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senior film updated character designs

updated turnarounds for axel & lottie (still subject to change, and i'm still not sure whether i'll go lineless or not), + sketches for the big guy & the eel bus!

sorry for forgetting about patreon for months AAAAA im back at school now so updates will be more frequent, also ily u guys thanks for staying

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senior film test + lighting & compositing

mannn the 3d bg is still super rudimentary but this is what i'll be turning in for school haha

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senior film test clean

ooogggghhh i still have one more 5 second shot to do + lighting and compositing + i'll spice up the background more if i have time. deadline is may 6th let's fucking goooooooooO

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girlving to the right english cover

WELL hopefully this one's slightly less cringe than the last one but i still have a lot to learn! there's a minor mistake in the video but i really can't be bothered to rerender ldfjha. i'll make this public friday! 

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senior film test rough

some progress! the background is very much a work in progress, especially toward the end lol. i also have 1 more test shot near the beginning that i haven't started yet (im a bit behind schedule hahahHAHSDKGLJ).

also, if you'd like you or your character to cameo as one of those little background people in the last shot, please message me with a link to a reference image(s)! it's not an 10...

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senior film characters

i'll be focusing on an animation test for my senior film for the rest of the semester! tentative stuff, i like the semi-lineless style but i dunno if i'll have time for it.

 i think it might be fun to have some of you guys/your characters cameo as background characters, if you want! i won't be getting to the background characters until next school year though, i'll make a more detail...

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lipsync wip

rough wip for something for school! song is keep your head up by djo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy1V76nFkh4

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senior film animatic

almost pulled an all nighter for this! please let me know if anything about this is hard to follow!!

*updated slightly with some edits just now!

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senior film thumbnails

these are the blown up thumbnails for my thesis film, they're completely incomprehensible! if you can glean anything from this your brain is huge. let's see if i can make a readable animatic from this by monday

the (temporary) music is the instrumental of 泡沫金魚 (ephemeral goldfish) by rulu! https://www....

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animated vignette process

animatic, rough, color, comp (in AE)

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animated vignette

another (very limited) assignment, part of a scrapped idea for my thesis film

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ebony sky map part 9 finished + process

yay!

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ebony sky map part 9 color

just gotta do lighting & comp! & fix some messy coloring

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ebony sky map part 9 cleanup

*dies*

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ebony sky map part 9 rough

aaaghghjhj fluffy kitties! with super limited animation bc im dying and i just wanna get this done ah ha ha HA i'm gonna try to finish within the next couple of days, wish me luck <3

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thesis brainstorming 2

fun creature world but i have no idea what the story would be aaaa

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thesis brainstorming 1

i have to come up with ideas for my thesis film and im suffering.. this one involves a monster boy

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kitty wip!

just a little thing for class. yes i integrate cats into my assignments whenever possible

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craziest things animatic + character designs

storyboarding assignment! tbh i don't like how this turned out (i dislike the pacing & character design) but i'll probably upload it publicly later, after some compositing & camera tweaks (EDIT: that was a lie this is never seeing the light of day lol)

also, we had to turn in a pdf with a summary, character designs, & concept art with it: 2021-01-18 02:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post

bandaid mv wip

sam & oliver are childhood friends!

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sam & oliver turnarounds + mv layouts

working on another tiny jack stauber mv with the same characters from here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTagZmwxE4 i've added a tiny bit more detail to their designs- sam has a little boot now :D 

it's to this song ( ...

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keydragon

this is an assignment (moving panorama/parallax) for compositing/sfx class! i rushed for the deadline so it's a bit wonky (also there's a typo in the credits lol). i'll tweak the camera movements/audio before uploading publicly. this was done in clip studio/after effects, but i attached psds in case u wanna see all the layers!

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character animation assignments

this one really gets crappy at the end lol. other things i did for character animation class here (explosion, child walk cycle, horse walk cycle, partner dance): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NkkqMNB1OFqPqSlHmtuvyvMnDuzTCHSY?usp=sharing

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title sequence

a title sequence assignment for compositing/sfx class, done in after effects cc! placing all those stars took so. SO long. i think there are around 400 overall! 

"among the stars" isn't actually anything, i just made it up for this assignment. i couldn't think of names to use so i used the ones from that one meme View Post

wolf moon animation + .clip file

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ziFw_KXKHEePZEHwL6kFjA4yw1nepP_P?usp=sharing

another assignment for animation studio- for this one we had to do a 30 second animation with rotoscoped elements (i rotoscoped the hands and loosely rotoscoped the wolf heads). we ...

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water serpent animation

this was for a rotoscope anijam assignment for animation studio class, done with toon boom + after effects!

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hypnocat alt + .fla file

so sorry about my lack of posts lately! (get ready for an influx of school stuff that may never be posted publicly)

this was an assignment for animation studio class, we had to use adobe animate + after effects to make a looping gif. i posted the square version publicly, but my teacher wanted it to be widescreen for class, so i made another version. 

i drew the layers separated...

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the trolley problem

here's a version of one of my animation projects! i'll eventually post it publicly, after i revise a few things. 

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tma michael animation rough

spoilers for the magnus archives (episode 101: another twist)  

song: toes by glass animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ifSSg1HAo 

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legosi froggy chair + .blend & .stl files

there he is...he sits!! https://drive.google.com/open?id=11Icbs5I25uoElncpSrSKQJRmB2_xGJLi 

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