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Dragon in Flight

AUG
15
2010
Posted in category Finished animations | 405 views
Tags: dragon  character  animation  model  special effects  effects  rigging  texturing 
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View in HD An animation of my dragon model in flight. The animation could've done with some more work, especially on the neck, tail and front legs, but it'll do for now.

Composited in After Effects as a bunch of layers to edit in the environment, clouds, dragon model and other effects in separately, to control the motion blur and depth of field independently.

Highlights video

JUL
24
2010
 
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Car rig

JUL
07
2010
Posted in category Animation | 463 views
Tags: animation 
 
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Characters

JUL
07
2010
Posted in category Animation | 388 views
Tags: animation 
 
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An example of a modelled, rigged, unwrapped and textured character. I didn't spend much time on the animation as it was just a test - that's to come later.

Camera matching

JUN
26
2010
Posted in category Animation | 304 views
Tags: animation  camera match 
 
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Monkey

JUN
03
2010
Posted in category Images | 1376 views
Tags: monkey  image  character  animation  model  texture  unwrap 
monkey A modelled, unwrapped, textured, rigged and animated character

Mr Ball

JUN
03
2010
Posted in category Images | 1245 views
Tags: mr_ball  image  character  animation  model  shaders 
mr_ball Used on the home page of my site, and perhaps in future animations

Careless

JUN
03
2010
Posted in category Images | 1061 views
Tags: careless  image  character  animation 
careless Simple character to demonstrate the word 'careless' in an animation

Robotic Ball Animation

APR
24
2010
Posted in category Work In progress | 4328 views
Tags: robotic ball  animation  character  mental ray  glow  transformer  robot 
 
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A robotic transforming ball initially to be used for the home page of my website but possibly for more in future.

Black Hawk Crash

APR
17
2010
Posted in category Finished animations | 3312 views
Tags: special effects  black hawk  helicopter  crash  animation  effects  environment 
 
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A special effects animation of a crashing helicopter.

Click here for some of the work in progress videos View in HD

Animation cycles - walk

MAR
20
2010
Posted in category Character animation and loops | 1668 views
Tags: animation  cycles  walk 
 
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Character animation loop

Animation cycles - monkey

MAR
20
2010
Posted in category Character animation and loops | 1514 views
Tags: animation  cycles  monkey 
 
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Monkey animation loop

Animation cycles

MAR
20
2010
Posted in category Finished animations | 3909 views
Tags: animation  cycles  loops  character 
 
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Character animation loops.

Other cycles:
Walk
Monkey walk
Polar bear walk

More... View in HD

Lego BBC F1 Intro

MAR
07
2010
Posted in category Finished animations | 4735 views
Tags: animation  lego  bbc  f1  vehicle  car  rig  legof1 
 
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This is a version of the BBC F1 intro I made in Lego-like bricks.

Click here for a raw render version without additional effects for comparison.

The actual version can be seen on YouTube. You'll notice I've focussed on the first section of it, despite the second part containing car motion, which I have done a lot... View in HD

Toy car F1 project update

FEB
20
2010
Posted in category Work In progress | 4709 views
Tags: animation  car  rig  vehicle  bbc  lego  f1 
 
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Toy car updateA quick video to show progress on the project I'm currently working on, along with a model of the real life car I created a while back for comparison.

How to Build a Car Rig in 3ds Max

FEB
06
2010
Posted in category Featured work | 7508 views
Tags: car  rig  vehicle  animation  f1  project  ford  scripting  tutorial 
 
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Demo Video 2009

OCT
04
2009
Posted in category Finished animations | 5201 views
Tags: demo  2009  after effects  character  vehicle  car  rig  animation  special effects  montage 
 
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A compilation of some of the videos on the site.

Careless Kid

SEP
10
2009
Posted in category Finished animations | 3194 views
Tags: character  animation 
 
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A quick character animation in which the challenge was to demonstrate the word 'careless' in 10 seconds. The character is actually stationary, with the environment moving to easily create the motion blur on the background while retaining camera movement in the opposite direction. View in HD

Low poly character model

JUL
07
2009
Posted in category Animation | 401 views
Tags: animation 
 
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A quick video to show the monkey character model, and that it is low poly and scalable with some turbosmoothing. It also aims to show a grasp of face morph targets, and some quick ragdoll applied to the end of it to hopefully demonstrate the skinning and rigging of the mesh.

Angry Monkey

FEB
12
2009
Posted in category Finished animations | 3942 views
Tags: character  monkey  animation  rig  unwrap  model  environment 
 
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Here's one of the monkey animations I've been working on. See a small version of the video on the right, or use the links below for higher quality ones.

It's intended to go on the home page as an introduction, and hopefully demonstrates some character emotion and interaction, as well as some cinematic effects. View in HD

Work in progress update 2

JAN
07
2009
Posted in category Work In progress | 3844 views
Tags: character animation  special effects  work in progress 
 
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I really should give this animation a name so I can stop calling it work in progress...

Anyway, here's a draft render of the animation so far to check the lighting, textures and glass breakage effects.

The main thing left is the building explosion so the whole thing actually makes sense. And he needs a gun as well to shoot at the glass so the glass doesn't spontaneously explode as it does at the moment.

Work in progress update 1

JAN
06
2009
Posted in category Work In progress | 3827 views
Tags: character animation  special effects  work in progress 
 
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An update on what I'm working on (see previous related post here)

Still very much work in progress - textures, animation and obviously special effects still need working on, but you can see roughly how the animation should end up.

The idea is he's running from a bomb that he planted in order to kill something evil, although I've not yet decided what this evil thing is, or even if we'll...

Low poly character model

DEC
16
2008
Posted in category Featured work | 4631 views
Tags: technical  monkey  morph targets  character animation  work in progress 
 
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A quick video to show the monkey character model, and that it is low poly and scalable with some turbosmoothing.

It also aims to show a grasp of face morph targets, and some quick ragdoll applied to the end of it to hopefully demonstrate the skinning and rigging of the mesh.

Monkey...

NOV
18
2008
Posted in category Work In progress | 3270 views
Tags: monkey  morph targets  character animation 
 
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Here's what I'm working on at the moment, and it involves bringing this monkey back that I started to work on ages ago.

I'm experimenting with morph targets now to try and get some expression, and it's still very much work in progress...

Interactive Animation Cycles

OCT
17
2008
Posted in category Interactive features | 3753 views
Tags: interactive  animation  flash  character animation  cycles 
Choose the options below to make the character move. Select a main category (walk is selected initially), then pick a further option within that category to give him a variation on that cycle. This is the character and accompanying animations that were created for the DirectX project you can see below, and is intended to make it easier to see what I did rather than having to downloa...

DirectX

SEP
17
2008
Posted in category Featured work | 2933 views
Tags: directx  character animation 
directx.jpgBoth as part of an assignment, and then further pursued in my own time with other models, I looked at exporting animations and models into custom engines using .x format. Although perhaps not the best format to use, it did help in learning the export procedure and some tricks to get animations looping correctly, and the models to be a suitable polygon count.


You can download the results w...

The Lego Matrix

SEP
15
2008
Posted in category Finished animations | 3710 views
Tags: matrix  effects  special effects  character  animation  lego  environment 
 
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Just because I wish this game would be made.

Man vs Machine

SEP
14
2008
Posted in category Finished animations | 2914 views
Tags: machines  character  effects  animation  environment 
 
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Part of a university assignment that took place in character animation, sound design and games design modules.

UT3 City

JUL
18
2008
Posted in category Animation | 355 views
Tags: animation 
 
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This was a project on my postgraduate degree and is quite old now, but is still relevant to include here. The end result is a city that can be used as the base of a game or a mod, and has controllable events such as weather and time of day. These events can be set to automatic, so the weather and time of day change appropriately, or manually set to be permanently raining and at night, for example. More info
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