One intense year of study has come to a close as I have graduated Vancouver Film School and completed my animated short film ‘Growing Up!’ I hope the message of the short film is clear and that it resonates with some people. I could not have completed this project without the help of my classmates, [...]
[Update: I placed 18th out of 202 entries] Fresh out of VFS and I was anxious to keep working! It’s like an addiction! I was talking to my classmates that we should start a support group for recent graduates, ha! You get so accustomed to going to school every day and working, it’s tough to [...]
I’m at it again with another contest video and this is the sixth year Doritos has ran this competition and it is the most well-known and competitive contest all year! Why? Because 1 million dollars and Super Bowl-level exposure is at stake! In addition, this year they are adding the opportunity to create a commercial [...]
Over the last 8 months I’ve learned and been exposed to a vast amount of information at VFS. I’ve taken classes on classical animation, character design, visual storytelling, history of animation, 3D animation, editing, composition, sculpture, team building, creative development, modeling, shading, texturing, rigging, lighting, compositing, life drawing, and acting. I still have 4 months [...]
Term 4 has come to an end at Vancouver Film School and I wanted to post an animation we have been working on during this last term. The goal was to have a character walk on screen, react to something, and then run off. My take on it was a guy trying to catch a [...]
This past week was filled with interesting talks and meeting some very talented people in the film industry at Siggraph held at the Vancouver Convention Center, the first time the conference was held outside the US. Some of the talks I attended included watching Pixar’s new short La Luna with a talk from the director, [...]
Voting for my newest competition film ends this Wednesday, so please take a moment to go vote! You can vote by going to the contest’s YouTube page HERE. Then click the “Vote” tab, and look for my video in the “Vote for these Videos” window to the right of the current video that’s playing. I [...]
Completed in Term 3 (of 6) at Vancouver Film School’s 3D Animation and VFX program. The assignment was to do a run cycle with a jump in the middle. I wanted to make it more interesting so I took a wing rig from Digital Tutors and attached it to the Norman rig to help him [...]
Completed in Term 3 (of 6) at Vancouver Film School’s 3D Animation and VFX program. The assignment was to come up with your own kind of ‘stylized’ walk:
I’ve taken quite a long hiatus from entering video contests after not making the finals, or placing, in about one dozen contests last year. The whole crowdsourcing and contest-entering thing can get pretty old pretty quick. It’s great practice but I definitely needed a break and scale back how many I was entering. But, with [...]
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