Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

I thought this music video by the Gorillaz was pretty cool. There's 2D animation, and 3D. I think I have a thing for making music vids.. -__-;
their concerts look really cool. Same song, but live in concert. I want to go to one!!

Their other music videos are pretty cool, too.

Demo Reel Fall 2007

My demo reel from last semester. Finally uploaded to Blogger. Although there's new stuff, I'd rather think of it as an updated demo reel.

ACM 315, Game Demo Animation

Here's a short animation I did in Flash demo-ing a game that my class is mimicking. We have 6 artists and about 10 programmers. The artists come up with assets (the images of the ball, bumpers, bricks, brick disappearing animations, background) and then we give the assets to the programmers and they take the actual game script of a basic, pong-type game (found on the adobe site somewhere) and substitute our assets into the script so it doesn't look plain. So when they're done, the artist's assets will be the images and animations in the game.

It was hard working with the pixels because the asset sizes were so small, but it was pretty cool seeing our stuff in action. I had to learn and re-learn flash to make everything work. With that, the artists had to learn Flash and come up with a mock animation of how the game would look and how the game sounds would look. So I got to re-learn tweening (motion and shape) and figure out what would work. So this is what I came up with:



When the programmers are done, I'd say a person would actually be able to control the bumper and play this as a game. It's supposed to be due Tuesday, so we'll see how it turns out! :)

An Updated 2D Jump from Last Semester

Better late than never ;) Here's how my 2D jump turned out.. I think in the end I had to add a time strech in AE because it originally turned out way too fast.

ACM 325 Visual Effects, HW1

The assignment was to composite ourselves into one of four images, 3 of 5 were paintings. So I chose this one.

Dialogue Scene from Last Semester

This post is late.
I know I didn't get to really finish this... I didn't get to finish the last line of my dialogue, but here's what it came out to at the end:

Kyle found out that the dialogue is from Disney's National Treasure. :P

Soon to come: Last Semester's demo reel

Inspirational Animation

I know it's not really "new", but I really liked this animation demo reel that Linda showed us last semester. It hasn't really gotten old yet..


And, even though it's not quite the type of animation we're doing.. I love what's going on in the Linkin Park music videos, Breaking the Habit (looks rotoscoped) and In the End (mostly 3D environment). Music plays a big part in what I do for animation because it helps set my mood as far as what kind of feeling I'd like to get for something. Watching a lot of "Making of" videos helps inspire me also.

Breaking the Habit :: Linkin Park (YouTube)

In The End :: Linkin Park (YouTube)