Plumber Short Final Turn-In

Here is what I turned in for my final. It, of course, needs a lot more finalization. Unfortunantly, a term at my school is only 5 weeks long, and a good 1/3rd of that time is spent learning how to do what we want to, hehe. I know everything I need to finish it now, and will work on completing it as I have time. Enjoy.

Breakdowns Begun

Here is some progress on my breakdowns.

Some of my props were made by Flester Iulian. These include the LCD, Microphone, and Chair.

Quick Study

Felt bored so I did a quick 30 minute animation study of a character slipping and falling.

The Sets

I've mashed together the important set assests that the characters will be interacting with.

Here are some quick renders:

Two Big Projects

I've begun work on two short and fun animation projects. They will hopefully aid in showcasing my ability as an animator, and also be a lot of fun to make. I have a personal deadline to finish them in five weeks. So we'll see how complete I can make them. With the critical eyes of my peers I suspect I can do a pretty good job.

Here are the two storyboards for the shorts. The curry eating story was received well, but the plumber story needs some work. Expect an updated storyboard.

Extra Hot Curry:

Plumbing Matters:

Unfortunantly the bottoms of the boards got cut off. Oh well.

First Blender Animation

I decided to jump in and start learning how to animate using Blender. I really liked it. I found it to be much easier and enjoyable than animating in Maya. I've animated a simple rolling Ball for my test. I'd like to learn to rig a robot character I've modeled so I can try a character animation. So probably my next step will be to Rig a bouncy ball and animate that.

Animation 01 - The Backflip

Here is one of my better homework assignments from Animation 01 (Using Maya2008). Its actually pretty horrible, but I only had one night to try and learn to do a back flip animation. I mostly blame my lack of knowing how to properly manipulate the IPO graph. I'm confident I could do far better now.