Animation Team Production, pt.1

So, I know I've been a little MIA lately, but for a good reason.  I have been working on a "top secret" project with my team production class this semester.  The class does an animation project for a non-profit group to help in any way that they can.  Our client for this semester was Child's Play (http://childsplaycharity.org/), the non-profit organization for Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com/).  If you are into gaming or comics at all, you know how amazing this experience is and how excited I got when we found out.

Here is the first installation of a blog that is happening for the Team Production class to outline the process ... Enjoy!

http://neiasiggraph.org/atp/

Adv. 2D Final

This sound clip is from the movie O Brother Where art Thou ... teacher's pick.  Enjoy!!

Shoot!

Special effects in Flash CS5. First attempt at a ray gun, now to animate using these fun tricks!

11 Second Club

This assignment was to take the monthly clip from 11secondclub.com (June 2011).  We were to make up our own interpretation of the clip ... Enjoy!

So, I did a storyboard a while ago and i'm finally getting around to posting some simple character designs.  Everything is better with a robot, right??

Dogtoon Media

Worked with my pal Doug Cowell at Dogtoon Media to get a little animated ... I animated his static logo, Cheers!

- Original cartoon work done by Doug Cowell

Storyboard Final

One down, one to go ... enjoy!

Shadows will get you ...

This is the beginning concept to an animation i'm going to be working on.  More will be posted as it comes.

Photoshop

Flash        

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TONY!!!

This is another animatic (animated storyboard) for a movie clip from The Shining found on http://www.moviewavs.com/.  Tried to find a little humor ...

Egg Salad Sandwich

I think this audio clip is from "The 40 year old Virgin," found on www.moviewavs.com. Who know egg salad sandwiches could be so interesting or would make you want to jump from a building?

Robots

lost his eye ... lost his hand ... tragic. Work in progress - characters and possible animation to follow.

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Walk Cycles

Walk cycles are always fun! (mandatory fun...) The first walk cycle is standard on 8's the second is on 12's.

Pig Farmer

YouTube did a great job selecting a keyframe to display ... just watch it, it's not what you think.

Dogfight!

Look! It's a bird, it's a plane ... no, it's just some jets.

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Characters

A few more characters from Character Design class last semester.

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