Rendering Tests and New Reel

Hello again, I changed the order and finessed some animation on my demo reel, here is newest update.  DemoReel

Down below are two rendering tests, The top one is a SSS shader by ninja animator Brad Kinley.  The other is some modifications to the regular bishop shader.  I really like the SSS shader!!

Check out Brads awesome blog and short Bandito here :BradKinleyAnimation

Business Cards

I also designed some business cards.   

Riot Games Test animation

Hello, Its been a while and I've got an excuse. 

          A few weeks back I got an email from a recruiter from Riot Games asking me to do two animation tests. One was a walk cycle, and the other was a 3-5 second attack where my character had to jump in the air and perform a landing attack. They gave me 2 weeks to finish it but only 20 hours to actually animate. Also, because it is game animation I had to animate from all sides and also at 30 frames per second. 2 things I have never done before.

       Things I learned is that animating from all sides(not just the primary camera)is well worth it.   I will never take any short cuts again. and 30 frames per second is no big deal either because I spend a lot of my time in the graph editor.

 Here is a link to the walk cycle. 
 Walk Test
 Here is the link to the attack.
Attack

I hope you enjoy the test.  On to other matters, like packing for the AM graduation!!

11secondclub Part_3

Here is some more progress..I need to animate the eyes in both shots and continue polishing.

11secondClub Part2

Here we have the first shot about 80 percent there..

11second June (Lip Sync)

I am trying a new workflow my mentor Sean Sexton showed me. One of the cool things is that you get the "hard part" of all the mechanics of the lip sync before I start blocking out the poses. Now later on in the workflow I can really work and sculpt the mouth shapes but still have the working mechanics. No more fighting for the appealing shapes while getting correct mouth shapes.

Old AM work

Here is my first lip syc assignment I ever did.  Audio is from The School of Rock.  I did some polishing and rendered it out in a simple manner.  Im not sure if I will use it on my demo reel.. Click Here to View