This is a walk cycle WIP from a short scene I'm animating. It's the first time I've animated with the Mery rig (available from meryproject.com) and it's been a lot of fun to use.
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New Portfolio and Showreel
I thought it was time for an update of my portfolio and showreel! Here's a peek: click on the image to view the full portfolio. [NOTE: this portfolio link no longer exists.]My latest animation showreel, featuring Maya and paper animation:Music: "Dial Up" by Kris...
Rude Awakening
Character (Morpheus) from here: http://www.joshburton.com/projects/morpheus.aspChair prop provided by AardmanAll sound effects from http://www.freesfx.co.uk This is a short animation I created while a Trainee Animator at Aardman. I wanted to push my animation and go...
Animating a Horse III
Previous posts: Posing and Breakdowns. This is actually the hardest stage to describe, I think; there are so many small things that I do it's hard to summarise them. But I'll give it a shot! I normally don't use the graph editor all that much before the polishing pass...
Animating a Horse II
Find parts I and III here: Posing and Polishing. What with Christmas, applying for jobs, and so on, it's taken me longer than I hoped to do some more work with my horse animation. Today I've had the chance to do so! To find my first post about this animation, click...
Animating a Horse
Find Parts II and III here: Breakdowns and Polishing. One thing I'm determined to do is to keep animating in 2D and 3D. There are lots of free 3D rigs available online, so I downloaded Tomasz Jurczyk and Carlos Contreras' horse rig from here. I want to add variety...
Update
I've now finished the Aardman / NFTS Character Animation course ... twelve weeks over already! You can find my updated showreel (with lots of animation from the course) here and my new portfolio here. [NOTE: these pages no longer exist.] And now for something a little...
Walk and Run Assignments
Character provided by Aardman, animation by myself. The last few weeks have taught me a lot. There have been a few difficult days when I've really doubted my ability: "I'll never be an animator!" Somehow those dark moments were followed by days where everything worked...
Weightlift Exercise
Animation by myself, character and prop provided by Aardman. I found Week Four's exercise challenging not only because I lost a day through illness but because the nature of the exercise meant lots of slow, steady animation (which I find hard enough to do in 2D) which...