Animation Effects and Motionbuilder exercise

Hi Everybody!
This week I have been working on tests for the crack and crumble animation effects for the E4 sting. I learned how to make these effects by using youtube tutorials.















This week we also had a class exorcise on how to use Autodesk Motionbuilder. It's bit more awkward to use than Maya but now I am able to edit and combine motion capture data.

Proxy Rig creation

This week I worked on creating the character's Proxy rig. I used techniques I learned last year and using Tina O'Hailey's book "Rig it Right". I will use this proxy rig when making the Pre viz.

Pipeline Animatic

Hi there,
So this week I focused on the developing of the E4 sting story by making storyboards and animatics. The camera is a bit too flat in these plans so I will experiment with different camera angles when I make Pre vizs.

3rd year begins

Hi there!
So 3rd year has begun and so has our first project. This Pipeline is where a group of us work on creating a 10 second short in 7 weeks. I am working in a team of three people and we decided to create an E4 sting as they are quite eclectic and random. We also could submit our sting the next time E4 host a sting competition. for this project I will be directing, rigging and animating. Julia will be designing and modeling the environment and Ben is designing and modeling the character the following links are initial rough animatics for our sting idea.

End of Second Year

Well another year of university is over. For my final major project this year I was able to collaborate with two awesome 3rd years on their final films, "Pursuit" by Claudia Staelans and "Curious and Poe" by Grace Culverwell. I also did a Personal Dual Dialogue piece. Sadly I got ill Durring production for a few weeks and was not able to do much work durring that time, leaving a lot of my animations to the last minute and not being to the standard I hoped they would be. But I am quite pleased with how my curious the dragon animations and human body mechanics from Pursuit turned out. So below are my final animations in separate videos and in my second year showreel:

FMX

Well FMX was an amazing experience! There were so many interesting talks and people. Some of the high lights for me were going to the great Ed Hooks "Acting for Animators" workshops and meeting the reps from various studios at their recruitment stands. I was able to get great advice on how to develop my showreel from the recruiters from; Disney, Illumination, MPC, Frame Store and Double Negative. Would definitely want to go again if I had the chance.

Preparation for FMX

So tomorrow I am off to Stuttgart, Germany to attend the FMX festival for the week! Very excited! I also but together a showreel of my best finished work so I can hopefully get critiques from industry personnel while I'm there. You can see the showreel below:

I would have liked include some of the work I'm currently working on but it is unfinished and also, most of it is part of 3rd year films which will be premiered at the end of May, so I shouldn't spoil it.

I have made so business cards to take with just in case. You can see both sides below:

Not sure why the front looks like that on here but o well. I also misspelled "Channel" which is annoying as I sent them off to print without realizing, but I'm gonna need to make new ones next year on my coarse anyway so I can put up with them till then.
Right I better start packing my clothes now :P