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hipster run cycle

walkin'

zombie lip sync

secret rendevous?

The lip sync turned out really good on this.

Nutcracker E-Card

Here's a scene I animated on a new show called 'The Deerskins" that was turned into an e-card for Christmas.  The series won't be on the air for a few more months, so in the meantime check out the facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/thunder.deerskins 
and 'friend' us.

Demo reel 2012

My demo reel of the stuff I worked on recently.

run run run animated

Piggy Bank

Zombie walk

I can't believe I did not post this old walk cycle from my old website. I moved over some of the stuff I liked from my old site to this blog a long time ago, some life drawing, some character designs...but I forgot all about this zombie walking.  I wonder what other stuff I forgot.

Bounce

 A little something in development. I bet you wish your pants could turn into a beach ball. It sure looks fun.

meat locker scene...UPDATED with AUDIO!!!

I took the audio out of this clip so it doesn't keep repeating the dialog when anyone is on this blog page, but with the audio this is one of the funniest scenes I've ever animated.  I also added a swinging motion to the carcasses and a shadow behind the characters.

UPDATE: Added the dialog and a Play Button (per the suggestion from my super-awesome girlfriend).

Aardman Animations

It wasn't until I finished this scene and played it back that it instantly reminded me of Aardman Animations work. The shifty, darting eyes, the mouth shapes, and the timing are all very reminiscent of Wallace and Gromit  or my personal Aardman favorite, Creature Comforts. I imagine if Aardman films were in 2D instead of Claymation or Stop-Motion, they would look something like this.

Horse Lips

A pretty funny lip sync.

breakdown

 So here is a detailed look at how this piece is animated. The top is the starting pose. I needed to add a bit of an anticipation. One thing I absolutley hate about flash animation is when you see a whole character as one symbol that stretches up and squashes down. It looks cheap, it looks awful. I've seen this alot in early flash animated shows. But there is a time and place for everything, and in this case I used it too. The way it is used here is okay, it's very subtle, but it serves as an important anticapation to the huge wipe.



You can see, above, how the whole character is a symbol that is stretched. It works for this pupose because the next 2 inbetweens are not symbols or tweened animation. They are good ol' fashioned inbetween drawings. You know? Like animation should be. The two middle pics on the top show the inbetweens. The action is quick, I used a wipe...AGAIN. What really makes it work is the secondary action of her belt and her hair when she lands on the desk...as seen below.

So there you have it; two inbetweens to go from the character standing to her pounding on the desk and laughing, made possible because of a cheap and easy symbol tween as an anticipation.

all together now

Here's the 3 laugh cycles strung together. There is a second character that will also be in the scene laughing with him, that's why you hear two different people laughing.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

Laugh cycles.

great voice acting

I am animating an 11 minute short film written by Ken Edwards. The script is great, which is why I took on this project. And if a funny script wasn't enough, the voice acting is superb, just listen to the voice acting by Steve Rimpici. He plays multiple parts in this film; in the scene here, he plays St. Peter.

splash

This is another scene I worked on for Ugly Americans. It was so nice to work on frame by frame, hand drawn, traditional animation (albeit digital), rather than that tweened puppet animation you see a lot of these days. The show turned out fantastic, looks great.