animatic one

Here's my blocked animatic for my animated short, north&south. It should give you a good idea of the story, camera shots, and pacing. I cut out about 3 or 4 shots from the end, so you'll have to wait to see what happens!

Will post some fully animated shots as soon I get them done.

expressions

Today I've got a facial expression sheet for my character. Drew and colored the first one, then copied it a few times and repainted the eyes/mouth for different expressions. This has helped me create the blendshapes for the face in Maya. Should be able to get a good range of expression by mixing these.

Also, here's a quick screenshot of shot5 from my animatic.

One month left! eeeeeeeeeeee

walking bacon

Today I've got a walk cycle test to break in the character rig and get used to how he works.

My character was rigged by Zeb Wood. Really helped to keep me working on other parts of the project, and the rig is working great! Here is what the rig looks like.

Will post parts of the animatic soon, don't want to give away too much though!

north & south (2)

Today I give you two more test renders. This first one is a render test when I was trying to get clouds that would render fast but still look good. Ended up going using a sky spherical mapped to the haze slot of the sky, and tweaking that. This should allow me to even have the clouds moving!

In this next one, lil bac is going exxxxtreme.

More to come!

north & south

Been working on an animated short for my capstone. I have a lot of progress and test renders to post. I'll be trying to post a few sneak peeks every few days until it is finished at the end of April.

Today I give you two test renders.

More updates to come!

mad nerds

Had to recreate a tv show intro, so decided to do Mad Men. Worked with Charles YUUUUU on this one. All done in After Effects and a little Illustrator.

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