Project Quadroped - Breakdown

Quadroped Animation by me,
Model/Rig and compositing by my CG buddy Camilla Cording,

we both worked on the early design...

The torso had some rotation-issues that there weren't any time to fix, so I didn't exactly end up with what I had originally intended and our lovely CatFrog is still wobbly on her arcs because of this near the end. She is still very lovely and I'm proud of the beginning. The feet-rigging is amazing, so props to her! :D

Somehow the sound doesn't work in this file I got...

freestyle - now with a spork-gun

Because why not?

1st year exam - FINAL -

A week of final exam assignment. We had a three panel storyboard in which the character Danny (oh god, not that spaghetti-cat again!) comes stumbling into the scene to pick up a ringing phone, he gets it takes a breath to speak, but realizes that the caller has hung up. He then has to change his mood to resentfully look at the phone. I did the action pretty straightforward, as the storyboard called for.

Still, ignoring the fact that I'm less than loving the character model, it was still fun.

Layout

2 out of 3 layouts I did for Layout class, taught by Marec Fritzinger - very charming fellow.
I had no idea what layout was until then, and now I have even more people I must pay respects to, when watching my favourite animated movies.

These are two layouts done by hand with light blue prismacolour and HB pencil, based on a deleted-scene storyboard from "The Emperor's New Groove".

Here, showing first the actual, full layout and below it, the final 16:9 composition. I wanted a sad and oppressed feel.

You do get to brush up on your "perspective-drawing skills". Here's the second one and it's final version below:

I even did a style guide, to use as reference for what Mayan symbols to use within the city, the scale and shapes of things and such. ANd then I just taped on a clean-up version of the character for model reference.