SLICE

(CGI final)



SLICE from Maddy Trower on Vimeo.

More rough animation

2nd third of my animation, approximated. i swear he'll be okay in the end.

the roughest of cuts

(ROUGH ROUGH ROUGH TOTALLY NOT CLOSE TO DONE!!!!)

Anyway here is a really approximate sketch/draft of the first half of my animation. Just so no one worries about this (I'm looking at you, parents), I'll just give some spoilers and let you know that this is not suicide and the character ends up much happier at the end of the piece than at the start. I just reviewed the animation a few times and I realized that the start looks pretty dark for A.E. here. But he'll be okay. I promise.

Ready to start animating!

I've got my basic building model put together, and that's enough for me to start the bare bones animation. I can put in the rest of the environment later, so I'm really psyched to start seeing some movement in the mean time.

A note on the character: He is not an alien or a skeleton man or anything, he is just a character that emerged fully formed from my brain a few months back. He has no name, save for the initials A.E. He is often seen with another character of mine, Y.A., although A.E. is generally the protagonist in their adventures/interactions.

I thought about posting the storyboard for my animation, but I'd rather keep it a secret for surprise purposes. Also I may change my idea a bit in production so I don't want to show something that may not be realized. For now, here's two more images from the process! Expect more soon...

Determining scale for the primary environment

Lighting/posing experiment to test my rig

HE LIVES

Had to redo the skin weighting twice due to my own ineptitude, but here he moves and breathes now.


Movement Test from Maddy Trower on Vimeo.

3-Jointed Character

This weeks assignment was to animate a forward-kinematic 3-jointed character expressing anger. I kind of got caught up in the interaction between the characters, so I lost the anger part a bit, but I'm happy with the outcome overall.  I wish I'd had more time to figure out how to switch cameras or compose the scene a little better.

GIF(T)

I just learned tonight how to make animated GIFs in photoshop! Or any types of animation, for that matter. Please enjoy this pointless experiment / assault on the eyes. Images used are both mine, photo is of my good pal robbie.

Computer Animation Final

I realized today that I hadn't posted anything from my computer animation wintersession course. That's partially because I'm very underwhelmed with the work I produced in the class and partially because I haven't put all the videos up on youtube. In any case, here is my final from the class. A disclaimer: I basically put this together in three nights (we only got a week to animate and I had my other course to worry about). So between the shortness, the poor narration (I had half an hour to record), and some awkward animation, I'm not too happy with it. But enough complaints, here's the video: