Final Project - Winter semester

Below is a link to my final project for Intro to Animation. I wanted the frog to catch a fish at the end but ran out of time since I had a truck load of problems getting the rig to work with the facial animation. Don't mind the lighting and texturing.

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2010 Visual FX and Motion Graphics Demo Reel

My Demo reel up to the end of last year:

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Animation project #3

This was a blendshape assignment. Basically, I created this same face with several different expressions and then animated between each shape to make it look like he's talking. He's a little animatronic but I learned a lot quick.

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Animation project #2

My next assignment involved dynamics. I decided to use Mario as a poor victim of his never ending nemesis: Bowser.

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Animation Project #1

Here is my first animation project for Intro to animation. Our assignment was to model a Lego man and then animate him using only the basic translate, rotate, and scale controllers without any rigging. I didn't spend any time on the texturing or lighting so you'll have to forgive me.

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Graphic Design and Illustration examples < 2010

Neal

 

I told my buddy Neal that I was going to do a caricature of him and so he sent me a picture of himself with a beard. Luckily I found a picture of him when our family went up to visit him in Idaho Falls. He was actually pulling this face in the photo and so it wasn't hard to distort him (not that he has huge cheeks, massive ears and a small nogen in real life...) Anyways, the scanner made this really pixely but I had to get it up tonight in case Neal didn't believe I was going to do it.

Neal with his wife Heather.

Dubbaya

You gotta love old George Dubbaya Bush. I've researched a lot of artist's and it seems like they have always come up with their own version of him. This is just a sketch to see if I could push his features a bit. I had a hard time with the values (like normal) but that's what these tests are for! I struggle using anything other than a #2 pencil. I used a HB, 2B, and 4B sketching pencil on this and felt like I was drawing with my tongue... which might not be a bad idea since I can roll it both directions. Anyways, I'll probably take another shot at this here shortly.

Merciless Morgan lives!

And me thoughts me saw him dead with me own eye.

To explain, my family and I did a Murder Mystery the day after Thanksgiving and my brother Eric, Merciless Morgan, was the unfortunate soul to be murdered. We took a photo of him which ended up being a perfect subject for my first ever completed digital painting - Wahoo! I still don't know what I'm doing but it was a fun process. I tried to give it a caricature type of look and so I distorted his face and proportions quite a bit. I've included some of the steps of the process below. The first sketch I did was with a normal paintbrush which ended up leaving no variation in line but since I was painting over it, it didn't matter. I have recently found some brushes that simulate a very realistic pencil so I'll be using those in the future. Anyways, I hope those that attended get a kick out of it.

Clark, you surprised?

Clark:

"Surprised?  Eddie, if I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I couldn't be more surprised than I am right now.

More sketches

A little caricature of Ghandi.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas Gandhi 

A pen and pencil mixture.

The odd couple

This is a drawing from my work meeting this morning. We were talking about a lady that use to work here who was shaped like a football player. Her husband came in a few times and my drawing pretty much depicts the contrast between the two of them. No offense to those with very large trapezius'.

Here's a pencil sketch from last night. I tried my hardest not to ever use the tip of my pencil to avoid hard lines. I just used a #2 pencil. This is another WWII soldier I found online. I am going to try a few pencils suggested me by another artist. He uses Staedtler pencils and likes to draw on velum. I'll give it a shot.

Pen and Marker

I've been sketching a lot with a pen and marker because they're a lot easier to carry around and I don't have to sharpen them. Plus, you can't erase and I figure it might help me be a little more cautious when making marks. The above drawing I copied from an artist named Ashley Wood. He worked on most of the art for the Metal Gear Solid series which I am probably the biggest fan in the world of. This drawing inspired me to look up WWII imagery to use as subject matter as you can see from the sketches below.

The guy on the bottom right of the image above looked like one mean brother. He was toting around what looked like a missile launcher. Either that it or it just launched apples... whatever it was, I wouldn't want it pointed in my direction. I've always been fascinated with WWII since I was kid. I think I am going to attempt a painting here in the near future.

Pen and pencil sketches

Here's the little dude from the Spiderwick Chronicles. Haven't seen it, he was just on the front of the book cover and it was within 3 feet of my drawing space. Therefore, he was a good candidate to draw.

A few pen sketches. The lower left is my brother but with a Frankenstein forehead - A quick sketch while he was painting. I attempted to paint the other day with my two brothers and it was like taking the frustration of drawing and multiplying it by 100. Pretty addictive though - I'm on the bandwagon. The others are from the old movie, Where the Red Fern Grows.

More quick pen sketches.

Tuesday Meeting Pen sketch

I'm no caricature artist but here is one I attempted of my supervisor Tim Nelson. He doesn't look much like this but fun anyways. I'm excited because my Mom is planning on getting me a book on caricatures by a guy named Jason Seiler for Christmas. He does the funniest caricatures I have ever seen. Take a look at his stuff here: http://jasonseilerillustration.blogspot.com.