Senior Thesis Preview

Throughout the entire semester we were supposed to be working on our thesis films. At the end of the semester we were required to give a presentation to the entire department about how the production was going. I was pretty on schedule and so I made this little trailer.

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'

Wheelbarrow

For the next Maya assignment we were given a choice to either use Maya or hand drawn. The object was to show a character exerting themselves with some form of weight. I had my character attempt to lift a wheelbarrow full of turnip heads.

First Walk Cycle

This was my first walk cycle. The process here was much like that of the bouncing ball. We had one go at the thing and then a revision and then we dropped character. I had a few options of characters to use so that's what I put at the end.

The Birth of Earth

Our next project was kind of a freebie. Our professor had to go on a 2 week trip so we had free rain to create a 30 sec or longer animation by the time he got back. Our only prompt was to think about 'visual rhythms'.




Also in an adjacent class called Designing the Frame we began to explore Adobe Photoshop and Iluustrator while also touching on composition theory and some aspects of preproduction. This specific project we had to create a scene that represented good vs Evil. We were also limited to a very specific color palette.

First Bouncing Ball

And just like every other animator in the whole world, our second assignment was the famous bouncing ball.