The magician prt2

After having the pitch which I won by one vote... i decided to give up my pitch idea, simply because it was too complicated. Maybe another day when my CGI skills are more up to scratch... regardless I have some of the other concept art and storyboard.

The Magician

The Magician is an idea i will pitch next week, simply a magician performs a trick, and brings up a woman from the audience and then puts her into a "magic box" and then she suffers a quick and painless death...beautiful. Hopefully I can create this in Maya, thus the simplicity of the figure.
Here are some concept art for the magician himself:

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann!!!!!!

Been watching this most epic anime over the summer and it is absolutely amazing. Brilliant animation, love the characters and their enthusiastic personalities, and the story is just completely over the top!!!

Heres the opening to the anime...

Traditional bird flight

This is again for the action analysis module. we had to animate a bird taking off and then flying (in a cycle) and then finish off with a landing. It went quite well took some time to do but the results isn't too bad. to cut time i decided to do one wing only...

Open Brief Piece

This is the Open Brief piece that I made using traditional animation. I'm fairly proud of it, although due to the time restriction of 10 seconds it feels a bit rushed and not quite natural enough. I enjoyed making it, however it did take a little bit too long, and I really need to speed up my work rate, regardless I hope you'll enjoy it.

Under Camera Pieces

Here are some under camera excercises that we were asked to complete as part of our Round Robins. This particular excercise required us to work with different materials to create a 10 second clip. It was interesting to use these materials and also gave me a chance to learn the software and hardware.

This is the final 10 second piece made using cut out black paper on a white surface.


A test using sand on glass, again working under camera


A really short plasticine animation


This is a cut out test

Pyrates

A very slick 2d animation made by Fiquet Ben. Love the character designs and the camera movements.

Professor Layton: The Lost Future

This trailer is for Professor Layton: The Lost Future. This is the third instalment of the Professor Layton games released in UK, although I've only played the first one I loved it. The animation is undobtedly what I posted it up for, it's smooth, beautiful and the voice actors give the characters an extra depth. Quality all round.

Shooting Gun

I decided to create a quick line test, inspired by the zeotrope idea, of  a gun firing repeatedly. I wanted this animation to be more detailed and technically better then the Pacman piece I created earlier.

Zeotrope Excercise

This is a line test for a zeotrope excercise we were given to do during the first week of uni. So i decided to do Pacman... everybody loves pacman.