My animation showreel, featuring scenes from mainly three short films (Squeaky Clean - MA Final Major, Petrified - BA Final Major, Dreamcatching - MA Group Project). For concept and character design you will have to watch it to the end. Music - Akilah by Turiya Mareya Latin Jazz Ensemble.
After a few brainstorming and brainwrecking sessions i came up with an idea for my final major project while trying to sleep. A mixture of my childhood and the amazing comic character Calvin (& Hobbes), I thought of animating a story of a boy that hates bathtime. He imagines that there is a huge octapus in his bathroom that is very determined to wash or eat him or both. After a lot of kicking and screaming the boy loses the fight and is plunged into the bath tub with his clothes still on. In real life, it was his mum that put him in the bath tub and the octapus is just a floating bath toy.
Some early sketches and character studies:
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| concept drawing |
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| sketch |
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| squarehead boy |
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| character pozes |
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| octobathus |
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| tentacles |
My first character from 2D to 3D! I really enjoyed researching into native american legends and visuals, and designing the character was quite fun.
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| character ideas |
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| character ideas2 |
Below is the final design for the character and the 3D model. He is my version of a wooden doll that protects children from nightmares using a dreamcatcher as a net.I would have liked to also add textures to his wrist and ankle cuffs but being made for a group project it was more important to spend time bringing him to life! Rig by Sarah Hale.
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| character sheet |
My BA final year major project was a short 2D animation, Petrified. With a team of two second year animators, an illustrator (for the painted backgrounds) and film students specialising in producing, editing and sound we worked hard for 8 months to realise an idea that i pitched during my second year - but which changed and was improved and developed by the team.
Below are some stills showing the main preproduction development:
my early storyboards,
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| early storyboards 1 |
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| early storyboards 2 |
character designs for the two main characters,
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| Girl character design |
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| Cat character design |
development of the style of the film.
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| basic room layout in XSI |
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| Room concept in ink |
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| Early production still |
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| Final film still |