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'

Hitamus Rocketus

Anticipation is one of the major aspects of good animation. This project was a lesson based solely on that principle. This would be a good point to mention that almost all of the characters I use in these projects come out of stream of consciousness sketching which is just about how I do all of my sketches. Generally i have no idea what I'm about to draw until I start putting pencil to paper.