Here is my final assignment for my character one class. I am very happy with the end result, in particular the ending. I really enjoyed the class and felt like I was able to pick up on 3D animation rather quickly. I cannot thank my professor, Scott Wright, enough as well as friends who helped and supported along the way. I am defiantly not "afraid" of 3D animation anymore and thinking about taking character two with the same professor. Until then, I'm going to enjoy a much needed week off break until fall quarter starts up!

Here's a screen cap from my final assignment in my character one class. I wanted to show this mainly because of how much I had to break the character's rig to achieve the desired effect. The small box is my camera, or what you see in camera view, and the rest is the MAYA perspective space. You can see how his arms and head are completely detached and how stretched out his body is. I also added a smear in the head, hence the shape. 

This is why I love animation. For little things like this. As an animator, I live for moments like these and whenever I can incorporate them into my work, I then realize that this truly isn't work but playtime!

In other news my blog has reached over 2,000 page views! I can't thank all those who check out my blog enough for all of your support and interest. I truly appreciate it. This post is for YOU!

Here's the video I mentioned in a previous post. For whatever reason the video from the original post isn't working. Hope it does this time.

Another picture of Ben. As you can see he looks like he's made himself comfy. i must say he's a cute little thing!

In non-animation related news....

I came home from work the other night and found this little guy abandoned on my street corner. He was left with two food dishes, a box of food, and a crate. It was night when I found him and he stunk of his own filth. I went up to him and surprisingly he was super friendly. He even jumped in my lap and gave me a few kisses. 

I got my roommate Colin to help me wrangle him up and took him inside and gave him a bath or two. I later then drove to a gas station and picked up a toy, some dry food, and kitty litter. The next day I brought him to Pet Smart, got him checked out, got him some shots and cleaned out his ears. Needless to say I now own a 4 month old kitten! I named him Ben.

I can't believe someone would just leave an unwanted animal/pet on the side of the road like that. I had always heard instances where this happened and it always disgusted me. Its funny because I never thought I would be one of those people to discover an abandoned animal, and although I don't necessary believe in fate, I feel like this was meant to be.

Above is video reference for my final assignment in my character one class. The assignment had to include a character wanting something but can't having it. I was also given the phrase "drilling for oil" to be somehow  included in the assignment. My buddies Sean and Kintan went to work shooting reference and Sean came up with the idea you see above. It was of a tin man who reaches for an oil can but he leg is too stiff to move resulting in pure hilarity. Or so I hope...

The first part where I'm shaking my leg has been removed and I'll be starting around the 5 second marker. So far its coming along slowly buy surely. This quarter has been such a positive learning experience and I can't wait for the Fall to begin.

Here's the video reference I did for the below video. I think I missed my calling. Should've been a dancer....

Hello, hello! Its been quite a while since I've uploaded/posted anything here lately. To be honest I have some work, but I just don't think its all that good and want to show off my better, or what I feel is better, work to you all! Its also summer quarter here at SCAD and Savannah GA during summer, its hot, humid and un-motivational.Plus there's the beach. In any event, here's my fifth assignment for my 3D Character 1 class. One more to go before the quarter ends!!

In this particular assignment we had to focus on "contrast" in our character animation. To be specific, if a character is all scrunched together then he should be pulling out of that and be very spread open later on. Kind of  like an opposite. It can also be done with emotion, like from joy to grief or anger. In my case above, I wanted the character to be hunched over and stealthy. Its only when his cell phone goes off that he open up wide, (the contrast), and frantically dives for his phone. There are, as always, a few technical issues in this, but I feel as though the character animation overall is pretty successful. I had fun animating this and shooting reference too. Maybe I'll post the reference video for a laugh at my expense :) Anyway enjoy and thanks for checking it out!