Used Maya, Nuke, Zbrush, After Effects, Photoshop, and Premiere shot_01: From my student short film “Growing Up.” I’m responsible for everything in this shot. shot_02: Responsible for all animation, lighting, rendering. Rig is the “Eleven” built by the 11 sec club community. This is my 15th place finish entry into the February 2012 11 Second [...]
I placed 15th out of 189 entries in February’s 11 Second Club competition. This was my second time entering this contest, last time I placed 18th. The voting period is always at the beginning of every month and on a scale of 1-11. It’s usually a fairly tight competition: if I had only .5 more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
After reading Graham Taylor’s keynote speech from LA’s Film Fest, this is me taking the time to blog, which I should be doing more. The biggest news from me recently is I placed 3rd and won $3,800 in the Brisk Tea animation contest. I created this animation concurrent with my school assignments so I didn’t [...]
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