Junior Year Final

Lucky, for my sanity, the last semester of Junior year was mainly focused on one project. A few of my peers and I decided we were going to actually produce the project we had pitched in our pre-production class, The Fox and The Monkey. In the background of this new 'Digital Frontiers' class we were also learning how to model a Vermier painting and rig it, which is probably the single most painful assignment I have ever had to complete in my 17 years of schooling. By happenstance I have no documentation of that awful project. The Fox and The Monkey was originally intended to be about a minute longer but we ran out of time near the end so this became a perpetual WIP.

Second Semester Junior Year Begins

Lip Sync. We were given freedom as to which medium we wanted to animate in and so I choose hand-drawn. Upon getting this assignment I searched the inter-webs for some good audio. In retrospect I wish I had chosen something with a little more emotion, though I am happy with the way this turned out.

First Semester Junior Year Final

The Final for the Intro to Maya class was to use basic forms to show emotion and tell a story. I combined this project with a final from a Sound for Animation class in which I was required to completely create a soundscape. I used samples of acoustic chords and laughs that I recorded to create the audio track. For the visuals I used Maya, which was required, to bookend my project and in the middle utilized a magic marker abstract animation that I had been working on in my free time (to keep my sanity) to create a visual break in the middle of the project and drive the narrative.
Enjoy, Geoi.


Here is a time lapse of me animating 'Geoi'

Pre-Production Final

The final project for the pre-production class was quite a doosey. We were allowed to form groups so I partnered up with Sakari Singh and Laura Ambrosiano and we put together a pitch for a short film titled 'The Fox and The Monkey'. We wanted to tell a lesser known fairy tale and found this one in an African fairy tales book. This fairy tale was so short that we decided to bookend it with little snippets of another fairy tale which happened to be of Indian origins. This is the animatic we pitched.




and here are some pre-production images




-Character design by Laura Amrosiano


-Character design by Sakari Singh


-Characters by Me

Animal Walk Cycle

As we neared the end of the semester, the projects began to get pretty difficult. This was an assignment to animate a quadrupedal walk cycle. I choose a wolf.