Cubic Force

spent an hour this morning rotoscoping a cube shattering by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, thought it would be a good study, the next one will be all me I promise :) 

Storyboard and Rough Animation

Design for the giant Scorpion walker with laser tail

 

Rough animation so far composited together, the 3D scene will be imported into Toon Boom Harmony and painted over to make it 2D

Senior Film - Redirection

Sooooo my senior film has changed.  Seeing as I'm a 2D special effects animator I decided to go with a film that is more focused on special effects.  So it's back to Logic & Passion (working title) which is about a young autistic boy with a device powered by the imagination that he keeps in his backpack.  In this film he will be using it to get to, protect, and extract the other main character from a very dangerous situation.  I started the rough animation, I'll post some of it soon along with storyboards!

Movement

Here is an update on how the machine will activate and one of the possible camera movements.  Thank you to Carlos Estrada for the awesome design and functionality.  It will be imported to Toon Boom and painted over. 

Senior Film - Young Boy Model Sheet

Just got the latest turnaround sheet from my character designer, rough animation updates will follow!  Thank you Waymond Singleton! 

Energy

More inspiration for the machine after full activation

Particles 1:45-3:30


Energy sphere  1:30-2:00


Cool particle effect 1:07-1:14

Senior film - Machine and Inspiration

An update on the Machine - One of the concept designs by Carlos Estrada for the machine.  I built a very quick model in maya and started to animate it to get an idea of how it's going to move in the preliminary stages.

 

I also wanted to add this link to a short film by Nelson Boles which is a big inspiration for the technical approach to my Senior film.

http://vimeo.com/4566083