Animation Samples

Whilst animation is not my strongest skill, (having focused on other areas of the CG pipeline during my degree), as a rigger I have worked very closely with the animators throughout and am therefore competent with fundamental animation techniques and principles. (Such as the use of the graph editor, posing, stepped shot breakdowns and integrating the 12 key principles of animation into a shot.) Below are a few examples of shots that I have animated myself:

This first one is of Lonato getting frustrated while fishing with Nahil and accidently throwing his line in the river. The shot is unfinished, as it got cut towards the end of the project, which is a shame because I liked the way it was going.

This is just a quick animation test of my fishing pole rig: it works very nicely, and I'm pleased with the apparent taughtness and elasticity of the rod as it casts a line.

This is the final playblast tester of my camera movements from Cribbin'. It works well enough for the film, but was quite tough for what it was as it was my first attempt at animating cameras and I was attempting to parody the difficult camera work of MTV Cribs.

This was my shot from Bare Bear before it was decided that my scene would not be animated, but instead be a series of stills to accompany a story-book style opening. The shot was essentially just meant to portray Bare Bear looking generally fed up and a bit loneley.

I was dissapointed by the decision to change this scene, as it meant that I didn't get to finish animating again, but on reflection it was definately for the greater good of the project, and the final scene looked good. (Plus I learnt a bit about animating in After Effects as a result.)