Category Archives: Show Reel

Character TD Demo – The Kaylee Rig (Sticky)

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Fighting the urge to be unproductive, I locked myself in the house for the past few days to get some work done on a new character TD demo.  Been under the weather anyhow and didn’t feel like doing much else, not even surf *gasp!*.  Here it is in all it’s beautiful animator friendly simplicity.  I plan on extending this demo with character animation tools.  I can’t wait to get away from creating demos and rendering video and go back to actually programming and rigging stuff!  I have so much more advanced rigging techniques to show and some that haven’t gotten to a finished stage on my characters yet so stay tuned.

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Animation Alert! Salesman Pete and the Amazing Stone

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Keep in mind the is made by some STUDENTS in France!!  It is un-be-liev-able!  The rigging and animation are exquisite, magnificent–astounding!!  I love the acting, vivid envornment, and the smart combination of 2D and 3D animation elements.  The design is all very well done.  I honestly haven’t been excited for an animation like this in years.

Check out the artist’s websites, especially E Sousa Vincent’s rigging reel.

This is truly inspirational stuff.  I need to go where they went for school.  I am working on a similar reel myself and I need to research how to make some of the faces as deformable as the ones for their animations.

I can’t wait to see what’s next!  Looks like another short called Meet Buck.

Their awesome website and blog:

http://www.salesmanbuck.com/

http://www.salesman-pete.blogspot.com/

 

Paul Griffin Showreel

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This is an old colleague of mine.  I am very privileged to call him that because he worked on the original Tron movie as an animator.  We worked on The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons together and he’s such a nice guy.  I hope that my work someday will stand up, or at least crouch next to his.  Anyway, he just came out with another show reel recently and I thought i’d share.

He also animates with his family using his home as a studio which is brilliant. The family that animates together, stays together, I always say. Search for his other stuff including his short on Vimeo.