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warm wishes

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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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crow walk

a bouncy shuffle walk based on R. Williams’ subtle skip walk

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Cadillac Mood

Dialogue from 1991 film “Twenty-One.” Modeled and animated with Maya; funkaliscious groovy mood lighting done with Photoshop.

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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