Here is a video I did to illustrate my animating and rigging skills for a potential client. The character and scenery are modeled by RobCG, the rigging, animation and camera are all me. In particular, this was a test of some new facial muscle rigging techniques. I was quite pleased with how this turned out, even though the model was not really designed for expressiveness, this face rig, copied from another character, got the job done in a 24 hour build.
Here is an animated gif of a robot/mech:
Here I have for you some videos that I created during my college courses.
This first video is basically my final exam for the Psychology of Play class. As an entertainment college, we were ordered to use slideshows or video files to give the report. Since I had some 3D experience before enrolling, I decided to knock this out of the park. I did underestimate the amount of time I needed to do a good job, so since I wasn't graded on animation quality (because we hadn't technically learned to animate yet) I decided to focus on information delivery to get the A grade. A testament to what a man can do with 48 hours and some funk.
This first video is basically my final exam for the Psychology of Play class. As an entertainment college, we were ordered to use slideshows or video files to give the report. Since I had some 3D experience before enrolling, I decided to knock this out of the park. I did underestimate the amount of time I needed to do a good job, so since I wasn't graded on animation quality (because we hadn't technically learned to animate yet) I decided to focus on information delivery to get the A grade. A testament to what a man can do with 48 hours and some funk.
Same story for this next video, it was my final exam for Compositing. I was also working on a 3D character on the side, so I decided to give her a test drive with this video, but again, this class predates the animation courses, so we were not expected to be able to do even that, and we were not graded on animation quality.
For this class, we were given a movie quote and a character and a bucket of props and told to animate a scene out of this. So completely the opposite of the other videos, I was only graded on the animation quality. We did several assignments like this, but this one I felt especially proud of.
This was an exercise to work on Rhythm, one of the 12 Principles of Animation. We were given a selection of music files and told to animate a little music video using primitive shapes. I didn't like any of the songs that they provided, so I used one that I wrote, and I decided to spice up the primitives by adding picture textures of some of the characters I had designed and do some storytelling with it.
After it was finally over, I made a topic on one of my internet forums to announce and celebrate my graduation. One of the other forum goers responded with "Great. Now make me a sandwich." Oh, I'll make you a sandwich alright. A terrifying sandwich that will drive men mad at the mere sight of it. Behold! The Horror of the Living Sandwich! (I modeled and animated the sandwich, but not the kitchen scene)