Tag Archives: 3d

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. My latest animation showreel, featuring Maya and paper animation: Music: “Dial Up” by Kris Oliver http://www.krisoliver.com Paper Animation (Photoshop / ToonBoom): All character, background and colour design by myself. MayaContinue reading “New Portfolio and Showreel”

Rude Awakening

Character (Morpheus) from here: http://www.joshburton.com/projects/morpheus.asp Chair prop provided by Aardman All 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 for a more cartoony style. For reference I watched a lot of Tex Avery takes! However I still struggledContinue reading “Rude Awakening”

Animating a Horse III

Polishing 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 as I know I’ll haveContinue reading “Animating a Horse III”

Animating a Horse II

Breakdowns 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 here. I beganContinue reading “Animating a Horse II”

Animating a Horse

Posing 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 into my reel with some four-leggedContinue reading “Animating a Horse”

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. And now for something a little different … we had some free time at the very end of the course so I triedContinue reading “Update”

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 beautifully. I wanted to show a little of the referencingContinue reading “Walk and Run Assignments”

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 in 3D was very unfamiliar. 3D seems toContinue reading “Weightlift Exercise”

Lunge and Baseball Swing Exercises

Animation by myself, characters provided by Aardman. I’m now about to begin my fourth week on the Aardman course. This video’s made of the assignments I completed over the last two weeks. The lunge is the first character animation I’ve done in Maya. I had lots of helpful comments on how to improve it, andContinue reading “Lunge and Baseball Swing Exercises”