Personal Anim WIP

Just posting a quick animation i'm working on in my spare time! I wanted to try a more cartoony approach :)

So as I was posing the character I left the hands in IK mode. At first I was going to change that but I got quite into it and decided to leave it in IK to see how different it would be in spline mode etc. As long as the hands don't freeze up suddenly it should look ok :)
Gone_Mad!? - 01 Initial Poses from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Gone_Mad!? - 02 Initial Poses from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

The reason for adding in the arms circling was that I thought it might make it look a bit more crazy! I wanted him to feel real worked up.

Gone_Mad!? - 03 Blocking from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Gone_Mad!? - 04 Blocking from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

However here I've lessened the arm motions as I found out it was too distracting. I think the dialogue gives you enough to understand his frustration. I think this works better now.
Gone_Mad!? - 05 Blocking from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Flash Art

Was up late, feeling a bit artistic! Decided to have a go at creating some environmental art in flash! Went for a wintry aurora borealis sort of setting :) (All created in Flash CS4)

Quick Face Animation practice

I decided to have a play around with the Malcolm rigs face controllers just to get the animation juices flowing again. I wanted to try in-cooperate a more squashy feeling into the animation.

Here is the 1st pass. Not much going on here.

Here is the 2nd pass, really tried to get a squashy feeling in the eyes and head. 

I may add some more, maybe another head turn. As well as polish up on what I have, such as the jaw slowly drifting upward at the end. All in good practice though :)

(apologies for the size of the vids)

Aran Saunders - 2012 Show Reel from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Enjoy :)

Karl morpheus test

Trying to think of an animation test to do in my spare time, I got a few sound clips I want to try out, one of which is from the Ricky Gervais Show! :O I've avoided trying to animate something from that show because the voices are so recognizable and all I can picture is Karl's round head lol! So I'm not too sure about doing it yet.

However out of boredom I took the Morpheus rig and made a quick mock up morph of Karl :D

The hair isn't right I know, I would like to get that short fine hair look and have it going just over the back near the top, but I have zero modelling/texture skills so unless anyone wants to teach me or do it for me then it will have to stay like that lol.

Maybe temptation will get the better of me though and I might actually animate him!

11 Second Club RESULTS!

Woohoo! Results are in and I came 4th out of 189! Thus beating my last result of 25 out of 182!

Here are all the results
http://www.11secondclub.com/competitions/february12

And Here was my final submital! Enjoy!



Cheers to everyone who critiqued this for me, you all had some real ace pointers the guys at redwire, Leon, Peter, and Wei Xing!

Here's the link to the rigs I used:
Morphues rig - http://joshburton.com/projects/morpheus.asp
Malcolm rig - http://www.animschool.com/DownloadOffer.aspx

11 Second Club WIP 06 - Last day

OK so this is the last day to do work :O ... She is pretty much finished, just need to touch up on her hands/fingers and clean up her arcs a little bit.

He just needs VERY basic animation, i'm probably going to try do a cycle on him I don't want him to distract too much.

If I got time I'll animate her pony tail, it's good that i got the option to lose it and change her hair but i reeeaaally don't want to!

Here's last nights progress!



I won't post the final until after the competition has been voted for so please look out for my animation on the 11 second club and vote!