Finally finished my Demo Reel

Well that time has finally arrived. I have finished my Demo Reel and I will be graduating February 4th 2011. As excited as I may be about these two events I am even more excited about the following. I have been given the honor by my Course Directors to be a guest speaker at the Orientation for new students starting their Full Sail career next week. My demo reel will be shown and I will be giving a speech. And if that is not enough. After I graduate I will be interning with Kathy Blackmore in the 2D animation department. I am really happy that all of my work is coming together. But, even more pleased with the fact that I am believe I am getting better as an animator and producing work that is entertaining.

Demo Reel




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Starting the BreakDown pass

Started the BreakDown pass last Friday, but because I came down with a chest cold over the weekend. I have been too busy trying to get over it to work. This week and little of the week to follow before the animation is due will be straight ahead animation.Working in Linear now with the major BreakDown poses. The rest will be getting the spacing to respect the timing I am going for. And trying to get as much character in the animation as possible. We will see what happens.

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Blockout 2nd pass

I finished the Blockout Phase second pass. This is the animation with all of the storytelling poses, major keys, and anticipation poses. Spending a lot of time working on poses to try and ensure that my foundation for the animation is a strong one. I will be moving into linear now. I am going to work on some charts and thumbnails for the breakdowns. Than really starting to get into the animation. You can check the video out here Blockout 2nd pass

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1st Blockout Asset 2

Just started working on my new asset for this month. It is a 15 second lip sync, and is my asset two for the finals department. The month before last I had tried a new workflow that in theory was sound. But, ended up blowing up in my face. So I was sent back to ANP to do pre-production for a new asset. I am now back in PCC-2 and working on this one. I would also like to mention that rather than spreading myself thin again and working on numerous side projects I am going to be dedicating myself to the task at hand which is PCC-2 (portfolio content creation) and the assets that will be going on my demoreel. With that said, I cannot really comment on what will be happening with my 2D projects and the other self appropriated assignments. I am solely focusing on the demoreel assets.

With that said Check out the 1st blockout pass of asset two. Storytelling poses and a couple keys

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New Demo Reel Rough Cut

Well, I have not been on the blog lately. Reason being I have been back in Animation Pre-Production to get together another asset for my demoreel. None of my assets are finished but this is a new version and a preview of what the reel will be once the shots are animated and rendered. Hope you enjoy Demoreel Rough Cut

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Werewolf Scene Submitted

Well earlier I mentioned that I was working on a Werewolf animation. The Werewolf rig was provided by my rigging friend Derek McAtavey. He asked me to do a scene to show off the capabilities of the rig. I had a short amount of time and many other things to juggle at the same time. So, this is what I submitted to him. It is not the greatest piece I have done, but I have also not done that many scenes. I am still learning, and fundamentally I think everything is there it just is not finished and polished like I had planned. Sometimes the deadline is more important than the work. Well take a look and tell me what you think.
Werewolf animation

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Asset 1 Finished

Well, as far as finished I can not testify to the validity. But, I must be honest that it is the best piece of animation that I have ever done. I do not say that pride. It is just, this is the best scene that I feel I can do right now. Hopefully this month I will ascend that. I will most likely revisit this asset after a few exit critiques and if time permits. Right now I have to finish this Werewolf animation and the Team Barracuda project (which is the 8 bit type game project), as well as all the 2D projects that need to be more than well underway by next week, and sooner or later I will have to finish some other stuff that I have not even mentioned. Exhausted just thinking about it all. Well got to get to work. Here is the link to the final video of Asset 1

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