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My Class 2 Progress Reel - Animation Mentor

In some ways this might look like a step backwards, but believe me it’s not! Although I’ve been animating for a while, the Animation Mentor course has been wonderful in filling in the some of the foundation gaps in my skillset.

I want to make animation to blow audiences out of the water! Can’t want to get through Class 3 - Advanced Body Mechanics with my mentor Jalil Sadool (Weta).

Mentors so far:
Class 1 - Don Kim
Class 2 - Leigh Rens

I had a fire up my bum once upon a time to write and illustrate a children’s book.  It was going to be about an alien that Dexter (a kid) finds and carries with him everywhere in his backpack as he tries to help him make a new spaceship (using the household iron as a shell).

Anyway as this is on my ever expanding shelf of unfinished projects, I thought I might as well post the sketches I did for it so they can at least see the light of day.

Some life drawing I did a while ago.

My 2009 Showreel uploaded to Vimeo.  These are projects I’ve done over the last 3 years as a 3d Graphic Artist at Virtual Spectator, and also some personal projects.

Yes, I’m do freelance work. Check out the blurb under ’My Portfolio’ on the right for my skill list and email :-D

Ommon from Ticket to Ride’s (my student reel) original character design, for the record. I ended up having to give him knees due to technical difficulties in making him walk and run.

I finally uploaded Ticket to Ride to Vimeo, I’ve been meaning to do this for years!  Some of you will already have seen it on youTube.. but I wanted it on vimeo cos vimeo has better standards.

This is my student reel made at Media Design School in Auckland 2007, with a focus on character animation. The main character is Ommon - a vertically challenged alien.

Soundtrack is Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman.
Thanks to Doug Minkler for permission to use his artwork as the posters in the subway.

A 3D texturing reel I created in under 2 weeks in Maya. By keeping the concept simple, I was able to demonstrate the skill set I was trying to show in a short amount of time.