Demo Reel update

Just got home from the Renaissance Faire, so I'm going to update my Demo Reel over here before I pass out.

Psyche Dialog Test

I've been working on a dialog test for Psyche over the last few weekends to test out her design.  I'm pretty satisfied with it.  This is the furthest I've taken my animation in a while (where I've made an attempt at cleaning it up).  I also voiced Psyche for this one as I have not been able to find sound clips I like from the actresses who I've mentally cast as Psyche (mainly Amanda Seyfried and Emma Stone). 

I'm trying to figure out how to work my newish Storyboard Pro program so that I can start seriously storyboarding out parts of my script.  I'm also working through the script editing it.  I'm also going to try and get one of my sisters to look it over during their spring break, fresh eyes and all.

See you next time.

Some Cupid animation!

I've been playing with some Cupid animation for the couple of weeks trying to get a feel of how he moves.  I'm still gonna push this one a bit further for my reel I think and then try and get some flight animation done before CTN.  I might try some Psyche animation as well.

"In Waiting" The Finished Film

I finished animating my short film this week, hence no post on Sunday.   I've uploaded it to Youtube and now it is time to share it here.

May I present, "In Waiting."

Updated Demo Reel.

I've just updated my Demo Reel.  It has some new shots from my short film that you haven't seen yet.  I'm only five shots away from completion on that so I'm not going to do an update on my short film until it's finished.

"In Waiting" update

I said last week (just looked and it was my 50th and broke 1000 page views) that I'd try and get an update of my short film up here this week, so here it is!

I still have about 13-14 shots to animate before I'll be finished with the rough animation.  I'll leave it as rough animation for the most part once it's finished.  I might go back in and clean it up later.

I've started saving up for a Cintiq, so once I save up enough we'll see if I have an easier time getting polished work up on here.  I love my current tablet (it's survived almost 10 years of abuse), but drawing on it is so much more difficult than drawing directly on a screen.

Revisiting an old bit of animation

So I got my copy stand fixed up yesterday (we had to replace the connector bit of one of the lamps), and so I've been able to shoot my animation work without having to rearrange my room.  Here's something I shot to test it out.  I'm still trying to get rid of the hot spots from the lights, but it's progress. 
 

I started this shot about a year ago, then put it away to work on my short film.   I thought I had thrown it out, but I just found it in my animation box, so I'm going to work on finishing it up.

Demo Reel Update!

I've got a new updated Demo Reel.  I was hoping to finish one of my shots for it before Sunday, but I only got to finishing and shooting it last night.

11 second club December competition take 1

I decided to try the Eleven Second Club competition this month.  This is my first pass at animating my dialog.  I'm still working out the specifics of the characters (especially for the first guy), but I wanted to get the timing and acting worked out.

Demo Reel November 2012

I'm going to the CTN expo this weekend, so I've updated my demo reel.  I'm also working on updating my flat portfolio.

Edit: fixed some of the cut off shots

Updated In Waiting animatic

I've updated my short film with the new shots I've been working on.

Finished Scene

I've finished this scene (for now at any rate, I may take it further in the future).  I've probably put in another 10 hours or so to get it this far and shoot it at least 6 times in between last weekend's version and this one.

Work in progress scene

A scene I'm working on.  I spent about 12+ hours on it so far...

Progress on Short Film

In progress on version 2 of "In waiting."

July 2012 Demo Reel

I'm applying for a couple jobs/internships this week, so I needed to update my reel with what I've been working on.

There might not be posts for the next couple weeks as I'll be on vacation with my family.  I'll try and have some scheduled posts, but if not then I'll hopefully have some new drawings (I'm bringing watercolors, so I may do some paintings as well) up.

In Waiting Animatic

Here's the animatic to go with the story boards from last week.  Some of the timing on it is still a bit off, but I can use this as a jumping off point.  (I've already extended one scene from 2.5 seconds to 6.5.)

Short Film Storyboards

I've finally finished reboarding my short film.  I'm still working on the animatic, but when that is finished it'll go up here too.  We'll see how long my film has grown in this version.

Work in Progress Scene Part 3 (final for now)

This is the rough final animation for the scene I've been working on. The horse is finished (I took the finished frame from another scene), but the prince has to be cleaned up, inked and painted.  That will be coming much later as I want to move on to some other scenes.

Updated Demo Reel

Work in progress scene part 2

So, I've now got all the in-betweens roughed in.  The next step is to start tightening up the drawings and fixing any issues that I notice in the animation.