of this assignment. I had a lot of fun creating these guys. 

Final rendered characters: 

Full Process: 

An addiction to dry brushes

Fun with fighter pilots and crayon brushes.

Some more drawin's

Some assorted drawings from my concept class and other random things from this past school year:

What a cutie.

Alligator Sit Stand

Our Sit/Stand project in Computer Animation 2 was the biggest project of the year. This assignment is the culmination of everything I've learned in my first year using Maya. The 2 and a half months of work it took to finish this project were challenging, at times very stressful, and in the end incredibly rewarding. Here is some of my process work:

I started out with a simple alligator farmer design.

I knew from the start that my biggest challenge of the assignment would be modeling and rigging a character with a snout and tail. So with those obstacles in mind I made sure to keep aspects like the environment very simple.

I learned a lot about lighting and texturing throughout this assignment and I think the short ended up with the bright, cartoony aesthetic I was going for.

And here's the final piece!

Sharky Shark Simple Poly

Here are my original designs for our final assignment in Computer Animation 1.

I ended up going with the shark.

I was really happy with how the finished model turned out and this ended up being one of my favorite assignments of the year.

Concept Animatics

Here are a few of my favorite animatics from my Concept Development classes this year.

I finally found a way to incorporate my love of pugs and leather jackets into one piece:

First Post!

So this is my first post! It's about time I make an art blog. Now that I've finished my first month as a sophomore computer animation student at Ringling College of Art and Design I feel like I have plenty to post. So i'm going to kick off this blog with some character designs from Concept 1 and Traditional Animation 1 & 2.