Demo Reel 2015

Arrow Shot

Splash Test

Walk Cycle

My latest walk cycle animation, this time with character!

You know whats better than doing animation?

Answer:  DOING IT AGAIN!!!  Your art never stops improving.  It can always get better.  You always have to push yourself to look at your work, critique it, figure out how you can make it better.  Even though I was extremely happy with my last post and I thought it was perfect, once I looked at it again later on with a fresh, critical eye, I saw lots of room for improvement.  The main lesson I learned from this revision/addition is stretch/squash and exaggeration.  I always thought that in realistic animation, it was stretching the character out into his/her most extreme position while still being able to keep the proportions.  But then we go back to the bouncing ball animations, where we distort the ball and literally stretch it across the page, and then squash it down.  That rule doesnt just apply for soft, rubbery, stretchy balls.  You can use that kind of exaggeration for ANYTHING.  It will give your animation so much more weight if you really push it.

I HAVE RETURNED

After seemingly disappearing from the art community completely, I have come back after all this time to bestow the internet with the new thing I made that I felt was actually worth posting.  It's been really hard to motivate myself to do anything  after finishing school except for a few doodles here and there.  It helps to be around other artists, which are not in abundance around me.  This very short clip is the start of a brand new action sequence I am working on, similar to the sequence I did with the frog character.  This is the result of an all night flash binge session.  Good thing I'm actually nocturnal or I would have given up on this long ago, and daytime is too distracting.  So enjoy this 2 second clip that took me HOURS AND HOURS to make.  But I guess that's animation.

Weight Test

This is the newest addition to my demo reel, a weight test.  This is my favorite piece of animation I've ever done.  This took days and days of studying, drawing and redrawing until I got the posing just perfect.

Final Student Animation Project

This was my final project for my animation class, and I have been working on it since January.  Four months of hard work and lots and lots of drawing challenges went into this.  I am quite proud of the result, albeit only being rough animation, and I learned so much from doing it.  I really set out to challenge myself with this, by using more realistic characters and good action scenes.  I hope I can always challenge myself so I can keep learning.

Animation Demo Reel

Animatic Story time!!

This is sort of a trailer for a larger project I want to work on in the future.  The beginning of the story is that there is a city with a strong farming district, and during a drought in a distant city, these starved people show up and ask for help and food.  The guards that came over with them are pretty much assholes to these people.  They beat people up and take too much food.  So our main character gets pissed off and gets a buddy of his to steal some food from them, and that night his thief buddy finds a whole lot of other thief buddies and starts attacking the town and people that moved in.  Our hero then finds himself in this big old courtyard place after he ran away from the attack, and he is now mulling it over and thinking about all the horrible shit that he pretty much caused himself.  That's where we begin, I guess.