Crooked Grind Animation
Skateboarding Animation
I did this animation by the "straight ahead animation" method, which means, animating from the beginning to the end with as much detail as possible. I did end up going back and doing a few finishing passes on it, but it wasn't a pose to pose (blocking, blocking +, spline, finishing) animation. I found this way of animation was better for some reason on this project, but I do usually do my pose to pose animation when starting. As for the overall feel of this animation? I think it's good... Maybe the kickflip at the end could be a little quicker."Are you a pothead?" Animation
3D Character Animation
In this animated video, I have taken an audio clip from the movie Meet the Fockers, and used the Morpheus and Elevin (?) rigs, just to give me a little more character animation practice. My animation was to focus on a more natural or organic feel for the characters, though they are still a little bit stiff and jumpy. I stopped short on this animation I feel, I could have made it a little smoother, but, I would like to start another animation project.See ya then! "Are you a pothead?"
Deceiving Squirrel Animation
3D Squirrel Animation
This was my first ever animation entry to the 11 Second Club animation competition. I can only do animation in my free time, and with a full time job, a wife and three kids, my animation time slot is hard to come by. None the less, over a month I spent around 25 to 30 hours on the animation, which wasn't really enough. I thought I would get a better rating for it, but I will take the 150th place out of 197 animations. I do appreciate all of the tips and advice from the other animators, they will help me further my technique in animation.Drunk Fox Character Animation
Fox Character Animation
This was the first animation Iworked on for the 11 Second Club competition. Unfortunately, a few days before rendering my animation and submitting my animation, my computer decided to die on me, so, I had to wait a couple of weeks before I could actually render it. All in all, I am proud of this animation. I feel I spent more time on this animation compared to the one above. What seemed to be really ironic, was the animation that won the competition that month, was the exact same scene with a rabbit instead of a fox, though it was done in 2d animation I believe. Oh well, another animation that gave me more practice.
I actually sent this to an animation studio and the response was "Has this been done in MoCap?" At the time, having no experience in the animation industry and never doing MoCap animation, I had no idea what he was talking about. I quickly researched it before I replied. After the initial question he then stated "Thats good if it is!" This was done by pure keyframe animation, so, that being said, what do you think he meant by that? Good, like, it's a good animation, or good, like, it needs some finalizing after the mocap? Let me know what you think.
