Anyone who knows me knows that I love the Muppets. Most of my animation friends knew they wanted to be animators when they saw a particular Disney or Pixar movie when they were little. For me it was Muppets.
So much character, so much performance, in just a little foam banana peel.
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Saturday, September 12, 2009
4Mations Contest Runner Up
A month or so ago I submitted my short film "Furnick" to a online competition at www.4mations.tv. I just got back from my time off to discover that I was a runner up in said competition. Woo!
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Starfish Ninja is coming
Just want to get the word out to the small handful of you who read my blog. My good friend Joe Daniels has been working on a trailer for a personal project called Starfish Ninja. He started this project a couple years ago and has been working on it in what little spare time he has had.I've been giving him a hand with some of the rigs in my free time and I can't wait to see the progress he makes. Keep an eye on that blog for more news on the project.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Anmation!
About a year ago I was working on a different kind of face rig based off of these tutorials. With this set up using nurbs curves to deform the mesh, I created this animation to an audio clip from "What About Bob?"
The model was done by Josh Piejko. So about a year later The Face Machine is released which is an face auto rigging tool that was developed by my good friend Jed Mitchell. This rig uses very similar concepts as my nurbs curve face rig, but it takes it several steps further in the way it deforms the face. The automation is easy as pie too. It takes me about 10-20 minutes to rig a character's face using this tool. So what I decided to do was to revamp this monkey model and rig it using the Face and Setup Machine and try to polish the animation as best as I could. Here is what I ended up with.
if you can't see the videos you can check them out at http://www.mytoons.com/evadceivorus
The model was done by Josh Piejko. So about a year later The Face Machine is released which is an face auto rigging tool that was developed by my good friend Jed Mitchell. This rig uses very similar concepts as my nurbs curve face rig, but it takes it several steps further in the way it deforms the face. The automation is easy as pie too. It takes me about 10-20 minutes to rig a character's face using this tool. So what I decided to do was to revamp this monkey model and rig it using the Face and Setup Machine and try to polish the animation as best as I could. Here is what I ended up with.
if you can't see the videos you can check them out at http://www.mytoons.com/evadceivorus
Friday, April 04, 2008
Whirled!
Hey you! Looking at this now! Brittney and Bill have been working hard on this new website/game/viritual world and i think you should check it out at www.whirled.com
What's that? You're too lazy to go there? Well lucky for you I've embedded my room in this blog post. You show up as a little ghost named "Guest####". Walk around, chat with some people, play some games, then sign up for an account. It's all free!
What's that? You're too lazy to go there? Well lucky for you I've embedded my room in this blog post. You show up as a little ghost named "Guest####". Walk around, chat with some people, play some games, then sign up for an account. It's all free!
Thursday, March 06, 2008
MyToons Finalist!!
**UPDATE**
Sorry for the delay, but if you haven't heard yet, Furnick won!!! Big thanks to the judges, to mytoons, and the loads of people who have watched Furnick and left me all the nice comments. On mytoons.com it has recieved over 2000 views so far! Woo!
www.mytoons.com has a contest to make a short animated bumper with their logo. Well I entered Furnick and found out today that I am a finalist! Out of the ten finalists only three of them win the prize. I believe there might also be a grand prize, but don't quote me on that. Check it out, check out the other good finalists and cross your fingers
Sorry for the delay, but if you haven't heard yet, Furnick won!!! Big thanks to the judges, to mytoons, and the loads of people who have watched Furnick and left me all the nice comments. On mytoons.com it has recieved over 2000 views so far! Woo!
www.mytoons.com has a contest to make a short animated bumper with their logo. Well I entered Furnick and found out today that I am a finalist! Out of the ten finalists only three of them win the prize. I believe there might also be a grand prize, but don't quote me on that. Check it out, check out the other good finalists and cross your fingers
Monday, February 18, 2008
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Animation!
Blocking out the timing and poses. It feels good to be animating something that is more....me. My last clip I animated was too forced. I forced the characters into a situation and the animation came out flat. This, although it may not be profound is much more natural to me. I'll post more work in progress as it comes.
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