It really works...for now

Busy. That's probably the best word to describe me right now. I'll probably get back to finishing the textures on the boat, but I got sidetracked by a fun animation project I did in my spare time. Here is the rough animation I did on some audio I got from the 11 Second Club. Working on tweaking and polishing right now. But I must discipline myself to get this thing rendered...anyway, enjoy!

More rigging stuff

Here are some samples of more of my rigging work that I did over the summer. I feel like a mad scientist now, after doing this...enjoy!



Houdini Master 10.0.381

Rigging a rig

I've been an intern at Side Effects Software for the past couple of months. They're the geniuses that make a program called Houdini, which is a major player in the 3D animation business. I chose to beef up my rigging and effects skills, and here's an early test animation that I did using a full body muscle rig that I've been developing for a while. This was actually done a month ago, but now I'm allowed to actually show it. Enjoy!




Front View




Back View

Houdini Master 10

Animation - Help Me...

So much to do, so much happening so fast...while I get my demo reel ready and pray for a decent internship this coming summer, here's an animation I did as an extra piece for my reel. The rigged character file was created by Chris Caufield, and I got the sound clip from "Talladega Nights". It's in playblast form at the moment, but I might polish it up with lighting, etc, if I have the time. Meanwhile, enjoy!

Autodesk Maya 2008

Animation - Someone as smart as you...

Here's a little something I've been working on for a while now alongside my action analysis project. My Maya teacher, the incredible Mike Watters provided this rigged character for us to animate to a 10 sec audio clip. I chose the clip from the movie "Back to Gaya". Enjoy!

Animation - Walking Snob

Just doing something a little different with a walk cycle assignment I had in one of my classes. The character was modeled and rigged by my teacher, Mike Watters, and I animated it. I'll probably tweak it a bit later, but enjoy!



Autodesk Maya 2008

Ball and Chain

Just a couple of simple exercises I did in Houdini to animate. I've been spending the last while trying to translate the things I learn about animating in Maya to Houdini to see how well they will understand each other. So far it's not so bad, but it gets weirder with each step. Anyway, here's a bouncing ball:



Bouncing ball

And here's a swinging chain:



Swinging chain

Yours to behold...and hopefully enjoy!

Animation - We're All Lucky

My final animation assignment for the year: take a character with a beak and animate it talking and acting to an audio track. I grabbed this sound clip from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". I had a lot of fun doing this, and despite that I rushed it and there are some things about it that I would fix, I still like this one. I hope you do too!

Animation - It's Not Your Fault

It is my fault for not posting for so long, however. :( Anyway, here's another pencil test animation assignment I did. I had to take a character with a muzzle and animate it to a sound clip from a movie. I got this one from "Good Will Hunting". Here is the result:

Animation - I Will Not Apologize

Assignment: Take a line from a movie and animate a character acting out the line. I snagged this quote from the movie "Magnolia". I went through a lot of pain and anguish trying to get this as close as possible to the way I hoped it would look. So here it is to behold in all of its oddity. Enjoy!

Talk Glad

Here's my lip sync animation assignment where I had to animate lips talking to a line from "Toy Story". Lips are flapping and sound is coming out...but does it make sense?

Walk Mad

Here's a simple loop animation of an angry walk. I kinda liked this one, and most of my classmates did. I hope you do too...

Everyone else is doing it, so...

...why shouldn't I post my animations on my blog too? :) Here's the first one I did this semester - a flour sack riding water waves in a small boat. Everything about animation I learned about in first year...but was afraid to show.

An Easy, Pink Day

Oh, the beloved Pink Panther. Here he is just taking an easy stroll through the park. My first animation project for the second semester. Animated on paper, then coloured in Toon Boom Solo, then finally composited in After Effects, and edited in Premiere Pro.