"Rocky and Trusdale"

Well. I've stalled long enough. Below is my first animated short that was produced in CGT 241 at IUPUI. We were given one semester to create an animated short from concept to creation.

The feel of the story is something that you would expect from something like Tom and Jerry. My story is about two dinosaurs: Rocky the T. Rex and Trusdale the Parasaurolophus, and how Rocky has his eyes set on Trusdale being lunch. However, Trusdale uses his cleverness to get out of the situation.

Without further ado..."Rocky and Trusdale" Higher quality can be seen here

Enjoy!

Almost There!

Well, I have almost completed my animated short. Working on the sound as I type this. Below are some more teaser images to enjoy until the deadline this Thursday. Mark your calenders! :)

A Little Teaser...of sorts

I'm in the process of animating my B-hind off right now for my introduction to animation class. However, as seeing I haven't shown much of my project since the animatic stage, here is a revolve of my T. Rex: "Rocky" with model/wireframe/textured views. It is the same one that was shown at the SIGGRAPH IUPUI Student Exhibition last Friday (which by the way was an AWESOME event).

Kinetic Typography: "Beauty and the Beast" (1993)

Here is the latest project from my advanced design class. We were to select a piece of audio and animate text to it. I chose an excerpt from "Beauty and the Beast." This dialogue sequence is where Beast becomes angry about Belle not coming to dinner. Anywho, here it is:

AFS Central Indiana Chapter Brochure and Logo Design

Our most recent design project was for the American Foundry Society-Central Indiana Chapter. They are hosting the 2009 Midwest Regional Conference in mid-October. We were to develop a logo and brochure for the client, and here is what I came up with. (Brochure front, back, flyer, and logo)

Riggin' Stuff

I thought I'd post what I've done for the rigging tutorial that is available to us in our animation class. (I highly recommend that anyone beginning in 3D should at least try to do this tutorial).

Basically you are given the "Pluggo" Model and rig him with a couple of wire parameters (knee swiveling and ankle rolling). I decided to take an extra step and play with morpers a little- to get some eye blinkage in there.

Here is a basic jump animation I did with the rig. Far from perfect, but that what practice is for-to get better.




Just to show some improvement comparison:
I did the Blender Animation Tutorial (the more in-depth one minus the lip syncing) over the previous summer, and I must say that it paid off HUGE with my current animation class. The class material is coming much easier and quicker to me than I thought. My advice: Anyone who is going to be in 241 next semester: Play around in Blender or any other software over the summer. It will pay off.
(BTW...Blender is FREE in case you didn't know --> http://www.blender.org/)

Anyhoo...Here be the video mateys:

Long Overdue Update

I figured it would probably be best to post on my blog after neglecting it for so long. There are quite a few projects I am working on right now. I'll update them over the next couple days.

For today's post: "Rocky and Trusdale"

Right now (yes...at 3:16am) I'm finishing my textures and lighting, and preparing for rigging. I'm finding rigging not as tough as I had initially thought, it's rather therapeutic actually.

Below is my 360 view of my main models:



This is a couple weeks late, but comments & critiques are always welcome. (And yes I do know that the smaller dinosaur doesn't look too friendly)