New Double Bounce & Photoshop for Bday Card

Right, here's an adjusted Double Bounce Walk, tweaked the graph editor and broke the splines to give Alfred a lighter feel, quick up, slow mid hold and down, like a ping pong ball, adjusted his pose to give it more balance with less lean back and more pelvis rotation, after advice from DMCA, Eleanor and Wes. Thanks for the help guys and glad you like the angry walk!



Double Bouce post El, DMCA and Wes Crit from Spangles and Vimeo.

And here's a bit of Photoshop work I did for a friends birthday card.

New walk cycles

Had a meeting last week with an industry insider who was kind enough to look over my reel. Like David Hamblin at Sony, Neil said I should work on some walks as this would be one of the most likely jobs to get started on if I get that first post, and to whack on five or six on my showreel.

I've tried to tone down my naturally cartoony style, but when you're using a rig like alfred it's quite hard. So anyhow here they are.

Angry Walk



Angry Walk Cycle from Spangles and Vimeo.

Sad Walk



Sad Walk from Spangles and Vimeo.

New Commission

Got a first mystery commission (ha ha - you known who you are), so sketched up some of my life drawings. Tried a slightly Neil Buchanan use of pastel paper but here's the two pieces.

Finished Final Project

Well here's my final project, not quite what i wanted but was as near as I could get in the timeframe we had to work. I'm pretty chuffed at how it's worked out rendered with the backgorund and has been a pretty steep learning curve too, with new tools in Maya, After Effects and Premiere.

Any comments/advice appreciated!






Final Project Compressed from Spangles on Vimeo

Showreel

Here's my show reel.

Seems so short an amount of time for a years worth of work at college but good to see it all together!!!






My Showreel from Spangles on Vimeo

A couple more pieces

Just done a few more bit of Artwork for my business card, including a colouring in of my Avatar.

Preview Film

Right here's the complete script and animatic for the film.

This was edited together using Adobe audition, and used at a critique at the National Gallery with music students from the Royal College of Music, to give a further idea of our projects.

In the end I decided not to use any music, as I felt I wanted a more natural feel to the animation, as if we were observing these characters thorugh a window than via film.






Halfway Monkey Animation For National Gallery Crit from Spangles on Vimeo

Most of the animation is a bit floaty, so I've decided to go back to using pose to pose to get that crispness of movement back.