Forced Smile

Here's an illustration from a drawing I did a few months ago.

As usual progress can be seen here.

-Campy

Gandalf Master Larceny & New Blog

Every time I heard this track, this came to mind, so I had some fun and animated it in flash.

Go check out The Rooftops Mixtape from Wrekonize! It's a fantastic finale to the waiting room series. http://wrekonize.bandcamp.com/album/the-rooftops-mixtape

I also have been posting to another blog integrated into my main website www.waytoocampy.com, which means I've been slacking on this one. You can just subscribe straight to the feed here http://www.waytoocampy.com/1/feed, but I have also set up a system to repost anything from that feed onto Blogger, whether it will work remains to be seen, but finger crossed!

-Campy

Cornfiscated

For the past two semester's my senior film tesm has been working on an opener for the Seattle Children's Film Festival. And we finished!

 

I worked as a Technical Artist, Animator, and Post Production Artist. I cannot begin to tell you how much I learned during this process and I can't wait to start working on something new! Thanks to all my team members for working so hard to see this come to life!
You can check out our progress at our blog:
http://mothpictures.blogspot.com/

-Campy
©Digipen 2012

Let's talk about 2D

So, last semester I began to yearn for 2D animation, I feel more comfortable with how I draw things than I did 2 years ago (The last time I touched 2D). This semester I got the chance to try out some 2D in a class at school. After messing with several different programs and styles, I settled on just rough drawings in Flash. I would have liked to spend more time on it, but it's gotten me back into the mindset of using Flash, and I'm looking forward to doing more! As far as story goes, I love owl (they're adorable), and I don't think there is a person alive who has not been caught pretending to rock out to their favorite music, thus NocturnaRock.

Also thanks to my dad for lending me his best of The Who CD when I was a kid, 16 years later and I still haven't returned it.

-Campy
©Digipen 2012

Look Around the Corner

A few weeks ago some folks from Microsoft were kind enough to come in to school and give some portfolio reviews. One of the main things the gentleman I spoke to told me was to take time (For a few months after school), to do more work, and to polish the work I had, he said it was clear, but could be cleaned up. The intention was that these folks would come back 2 other times before we graduate and see how we took the critique they gave. After mulling over some of the stuff I was told I came to the conclusion that if I'm billing myself as a Cinematic Animator, I need more cinematic work in my reel. Hopefully if I do as much as I can (2D and 3D), combined with the animation from my senior project, I'll have a reel I think more suits the title of Cinematic Animator. Thus I present the first in this endeavour, Tiny lurking around the corner. I've always wanted to do something with Tiny, but the last project I tried with him pan out, so I'm glad I finally got to do something presentable with him.

And for good measure, I put together the "Stages" the animation went through, from blocking to rendering.

I'll keep posting stuff as I do it, look out for some stuff from my senior project, and some 2D animation soon!

-Campy

Slave Kinetic Typography

About every 6 months or so I jump headfirst back into the world with the unfortunate moniker of Motion Graphics (I couldn't call it anything more vague if I tried.) This time it was Kinetic Typography. I head the single Slave by Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, and Kutt Calhoun and started thinking about it, a week later the album came out and I went into a fury (now committed to actually doing the whole song), and a week after that I'm done!

Here is the UNCENSORED version:

and the CENSORED version:

The album as a whole is fantastic, you can get it here:

http://www.strangemusicinc.net/

-Campy

Papagena!

Thomas and I animated a short bit from The Magic Flute!

-Campy

HÖBO tugs at your heart strings

I finally took some time out to mess around with the HÖBO Rig, I found a few weeks ago. It's an insane amount of fun! (Please note HÖBO was in no way harmed in this bit, he's just that good an actor.)

-Campy
(Hooray 50 posts!)

Here is one more, for good measure

-Campy

Ollie Rig V3.8

About a month of learning the ins and outs of building a rig, and building a rig to meet the specs of how other people animate, I'm almost done with the OIlie Rig, and I'm finally able to start animating him! This is a demo I recorded to present for our senior project midterm milestone (He also has a jaw control, but I didn't include it in this demo) 

And here is an animation I presented

You can see progress of the whole project at our teams blog http://mothpictures.blogspot.com/
-Campy

Rigs & Test Animations

I've been working on learning how to rig cleanly, I need to be able to make rigs that other people can pick up and use. The first one is a facial rig for one of the characters in the senior project I'm working on, the second one is a 4 legged rig for the second character (an alien).

-Campy

Krag Running

So, after 4 days I decided my week of mimes wasn't doing what I hoped it would, it did however confirm my suspicion that vidref is a dangerous road for me and I tend to follow it WAY to closely. I might go back to it later, but for now, here's a dinosaur:

-Campy

Hacky Sack and Koko

For an Animation Portfolio class this semester I was tasked with, a physical action and a quadruped walk cycle.

I went with Hacky Sack trick called "Drifter"

And used the Koko Rig for the quadruped walk cycle

-Campy

©Digipen 2011

Free Helium [Remastered]

I got the time to make some changes to my second Junior Project, fixed up the colors, a little bit of the animation, and the rendering/compositing process.

-Campy

Some "Things"

Last semester I needed a break, that break coincided with George Michael's "Careless Whisper" getting stuck in my head for about 2 weeks. So this happened.

This semester we had a lecture on how to breakdown a whip action and were encouraged to try it with a spine. I took it a little too far.

This is what happens when I'm left to my own devices.

-Campy

Look at me pout

Every time I see this little pout it makes me laugh,

so I put it up on one monitor, opened Maya in the other and just copied the poses onto norman.

-Campy

Backflip Sketch

Another sketch with the robot legs rig. Straight ahead, done during a break between classes.

-Campy

Straight ahead sketches

Over the break and the first few days of the semester I got a chance to do some straight ahead animation. Messing around with rigs, and trying different stuff out. I Don't know what to call them besides "Sketches"

A normal walk cycle, just wanted to focus on the legs & timing.

Same poses as the last one, just changed up the timing to have faster passing poses.

Same poses again, but this time fast contact to down poses.

I found this rig and fell in love with it, I'm definitely going to keep working with him, think I'm gonna give him a mouth when I get the chance.

-Campy

Simple Bot Free Legs rig

Johnny the Box rig

Guster

Guster tries to get his grandson to use the toilet.

-Campy

©Digipen 2010

Free Helium

My second semester junior project, I plan to go back in and make some changes this summer, but here's where it's at now.

I had to shrink it down a ton to fit on the blogger page, it can be seen in 720HD on youtube.

I had a lot of fun with this one, can't wait to make the fixes and bring it to the next level.

-Campy

©Digipen 2010

The Voxel Zombie

So, last weekend I had the wonderfull fortune to see a lecture by Bay Raitt. He brought up Voxel Sculpting, and showed some of the work that he had done in a program called 3DCoat. I've never been a huge fan of sculpting, if it doesn't move, I don't have a ton of interest in it, but I was curious about working with voxels and when he said the program had an "Automatic Topology" tool, I got even more curious. SO at the beginnning of the week I downloaded the trail version of 3Dcoat and started modeling a Zombie from a picture that My friend Kyla Oyamot had drawn last year.Here is the finished rough sculpt (First time I've ever sculpted anything in 3D, so bear with me)

Then I took a shot at the Auto

matic Re-topology

I think I did something to mess up the Automatic Unwrap

Then I tried painting it

Here is the "Finished product"

It also has a rendering tool in it

All in all it was actually a lot of fun, I'm liking the prospect of Voxel modeling, and Maybe in the next year or two it will get integrated into a 3D Package like Maya or XSI or 3DSMax!

Big Thanks to Kyla Oyamot for letting me use her awesome zombie dude!

Check out her blog!

http://thethickblackline.tumblr.com/

-Campy

Zombie Character © Kyla Oyamot