Acting Reference #55

Here's a nice clip from The Town that's a great example of changing emotions

The girl starts out very flirtatious - playing with her earring, smiling, pressing her lips together. She's never met this guy and she's putting on the usual "I'm interested" act
Then he starts talking about the 20 dollar bill. She starts a little confused, she's never heard this one before, but then she genuinely starts to get more interested. The smile she starts to use now is more genuine than the one she had before. This is a subtle change of emotion - she's went from I'm pretending to be interesting to I'm more genuinely interested.
Finally he mentions the oxy (drugs) and she realizes this person is not who she thought he was, she instantly starts to avoid eye contact, slouches down in her seat, you can feel her getting a little nervous/worried.

Before you have a change of emotion, its helpful to build up a different emotion first, basically its anticipation but with feelings. If you were to animate a character jumping, you would first anticipate them down. The same concept can apply to emotional changes, if you want to have a more drastic change, have the character go from two opposite emotions. (anticipations are usually in the opposite direction of the main movement). So if a character is going to be frightened, have them start more happy/calm. If they are going to laugh from a joke, maybe they start upset/mad. Creating contrast in your emotion change will make for a more interesting animation.


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Rio Comparison Reel

Sweet comparison reel by Jeff Gabor
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Voltron? #2

Update...started working on the guys approach to the counter

   

Voltron? #1

Here's another new animation I just started. Seems like I start alot and never finish em...hopefully I will this time. Just blocking right now
  

Dead Set #2

Update...more simplified
  

Dead Set: New Anim #1

Started this new little animation...blocking....we'll see if I finish it haha Seems like I start more than I ever finish
  

Acting Reference #54

Here's a great clip from Batman Begins (my favorite of them...yes I enjoyed it more than The Dark Knight) This is a good example of eye direction. As Liam Neeson starts to tell the story of his past his focus goes away from Christian Bale & goes more inward. You really get the feeling that he is thinking back on the past. What I also like about this sequence is that it starts with Bale not wanting to look at Neeson. Bale is having to confront his past and he doesn't want to, so he avoids eye contact. It's not until Neeson starts telling his own story & Bale learns how similar the two of them really are, that he looks up at him. You can really use eye direction to help tell the audience what a character is thinking & the relationship between characters.

SeaWorld San Diego's Turtle Reef

Here's a clip from the latest game I did animation for. Race For The Beach is a game that will be installed at SeaWorld San Diego. Four players each control a different turtle, traveling through the ocean, eating food and avoiding dangers. This is just a quick clip (the entire experience is around 5 minutes long) I did all the animation that make up the turtle movements, all the fish, crabs & sharks (the jellyfish were programmatically animated)

Older Animations #1

I thought I would start to post some older stuff on here...lots of it will be from games that weren't released.
Here's a little video with some animations I did using the Microsoft Avatar back in 2009. This was for a Zoo game we were working on. Most of these were done quickly to get something working in the game.

Brave Teaser Poster

Race For The Beach Open

The interactive exhibit we've been working on for Sea World is now open in San Diego, here's some pics.

Sculpting

I haven't sculpted since college and figured I would play around with it again. Hopefully I'll get better as time goes on haha

John Carter of Mars Concept Art

very excited for this movie. Also hear from director Andrew Stanton here

Acting Reference #53

Here's a neat little clip from Conspiracy Theory. I like it because of the little head tilt & shoulder raise that Mel Gibson does. I also like it because you can clearly see the breathe that he takes during the clip, make sure to think about and plan when your character is breathing in a shot.

Summer 2011 Showreel

The Old Republic Opening Cinematic

Race For The Beach Animation

Here's a video showing SeaWorld's new Turtle Reef exhibit in San Diego. The game that I worked on/did animation for, Race For The Beach, is shown at the 12sec mark

Animation Rigs Contest Winner

click the image to check it out