Treasure Dogs

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!

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

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.

"The Bookworm" Thesis Character Models

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

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

3D Dynamics Experiments

This is a very short, loose collection of things done in Maya 3D Dynamics. The character model and animation in the first clothing shot were provided by The Spine and is courtesy of the NFBC. The basic truck, island and head model in the hair shot were obtained from TurboSquid.

"The Bookworm" Thesis Designs

These are some of the character/environment designs for my thesis short animation, working title "The Bookworm".

"Narwhal Love" 2D Short

This is a short that was hand drawn by me in Flash. It will receive more refinement and eventually color work, but I like the “sketchiness” of it. No audio.

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.

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.

Character Animation with Dialogue

These pieces represent some of my character work with lip sync/dialogue. They were created with the Generi model/rig by Andrew Silke.