Animation Demo Reel 2012

Breakdown
1.Sillhouette- Responsible for Animation, Character by Ringling
2.Warrior PushPull- Responsible for Everything. TSM Rigged
3.Emotions Test- Responsible for Everything. TSM Rigged
4.LipSynch- Responsible for Everything. TSM Rigged
5.Waiting in Airplane- Responsible for Animation and set. Character by Ringling

Lighting Demo Reel 2012

1.Gravestones (Maya, Renderman for Maya, Nuke, Photoshop, Premiere) Responsible for: Everything Except Modeling
Additional Notes: Set provided by Ringling College.
2.Battlefield (Maya, Renderman for Maya, Nuke, Photoshop, Premiere) Responsible for: Everything
3.Kitchen (Maya, Renderman for Maya, Nuke,Photoshop, Premiere) Responsible for: Everything except Models.
Additional Notes: Set provided by Jeremy Birn.
4.Plane Ride (Maya, Renderman for Maya, Nuke,Photoshop, Premiere) Responsible for: Everything. Character by Ringling
5.Creepy Kid (Maya, Renderman for Maya, Nuke,Photoshop, Premiere) Responsible for:Everything except Character
Additional Notes: Character provided by Ringling College.
6.Self Caricature (Maya, Renderman for Maya, Mentalray, Nuke,Photoshop, Premiere) Responsible for : Everything
7.Color Pitch Storyboards (Photoshop) Responsible for: Digital Painting in Photoshop
Additional Notes: Line work/Layout by George Haney.
8.Color Keys (Photoshop) Responsible for: Digital Painting in Photoshop
Additional Notes: Line work/Layout by George Haney.
 9.Forest Digital Painting (Photoshop) Responsible for: Digital Painting in Photoshop
 10.Photography (Photoshop) Responsible for: Photographing, Post processing

Spring Break Junior Year

Time is flying by and the year is almost over. Im exhausted. Here's a WIP render from Pushpull...Over the break i decided to rework the textures/lighting/comp. I felt like I learned a lot.

JuniorYear Semester 2: PrePro!!!

It was a great Christmas break! I guess I lied about posting more work. Over the break I worked on many projects and fixing older projects for the demo-reel/portfolio and modeled stuff for this semester's projects. I felt that break was over too fast. But on the brightside, this semester I'm part of a 3 man team for Preproduction for Senior Thesis!

So far its been a blast! I remembered my boss at the studio where I interned this past summer was really into group projects. Its one thing making your own thesis, but when you add more people, it really teaches you about communication, direction, optimization, management, teamwork, plussing work, etc.

I'm hopeful for a fun exciting semester and maybe one day I'll post more work. It gets harder b/c all the work we are doing now is for our senior film... and why spoil the film by posting it?

PushPull Natural is Done-ish!

Push Pull Natural was submitted yesterday. Overall its about 90% done. I'm still pushing the texturing on the props/character... But I'll post it up by the end of the semester.

For now, here is a screen shot of the heroine.

DFA B/w Enviroment Painting

Thoughts on Junior Year...

As a freshman, you hear incredible stories from upperclassmen about how hard the Computer Animation Curriculum is. People say you'll have no life and its hard work. Well its actually a bit worse than it sounds. The pressure is on for the rest of the semester. People are getting around 2-3 hours of sleep consecutively during this time of the month. There isn't enough hours in the day to get everything done to your personal best level. I guess its necessary to experience the industry " crunch time" but... it really hurts as an artist to have to create mediocre work just to get those points to pass the curriculum. I guess one has to be a little more than human to tough it out in the industry. There are amazing people that do it...but for the average human its hard to adapt to. I've heard from upperclassmen that during second semester PrePro for thesis, we will suffer much psychological damage. From observing my senior friends last year, I don't doubt it at all.

Lipsych Character!

Oh Hai!