Introduction to Acting - Class 4

This was a fantastic class. I learnt so much. I had the great opportunity to be mentored by Joe Antonuccio who is currently a Lead Animator at Blue Sky Studios. He was working on Ice Age 4 and Epic during this time.

Music from flashkit.com

Rokk Mann

Rokk Mann the film is finally finished.
Don't forget to watch in HD!!

Rokk Mann is an animated VFX short film. He is the metaphorical figure of all life. He is born, he learns, he grows and progresses, and, like all living, must return to where he came from.

The backdrop to Rokk Mann's struggle for life is the ancient and rugged landscape of South East Queensland's Main Range National Park, or commonly known as 'The Great Dividing Range'. It was filmed on top of Mt Maroon.

Advanced Body Mechanics - Class 3

This class was very fun. It started off with a blast animating to some dance music which turned out pretty good.
My mentor was John Nguyen who has worked on Transformers 2 & 3, The Mummy 3, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Tron Legacy, X Men... just to name a few.

Psychology of Body Mechanics - Class 2

My assignments from Animation Mentors class 2 - Psychology of Body Mechanics. Also, one assignment from the fist class. This is actually my submission for the student showcase of 2012. Fingers crossed I get at least one piece in there.

Week 12 - Animation Mentor Basic Foundation Fall 2011 Show Reel

 

House of the Dead: Overkill

First time for my name in credits for the PS3 Game: House of the Dead: Overkill.
I worked on some cut scenes between the game play.

Here are the credits (name is at 0:44)

Big blue bubbles running around...

The company I work for usually creates animated story boards and previsualizations for TV commercials. Here is what a finished TV commercial looks like after the long process of conception, story boarding, animating the story boards (animatics), and finally production of the final commercial...




This small piece (above), re-created by the company I worked for, was for their Show Reel.
So in a nutshell, we made the animatic, another company made the real commercial that got played on TV, then we re-made it to see if we could do it. I think we pulled it off.

I did all animation in these 2 scenes. I also animated the foam in PFlow which were tweaked later on.

I also did some rigging work on the bubbles.

A very talented artist, Ken, initially rigged the bubbles. So it's the results of his rig you see pulling the bubbles around. I was asked by the TD to re-rig it to see if I could improve it in any way.... Well 2 rigs later we have a pretty solid rig.

So here is a very boring snippet if anyone is interested in the rig.