End of Senior Year

Schools out and the Film is DONE!


This is BREACH,
I did about half the animation on this monster but the whole thing was a team effort. I learned a ton on this project, some of the most important lessons I learned have to be the highs and the lows of working on a team and balancing a team dynamic. It was a ton of work and I am really pleased with how it turned out. Enjoy!



The Team!
Brant Andrist
Neil Berard
Jacob Hinds
Mark Sheppard
Tyler Woods
Grant Lamb

*This is shot from my current senior project. Only the animation is mine. All other assets where created by my team.

A bit of context: Boris's attempt to stop the robotic arm is not going so well as he is thrown into towards incinerator. Worried about his would be hero Cadbury rushes to aid Boris before the arm strikes again.

Also! Be sure to check out the official team blog, dppennyfarthing.blogspot.com

Project update

This is shot from my current senior project. Only the animation is mine. All other assests where created by my team.

A bit of context.. A large and strange machine has started in the lab. The sudden movement surprises and confuses Boris.


Odd ratio, You'll wanna make it full screen.

Tuesday!

Found some free time and a free rig so I made this quick walk. I like how simple this rig and the animation took no time at all.

Double Fence Jump

Did a quick little jump animation for an assignment. This one plays three times because of just how short it is.

Spider Bot Walk

Boris Update

So we just passed the first Midterm point in our senior project, and there are still a few finishing touches to be made on our 2d animatic. Put we aren't gonna waste any time bocking in our 3d animatic and now the <a href="http://www.neilberard.com/">Neil Berard</a> has sent me an update rig and model I get to test everything and start blocking in.

When ever I have a little free time I load up a rig and do a quick walk or run cycle. This is the most recent one with the new and improved Boris.

Tae Kwon Do Three Kick Attack

Kicking combo

So this is where I'm at in my Tae Kwon Do animation, I have the three kicks in place and working together.

Turning Front Side Kick

This is the first kick so far. The kick itself wasn't hard but figuring out how to flow into another kick has been hard. Lots of reference and lots of sketches.

Tae kwon do Idle

Starting a set of Tae kwon do inspired animations hopefully ending in a 3 kick attack. In class today one of the students who has a black belt in Tae kwon do demonstrated and posed for the class. Doing this got me excited to move on to some kicks.

Boris's beginnings

Well this is a rough animation with a rough model with bad skinning. That said, meet Boris. He is the star of our senior film.

Revisiting my past

This is Harlem Sunset again, I always intended on adding a shadow and I really wanted to add some more fear to the animation itself. So this is it! Enjoy

Sad Walk

Keep that chin up. Its a new animation!

Parkour Climber

So this summer has been busy. I have spent most my time testing at Nintendo, but in my free time I've managed to, go river rafting; get my motorcycle endorsement and I purchased a 1981 Honda cm400t; and I've attended both Student Association and my Senior team meetings.

The one thing I've really missed doing was animating. So here we go; this last week I started a streamlined animation process (I wung it). I found some vid ref, opened up Maya and had at it.

Parkour also know as free running is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment. Basically its running and climbing over objects in really cool ways.

This is the results so far.

Day 1


Day 2


Day 3
This got slowed way down...


Day 4
On its way.

Ladies!

Pride

This is the final for my projects class, 4 months of work down and this is what I have to show.

Blocking plus

Smell your Armpits

This is the block in for my final dialog in Ani350.

Its coming

This is the first 4 secs of my Pride animation, I rendered this out to see how the colors worked and I needed to time out the camera move