"The Bookworm" Thesis Character Models

The character models for "The Bookworm". These are pretty much created directly from the character designs.

Starting Bookworm basic model, created in ZBrush. Bag and glasses are separate pieces, of course.

Caterpillar in-progress. ZBrush goodness.

Full starting Caterpillar basic model. Rigging those little caterpillar legs should be interesting.

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Selected and screened at The Roseville Animation Festival (2012) and the Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival (2012)! This is a short animation made by myself and two other students at DePaul University. We were going for a "paper cutout" look for the style, but it was actually made in Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects and edited in Premiere. Our team was so small, we all had a hand in pretty much everything at one point or another, but we gave ourselves a little credit for the main tasks. Hope you enjoy it!

More Stop-Motion and 2D Animation Tests

A grouping of my better miscellaneous non-CG animation work.

Stoopid Buddy Stop-motion Production Puppets

These are just some of the puppets that I have created for Stoopid Buddy Stoodios' various properties. In most cases, the costumes (if applicable) were made by the Costume Department and the sculpts were either pre-existing or made by Digital, unless noted otherwise.

A quick experiment in pixilation. Special thanks to my live shoot teammates/actors Joshua Tewell and Robert Greasham!

Lighting, Texture and Layout: Natural History

A progression through stages to a final museum piece. This work was done primarily in Autodesk Maya utilizing Mental Ray.

Stoopid Buddy Animations

This is a collection of the stop-motion animations I did while learning from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.

Robot Chicken CG Hallway

This is a quick breakdown of a shot from the Robot Chicken Season 9 finale episode that I worked on. I did all the comp work, created the CG hallway in Blender and the parody 2D drawings in Photoshop (available on my 2D Work page) as well. No audio on this.

Animation Parody Drawings for Robot Chicken CG Hallway

These are some custom animation parody drawings I did for a sketch in the Robot Chicken Season 9 finale. They are meant to be posters on the wall of a CG hallway I also created (viewable in my CG/3D Work portfolio page). Done completely in Photoshop.

"Grandpa" Stop Motion Short WIP

This is a short piece of raw video from "Grandpa" followed by some production shots. This project is currently in post.

"Grandpa" Stop-motion Short: Pre-production

This is some of the pre-production/development work I did on "Grandpa", my most recent short stop-motion work in progress.