Jump Down With Stumble

Back again, so just spent couple of days doing this jump. Shot a piece of reference footage for this of me jumping in the garden from one of the plinths. Will try and load that up as well. In the meantime here's the end result.



Weirdley noticed the character looks like Tal ben Haim or Dan Jackson!

New Lip Synch - Matthew Perry (redone + original version)

And here's another version, following the discussion Tim, Wes and I had about a more realistic and slightly less cartoony style. Working through what's basically one pose in the whole animation.



Well, I've worked on a new direction here, trying a close up piece of animation. I threw in the table here for a bit of prop interaction, which really helped me get used to IK / FK blending on the model after some weird experiences. Most of the poses I used in the other piece are in here, but have been refined more, and as Tim pointed out I've tried to distill the acting more. I found watching a few episodes of the IT Crowd on E4 really helped me out as Moss (richard Ayoade) is quite deliberate as a character actor in his poses too. Some of what are though were key poses are I've now realised are simply inbetweens, anyhow I hope you can see an improvement!



So here's the original piece of Lip Synch I did, with Matthew Perry from friends. Tried to work on the acting and movement again on this. Looking back on it though it loodks way to flat, and the poses are crap, so it goes t5o show plan your poses in your head.

Latest Reel

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

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.

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 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:-

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!