Short Animation Ideas

So I started working with Flash in order to beef up my 2D animation skills and I want to do some short animations on my own. I couldn't come up with anything earlier this week but today I've been able to get a couple of ideas going.

Numero Uno!
This one gets an automatic silly rating because it involves squirrels, haha. I just want to do a simple animation with two squirrels attempting to gather the last acorn left on a tree and the antics that ensue.

Dos!
While I was hanging out with Nate, Other Nate, Chuck, and Kyle last night they gave me an idea for an animation just by engaging in an average conversation. Well...not so average, but average for them. Let's just say it involves a man, his beard, and a bird. Reminding you of a Family Guy episode? Yeah, this will be fun. ;)

Well, that's it for now. I'm mostly posting this so I don't forget about them later. Hopefully I'll get some storyboards up eventually when I find the spare time to make 'em.

Oh, and here's my slightly improved animation of Lt. Dan Dancing:

Lt. Dan...dancing?

I was so happy to finally start animating with Lt. Dan! He has legs and feet! Maybe I'm getting a little too excited, but anywho here's the animation:

One thing I don't like is the way the foot rotates in right before he starts bouncing left and right. But I couldn't think of a better way to do it. So any input on that would be great! I'm also thinking about making him flip instead of just doing a regular jump.

Completed "Ball Story" Animation

Hey Everyone,

I just finished my first animation with the rigged ball for 3D Animation, this was incredibly fun to animate. Using the rig is a lot easier than having to re-size the entire object! And far less frustrating haha.

Anyways here it is, I think I can smooth out the animation a bit more but let me know what you think. Oh, and try to ignore the rigging around the ball, I'm not sure if there's a way to hide it or not and I didn't want to play with Maya's settings too much and mess everything up.

Lab Aiding and Animating!

So I'm lab aiding it up right now on this...lovely Friday and I was going to post my new animations from class, but I forgot how to export it as a QuickTime video >.< whoops! And now that I take another look at it, the animation could look a lot better anyways so I'll try to fix that up and post it soon.

Anywho, I'm working on some graphic design stuff for my 3D game programming class (for the menu screens and such) so I might post that if I think it looks ok haha, and it'll be up on my main website as well!

Alright I'm off to the world of Photoshop!! *whoooosh*

Bouncing Ball: Maya

Here's my first animation from 3D Animation Studio, just a simple bouncing ball.

Blender Projects

So since I'll be posting the work I'll be doing in Maya I thought I'd show some of my work in Blender from last term.

Jumping Pawn:



Walk Cycle:



Final Project:

Bobpants Spongesquare!

Ok I couldn't think of a real title for today's blog, so I made it Spongebob Squarepants' fake name for when he was being chased by that dude who was going to kick his butt...

Yeah, I'm a Spongebob fan...can you tell?

Anywho, I got into 3D Animation (yay!) and I'll be using this blog for it a lot this term, or so my predictions tell me. All of my classes are going pretty well so far, I'll just have a lot of homework over the weekends...

At least most of it will be drawing! :)

Dang I really wish I knew how to edit the layout of the blog better, oh well! I'll figure it out someday I'm sure.

And I realize this post was kinda pointless...but I guess it doesn't matter much to the possibly one other person who reads this O.o