Those pesky werewolf curses...

A piece I did for KaiserWilliams on DA.

The lines:



The finished piece:

Hey Taxi!

An assignment for my Character Animation class. The assignment was to animate a character walking forward and talking. I think the walk cycle turned out alright the legs are still a bit jumpy. The point where the character waves still needs much work and I'd like to incorporate more acting in to the animation as it seems the character itself doesn't really have a ton of life to it. So I'll be working on it over the next few weeks, shoot I might even redo it with a different audio clip (...yeah that's me talking in the vid ha! ) Also, sorry for the poor video quality alot of small detail in the face and body movement is hard to see.



Here is a sketch I did for another artist on Deviant Art. We did an art trade and this was my half. The characters belong to him but the drawing was done by me.

Here are just the lines-


And with colors-

Dynamics

Been playing with nCloth and Dynamics in my 3D Visual Effects class. We've been working on a pirate ship for the pass week or two. We were to make the sails billow out and the ropes swing around as well as animate the ship bobbing back and forth here's what I have so far.



Here's also a test I did before working on the ropes for the ship. It's just a simple bridge breaking and swinging down.

Lipsync warm up

Just something we did as a refresher in lipsyncing in my Character Animation class today. About 45 minutes of work, it could use improving especially with the face overall, but since this was just a warm-up, it's ok as-is.

More Crows development

So I'm really pleased that I've been able to keep up the pace for this. Usually I run out of steam with ideas like this pretty quick and end up abandoning them. I'm hoping to have a definite story for this down by the end of the week. In the mean time here are some character turn arounds and some environment tests. You might need to click on the images to see them full size.

Set Sketch

Well, the other day I was trying to do some storyboards for my production team's cinematic and I was having a hard time drawing out the main villain Set, who is a big red Hippo...guy ha! So I decided to set the boards aside and take the time to figure out his shapes and body in my own style rather than trying to copy the concept artists style, so it would overall be easier on me. I ended up drawing more than I meant to and I rather like the end result.

I'm gonna try and tackle those boards again today now that I feel more comfortable with drawing this red hippo villain.

Crows concept art and Brainstorm Logos

I've decided that I want to do a short moving illustration animation for my demo reel. If you don't know what a moving illustration is well it's a bit hard to describe so instead I'll show you an example.



Pretty neat right? Well my little animation is going to be called "Crows" I've not yet settled on a definite story and for all I know the title might change as well but I can tell you that it will involve a little boy and a scarecrow. Here's some sketches I did today. I'm trying to get a style for it down. I think I want it alittle grittier and a bit more obscure as far as stylizing goes but we'll see.



I've also been working on some logos for my pre-production team. Our "studio" is called Brainstorm Animation which we all decided on last week. So here are some of logos I did. We'll find out tomorrow if one of these gets picked for the logo or if we go with another teammates design. They're alittle rough I'll probably go back and edit them digitally.




And finally just something I sketched while watching the movie "White Out"

New Quarter and new projects

Well a new quarter started up for me and I'm feeling really excited for this new start. I've recovered from my last quarter defeat and I'm ready to jump in to the fray of the Fall Quarter.

I've got quite a few project heavy classes 3D Visual Effects, Character Animation, and Pre-Production team and of course the obligatory Gen-Ed Critical Thinking. I had a fourth project class Advanced Lighting and Texture but I opted to drop that class so I could have more time to spend making my assignments look the best they can rather than rushing to get everything done in time. I'll be retaking that texture class next quarter.

I'll also be working on some portfolio pieces to put in my demo reel. The count down to graduation has begun! I should be graduating in 9 months time if all goes as planned. I already had to push my graduation date back so I could find the time to work on some pieces so hopefully that extra time will give me the energy to work on my reel.

My Animation Pre-production team has me very very excited. My team is working with the next Senior Game Production team. We'll be doing an opening cinematic for their epic stealth/adventure game. I'm really looking forward to animating some battle scenes with the characters that they have designed. I'm usually very apprehensive when it comes to modeling/texturing or generally anything that involves a 3D program but this really has me hyped and eager to work on the project. I'll keep you posted with art/models/animation previews as we go!

That comic concept I mentioned previously is going well my Co-creator and I made alot of Headway with story and character development over our vacation. You can look froward to more work with that also as we get more of that fleshed out.

That's all for now I'll leave you with a couple drawings that I did over my break.

The Monk and the Monkey

So I found this fantastic little animated short while browsing around YouTube today. It's called "The Monk and the Monkey" it's a very well put together short with some superb animation. The backgrounds for this are just breathtaking and it has a very heart warming story to it. It's definitely worth checking out!



Here are some stills!






And the scene breakdown

The Monk & The Monkey breakdown from Brendan Carroll on Vimeo.