As per my resume, I did attend the Rochester Institute of Technology for Film/Animation. I specialized in hand-drawn 2D animation, as my inspiration to pursue this path was Hayao Miyazaki, the founder of Studio Ghibli. I've always had a unique respect for hand-drawn animation, as it truly is a time-consuming, grueling, and very intimate art. Animators spend many, many hours over a light table drawing and redrawing and redrawing, hundreds to thousands of images to make a simple movement.
The way that the animation program was set up at RIT encouraged independent production. There were no "animation teams" as you'd normally see in an animation studio. Each student was required to produce and manage their project from start to finish. Of course, you could recruit others to assist in a variety of ways, but that did not detract from the large amount of animation, coloring, and composisting work the lead needed to complete. This is a terribly intense program as all videos needed to be produced in a short period of time almost single handedly.
Animation Projects
eLearning Motion Graphics Demo Reel
VARIOUS eLEARNING AND MOTION GRAPHICS ANIMATIONS FROM 2012-2013.
- Motion Graphics Advert for IIL's UPMM and PIE Matrix. Tools: After Effects.
- A small sampling from IIL's PMBasics Interactive On-Demand course. (total of 36 animations). Tools: Flash. Photoshop. After Effects.
- A small sampling from IIL's CAPM Interactive On-Demand Course. (total of 16 animations). Tools: Flash, After Effects.
- Motion Graphics technical illustration for an IIL presentation. Tools: After Effects.
2D Demo reel
A COMPILATION OF VARIOUS 2D ANIMATIONS COMPLETED FROM 2008-2012
- "Nacht" (2011): 20 week project. Paper. Photoshop. After Effects.
- "A Sheep's Tale" (2012): 30 week project. Paper. TVPaint. After Effects.
- Traditional paper animation test (2008)
- Dynamic Pose animation test (2011): Paper
3D Demo reel
GENERAL 3D MODELING AND ANIMATIONS COMPLETED FROM 2009-2011.
- Simple NURBS modeling with lighting and texture test.
- NURBS and Polygon room model with textures and simple lighting.
- Polygon typewriter.
- Character polygon model.
- Facial expression shift test.
- Push animation test.
- Monologue lip-sync test. (Audio from "Office Space.")
- Dialogue lip-sync test. (Audio from "Night at the Museum.")
Flash Demo reel
A DEMONSTRATION OF ADOBE FLASH UNDERSTANDING AND DIFFERENT ANIMATION TECHNIQUES.
- Demonstration of Nesting within Flash
- Demonstration of Bones
- "Mushroom Soup" - Sophomore 10 week project - Frame-by-Frame and Tweening
- "Dragon's Cold" - Freshman 5 Week project - Frame-by-Frame
- Lip Sync Exercise - Nested Animation
