New reel!

Just updated my demo reel with animation from last quarter and a pretty fly Swedish swing/rap soundtrack. For your viewing pleasure:

this is it

This finals was crazy intense, but happily this got at least a little finished. Much love to Malachi Graham for the inspiring song; I can't wait for this music video to be a reality <3

Norovirus!

So in the midst of all the madness of this quarter, I got the opportunity to do a test animation for the amazing Lauren Brown, who is pitching a series idea to Warner Brothers. Norovirus, the main character, is a sentient computer virus on the run from the organization that created her. She was super fun to animate!

Mighty fine!

Finals are kicking my butt! In a great way that means I will hopefully come out of it a better artist :)
Here's my character animation final, using a quote from O Brother Where Art Thou and a character from Secret of Kells. This hasn't been critiqued yet, so I'm sure edits are on the way!

I'm not dead yet!

From my Vimeo description:
"No girl wants to marry a doctor who can't tell if a man's dead or not."
Thus spoke the fine Mr. Robert Downey Jr. in the recent Sherlock Holmes movie. I built and animated this plague doctor and his corpsey friend as a dialogue exercise in Flash CS5. If you're familiar with the beautiful Secret of Kells, you can probably tell that I was heavily inspired by the aesthetics of that film. I really love that flat, illustrative style they brought to the animation, and Flash provided a good opportunity to experiment with that without having to go though the entire frame-by-frame cleanup/ink-and-paint process that would be the norm for hand drawn animation.

Look out!

WOW things are getting pretty crazy there is hardly time to think or any such nonsense but here have a new animation!

It is a reel for demonstration

So that animation expo at the end of the quarter, where we shall hopefully get a glimpse of future shenanigans in the world of employment... There's a screening process for interviews, and demo reels and portfolios were due today - here's a link to the reel I threw together for the occasion!


It's actually a little unfortunate that it's due now, because what with the classes I'm in this quarter I feel like I'll be producing a lot better animation very soon. Oh well! It is all a process :)

Mushu - The Final Cut!

It took a lot of edits, but finally I've got a finalized version of my Mushu head turn. It sort of feels like real animation now, I think! At the very least it's a huge improvement over my very first version, and I learned a lot in the process, so what more could I ask?

Mido Mountain

Oh yes I have made some Animations in Flash! The second project for Digicel was an abstract music video, which I present for your viewing pleasure:



The music was Mido Mountain, a rendition of a traditional Chinese tune by YoYo Ma. There was just so much great movement in the music that I couldn't turn it down, even though the clip was a bit long. I definitely learned a ton about using Flash by working through this video - it was a great excuse to play around with the program!

Mushu head turn

First assignment for Character I with Webber: the Mushu head turn! Focusing on breakdowns and overlapping action.

EDIT: updated version with a few new corrections!