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Fire cycle
This cycle is part of an animated torch logo. I credit the masterful work of John Halas & Harold Whitaker, whose drawings I referred to in creating this piece.
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Tagged 2d animation, cartoon, cel animation, fire cycle, flames, hand drawn
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crow walk
a bouncy shuffle walk based on R. Williams’ subtle skip walk
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Tagged animation, 2d animation, cel, hand drawn, bird cartoon, cartoon, walkcycle, bird, crow, walk cycle
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Cadillac Mood
Dialogue from 1991 film “Twenty-One.” Modeled and animated with Maya; funkaliscious groovy mood lighting done with Photoshop.
Stars ‘n Stripes Hildy
I created this piece for a friend who is running for Congress in 2012.
I modeled, mapped, rigged and animated the character with Maya. My old version has some serious bugs with animImport, but I discovered a great freeware mel script for importing animation curves. It’s called dkAnim, and it worked flawlessly. Thanks D. Kramer for making such a great tool available!
The sneakers are Nurbs objects which I animated with stand in geometry since they were fairly memory intensive.
Hildy’s large head called for small movements to avoid looking wobbly. A little went a long way.
The walk cycle is based on a Milt Kahl strut/walk.
Power to the People!
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Tagged 3d, 3d character animation art acting, acting, animation, art, character
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bouncing balls
For this test, I had an idea of what kinds of balls I wanted to use, but didn’t think about how they could interact until I saw a smiley ball on eBay. Then things started to come together bit by bit.
To prevent the balls from slipping as they roll, I used an expression to establish the relationship between the ball rotateZ and the translateX of a parent cube node which drives the Z rotation as I drag the cube along in X. I was surprised this equation wasn’t clearly spelled out on any site I searched, so here it is:
Sphere.rotateZ = -360*Cube.translateX/(2*3.14*r)
In the case of the smiley ball which bounces on his head and then starts to roll, I had to use the inverse of the equation:
Sphere.rotateZ = 360*Cube.translateX/(2*3.14*r)
software used: Maya & Photoshop
flight cycle test
Searching for a middle ground here, i.e. punching up the accents without overdoing it. Final character look and feel will be painterly–which should loosen things up some more.
crow glide test
Gliding to the bongo beat. I may end up going with a simpler side to side action, but I enjoyed doing the swoopy stuff to see if I could pull it off. Will add a camera pan down too.
Penny Priddy
My first 3D dialogue test, which I modeled, rigged and animated with Maya. Dialogue from “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.”
