Animation: First semester Junior project

Here is the lastest animation I've worked on at DigiPen. The entire thing was planned and created within the first semester of my Junior year. On this project I focused mainly on creating my own rig that would be capable of controlling a hanging jacket like his does, as well as focusing on his animation.

Animation: Game team enemy

Some first pass animations for the Surge character in the Digipen game I'm working on.

Ichi Process Work

Here Is just a taste of the massive amount of process work that went into creating my Ichi animation. First off I'll show some character comps of when I was designing Ichi himself. Also I'd like to say, during the planning period of this character, me and my classmates had to draw a house style out of a hat. I actually ended up getting the style of 'Tim Burton' or more specifically, 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'. Which hopefully shows in all of my process work, and more so in the final design.





There was also a lot of thought put into the instrument he plays oddly enough. It actually didn't turn out to be a big part of my animation, but it was definitly a big part in the story that Ichi actually came from.





After all of these concepts were processed then reviewed by my teacher, we both chose on what would be the best choice for my character depending on the house style I got.



Last I have thumbnails of a storyboard for this Ichi animation. Which shows the thought I put into each of my shots before I went in and animated it all.

Doodles!

Alright! Adding more to my art dump here; first off we have some drawings that I did at life drawing sessions. The majority of the ones shown here in this picture are actually pretty recent.



Here's a little bit more of drawing people from life, however these people were 'regular' people walking around a comic book convention. All done at Comic Con 09.



Now as for this next one, it's a little bit older but I don't find myself drawing big cats too often... I should practice them again. Anyways, I did these back when I was trying to learn the anatomy of big cats and practice drawing them since in my first large scale animation project with Ichi, his familiar was actually, a big cat.



Next are all just random doodles I drew for the hell of it. However, working through a lot of facial ideas on this page, I ended up creating a pretty interesting character that I possibly will use for an animation in the future.



And last, here's what the more refined look for the character that I made up through my random doodle fest in the last picture. He looks like he could have a really funny story to him. Personally I imagined him as some kind of depressed or easily angered ice cream truck driver.