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:

Design For animation, Guiness World Cup ad

We have began a new module, Design for animation, all about pre-production throughout animation. The brief is to create a 20 second Ident for a chosen sport for the Olympics 2012, held in London. I got football, which is a very strong subject for me so would be quite interesting for me to explore. Here is a video for the 2007 Rugby Guiness world cup ad. Very nice character design and style, and brilliant camera shots to catch the slick movement and the gameplay. It would be similar to what I would want for my Football Olympic Ident.

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.

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.

Final Fantasy XIV trailer

This is the "trailer" for the new upcoming Final Fantasy XIV game. I love playing games, especially final fantasy games. With every one they manage to create beautiful worlds and characters while keeping the narrative strong and the gameplay simple. But in my opinion the main thing that makes final fantasy stand out from other games is the CGI. It is in a complete league of its own, and the other games would need years to catch up. Anyway, enjoy the trailer...

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.