Sumo Subway Sashay

Exploring animating on 2's

Bite

Practicing some facial performance. It was fun getting into character to explore some acting choices.

Thank you to Anna White at Agora.community for the feedback.

Malcolm rig by AnimSchool

AnimSchool Class 5 - Character Performance

 This is my final shot from the AnimSchool Character Performance class I attended.

Thank you Scott McWhinnie, I had a great learning experience in your class.

Well done to my classmates on their fantastic pieces, it was super to see how everyone's shots developed.

AnimSchool Class 4 - Body Acting

 This is my final shot from the AnimSchool Body Acting class I attended.

Thank you Jean-Luc Delhougne for all your enthusiasm and guidance during the term. It was a great learning experience and I'm very pleased with the result.

Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale

1967-1969 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale

An Italian classic

Modelling, shading, lighting and rendering in Maya, using Arnold.

Textures created in Adobe Photoshop

UV unwrapping using 3D Coat

Getting into Character

One of the fun and challenging aspects of this type of project is coming up with a unique scenario to go with the audio. Sometimes the scene just pops into my mind and other times I've got to work hard to develop it.

For this 11 Second Club audio, 2 female characters were working through a situation.
These are some of the main points I needed to work out in order to come up with the animation:
-  Whats going through their heads as they reacted to the dialogue of the other character?
-  They go through emotional changes, what are they and what do they look like?
-  How do I compose the scene to best show the emotional changes and interactions.

I came up with these emotional/character traits for the characters which helped me compose the shot
Mom: authority, rule breaker, problem solver, confident
Girl: shy, nervous, inquisitive.

- View the final animation below -