Final Video

Flicker: The Game - Animations

These animations were produced for the game Flicker, a project created by the group Ctrl+Z for the Game Development module. I have animated most of the main character's movements and some of the enemy.

Hide and Seek - Work in Progress

The Motion Capture data has been implemented and I am animating the wolf. I still need to finish the facial animations, fix some slight skinning problems, implement the cloth simulation, improve a few camera placements and add some lights.

Motion Capture

I did my Motion Capture Shoot for the project on Wednesday 23rd of January and it went well. Since then I have cleaned my data and imported everything into 3ds Max but I still need to fix the animations. Here is a short video of two of the main actions that will appear in my final piece: when the woman stumble on a root and when she fights against the wolf and escape. This my the actress performing these actions in the mocap suit and the result in Motion Builder.

First 3D Animatic

Here is the link to watch it on vimeo:

These are the simple props that I have built for my animation.

 This is a screenshot of the whole scene.

Final Year Project: Hide and Seek

I will post here the work I am doing for my final year project at Teesside University.
My project is called Hide and Seek. It will be a one minute 3D animation film rendered in 3ds Max and involving two characters: a woman and a wolf.
The story is quite simple: a woman is chased in a forest by a wolf. She climbs on a tree to save herself but one of the branches collapses on the wolf and kills it.

Here is the storyboard:

Here is the wolf mesh I use. I downloaded it from here  http://thefree3dmodels.com/stuff/animal/wolf/24-1-0-1275  and I changed it slightly: I modeled the mouth and the fangs.

I made the woman's mesh myself. I am still working on her clothes.

I will use Motion Capture for most of the woman's animations such as the running, the stumbling, etc, but I will hand-animate the climbing. I will also add some simple facial animations like gasps, fear...(by simple I mean no lip sych because there will be no dialogues).
Cloth simulation will be implemented, I am still working on it for my Advanced Animation for Games module.
I will create a simple landscape with dead trees, shades of grey and fog ("Limbo style").

Portfolio Video

In this video, I put some life drawings I did when I was in high school and some short animations I did during my free time.