Thesis Screen Shots

So I have been working furiously on my thesis project and each shot keeps getting longer and longer than the neat and tidy animatic I created last spring. This is good, I think. The slow pacing is coming together and hopefully building tension rather than boredom. Hopefully it doesn't get so long that I can't finish it in time. Anyways, here are some screen shots.

There's a Hanger Inside of me...for Nachos!

Before I return to working on my thesis for the semester, I got one more quick animation in. I've been watching a lot of Beavis & Butthead lately while eating nachos which brought a quick animation test full circle.

Damn have I missed football

Lock-out drama aside, it's been a quiet off season for the NFL players since the Green Bay Packers won their 13th NFL title last February. After that amazing season, one of the most satisfying of any I may ever see (nicely chronicled at Little Earthquake), I am looking very much forward to seeing something other than double plays lace espn's plays-of-the-week. Go Pack, Go.

Superman's Best Friend

After a few summer vacations I figured it was time to get back to work. I decided to play around with Flash and do some 'hand drawn' animations. Here is Superman and his best friend.

Au Revoir!

I have spent a lot of time behind a desk at the NYU Department of French. Glad to have been a part of the team, but excited for more time to work on my stuff for a little while.

Another test

Here the latest test.  I am achieving the looped, painted texture effect, but I don't know how well it will jive with the angular design of the character - or how messy and noisy I want the texture to be.  I don't want this to be Dr Katz.  I keep going back to the character design and I like the angularity of it, perhaps the noise will be too distracting from the stillness of the piece?

The background is just a plate taken from Samurai Jack, which kind of what I want the background to look like, but there will be some secondary animation of the clouds and the grass blowing in the wind.

Motion test. This is only a test.

The puppet tool.  So obvious.  Now I just need to refine the texture and I should be able to manipulate the character models easily