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