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11 Second Club 3rd Place
Several of the Moonbot animators rallied together last month to do the 11 Second Club for April. Two of us finished and we placed second and third. http://www.11secondclub.com/competitions/april13 What I learned from winning in December I applied to April’s entry: don’t quit. Unlike December, I had chemotherapy scheduled. I wasn’t sure if I would be able [...]
LEGO Duplo
I recently created 5 web videos for LEGO Duplo toys. Luckily, my family is the on-screen talent and I’m thankful they agreed to be the stars. This project was facilitated through Tongal.com of which I’ve been a contributing member for a few years. My set of videos ranked in second, you should be able to [...]
11 Second Club win
UPDATE: Interview with AnimSchool here UPDATE 2: eCritique by Jean-Denis Haas here I am very excited I won the 11 Second Club for December 2012! There were some great entries this last month and I did not expect to win. I first heard of the competition in school about a year and a half ago when [...]
Build. Make. Hack. Grow.
Earlier this year I spent several months in San Francisco working with the great group of guys at DIY. I blogged on how that came about earlier. After I completed the animation at DIY, they still had to score the piece and wait for the right time to post the video based on the features [...]
NASA
I loved this project even though it was very short lived. From the time I created my pitch to final render was about two days. I really enjoy the process of brainstorming an idea in my head and then going out and making that thing that used to only live in my brainacle. If you [...]
WeRx.org Video
Update: WeRx.org is back in beta testing so the video will not be viewable for a little while. The guys from WeRx contacted me a little while back after they saw some of my previous work and were interested in me putting together a video for them that helped explained what WeRx is all [...]
Animation Reel
Lucas Ridley Animation Reel v2 from Lucas Ridley on Vimeo. 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 [...]
The Suitcase – AnimSchool
While between jobs in San Francisco and Los Angeles I wanted to make sure that I continued to animate and improve. That’s why I joined the ‘body acting’ class at AnimSchool. My animation above is the result of that class. AnimSchool maybe the only online animation school that offers students to take one class instead [...]
ScoreBigDaily Video
I recently won a contest over at Tongal in a new format they’ve created. This contest was only open to pitches from the top 100 members of Tongal (based off of previous winnings). I was 42nd at the time I submitted my pitch but now I should jump up a couple spots. They haven’t announced [...]
11-sec Club – Emergency Exit
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 [...]
Growing Up – Animated Short Film
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, [...]
11-sec Club – Leftover Thursdays
[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 [...]
