Right here's my latest reel then courtesy of Youtube! A bit of tweaking still to do on some of these pieces but it's my overall idea, gonna do one more piece before I go orund town next Week!
Reel Breakdown
1 Relationships - Acting piece, all animation by Nick Hanks using dialogue from Steve Carell and Max Rig from Highend 3D
2 Hummingbird - All animation and rigging by Nick Hanks
3 Monkey Magic - excerpt from film 'Soupcon', all animation, modelling, filming, compositing and scripting by Nick Hanks
4 Wolf Run - All animation by Nick Hanks - wolf rig by Drew Vaughan
5 Cheetah - Drawn Animation by Nick Hanks
6 Kids About - Excerpt from film 'Soupcon', all animation, modelling, filming, compositing and scripting by Nick Hanks
7 Ball Lift - All animation by Nick Hanks using Alfred Rig from Highend3D
8 Walks - All animation by Nick Hanks using Alfred Rig from Highend3D
9 Sugar - Lip Synch and animation by Nick Hanks using Alfred Rig from Highend3D
10 Fish - All animation and rigging by Nick Hanks
11 My Old Man - Excerpt from film 'Soupcon', all animation, modelling, filming, compositing and scripting by Nick Hanks
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
New Acting Piece - Steve Carell
Right folks, thanks for all the comments. Used a lot of weighting on the tangents in graph editor this time round. I've also decided to switch to Youtube as quite frankly so many people are having issues with Vimeo playback right now. Really tried to texture this (cheers Tim), so that the intro is slow, the blah blah's are harsh movement wise, and the what are you talking about is somewhere in between, trying to show changes in pace and power, and to Mariano for helping out with Lip Synch pointers et al.
Thursday, 15 November 2007
New Showreel 15th November 2007
Right,
New showreel taking on baord everyone's advice about shortening it. Couple more animation pieces I want to do before I start hawking my work around town again!
Showreel November 15th 2007 from Spangles on Vimeo.
New showreel taking on baord everyone's advice about shortening it. Couple more animation pieces I want to do before I start hawking my work around town again!
Showreel November 15th 2007 from Spangles on Vimeo.
Thursday, 1 November 2007
New project - Kingfisher / Hummingbird
Amendment 21st November
Right animated the kingfisher with a new rig system after speaking to the guys at LAS last week. Now the main control is between the wings at the top of the spine.
Again, going on Neil and David's recommendations I'm now going for a more realistic style of motion. It's been hard animating after a month off temping, and I've found that using the footage as reference rather than rotoscoping (as which happened for the second half of the film) has made me think about what's going on a lot more.
Anyhow here's my first attempt at moving the rig:-
Kingfisher from Spangles on Vimeo.
So I've rigged up this kingfisher to play around with, it could be hummingbird too, I guess, but I'm going to sit down through some motion footage to decide what to do with it.Anyhow here's the rig:-
Right animated the kingfisher with a new rig system after speaking to the guys at LAS last week. Now the main control is between the wings at the top of the spine.
Again, going on Neil and David's recommendations I'm now going for a more realistic style of motion. It's been hard animating after a month off temping, and I've found that using the footage as reference rather than rotoscoping (as which happened for the second half of the film) has made me think about what's going on a lot more.
Anyhow here's my first attempt at moving the rig:-
Kingfisher from Spangles on Vimeo.
So I've rigged up this kingfisher to play around with, it could be hummingbird too, I guess, but I'm going to sit down through some motion footage to decide what to do with it.Anyhow here's the rig:-
Showreel via Youtube Post
Hi folks, seeing as Flash was having a few issues with some peoples browsers I've added the show reel as a Youtube link.
Cheers,
Nick!
Cheers,
Nick!
Monday, 22 October 2007
Ball lift 3D view
Right here's a cool thing.
pau.cc on Vimeo has used one of my animations within a 3D video environment! I think this looks really smart, and a clever piece of kit. Anyhow take a look here, it's a bit like playing where's Wally, but with Alfred instead! Just use the mouse clicking on screen to move the camera around.
pau.cc 3D video link
http://pau.cc/panoramicas/anim/belle_anim.swf
pau.cc on Vimeo has used one of my animations within a 3D video environment! I think this looks really smart, and a clever piece of kit. Anyhow take a look here, it's a bit like playing where's Wally, but with Alfred instead! Just use the mouse clicking on screen to move the camera around.
pau.cc 3D video link
http://pau.cc/panoramicas/anim/belle_anim.swf
Friday, 12 October 2007
BBC Reference Footage Wolf Run
Hi, been working on a new wolf run trying to use some reference material from the BBC Motion Gallery, an amazing site that is FREE too for all you animators out there!
Latest wolf run, with more extension on hind legs. Struggling with the rig here as it deform, otherwise I'd like to work on the rear legs more. Credit to Drew Vaughan who built the rig!
Wolf Run Post Wes and Tim Crit from Spangles on Vimeo.
So here's the basic wolf run cycle, I think the footage is running slightly slower than real time as the cycle seems to be about 16 frames and also annoyingly you can't see the wolf's feet on the Beeb footage. Anyhow here's my effort with background:-
Wolf Run with Background from Spangles on Vimeo.
And the BBC reference footage:-
Wolf Run Idaho from BBC Motion Gallery from Spangles on Vimeo.
BBC Motion Gallery - www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/SearchDetails.aspx?searchText=wolf&type=Simple&itemId=f4102859-b9f5-41e0-a790-f105f2cfa9c9
Latest wolf run, with more extension on hind legs. Struggling with the rig here as it deform, otherwise I'd like to work on the rear legs more. Credit to Drew Vaughan who built the rig!
Wolf Run Post Wes and Tim Crit from Spangles on Vimeo.
So here's the basic wolf run cycle, I think the footage is running slightly slower than real time as the cycle seems to be about 16 frames and also annoyingly you can't see the wolf's feet on the Beeb footage. Anyhow here's my effort with background:-
Wolf Run with Background from Spangles on Vimeo.
And the BBC reference footage:-
Wolf Run Idaho from BBC Motion Gallery from Spangles on Vimeo.
BBC Motion Gallery - www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/SearchDetails.aspx?searchText=wolf&type=Simple&itemId=f4102859-b9f5-41e0-a790-f105f2cfa9c9
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