CAA & MASK Project

Edwin Wainaina . Adore Woman .

This is a project that has been completed recently - on the last day of Feb 2016. It was a collaboration between CAA and Kenyan artists. Each of the alumni team has been designated with a piece of artwork created by a Kenyan student. The task was to animate it and create a 1:30 short.

Above it's the artwork of Edwin Wainaina and my task was to create an animation of his painting. It was an interesting experiences as we were encouraged to keep in touch with designated artists, ask for feedback and encorporate their ideas into the work.

Below it's an animatic and final animation for this project.
If you are interested in seeing more work in progress and other artists work go here - to CAA & MASK blog.

Animatic: 

Final Animation: 

New Designers: The Erlking ver.5 - FINAL

A final version of The Erlking. 

New Designers: The Erlking ver.4

New Designers: The Erlking ver.3

Animation Update: Come With Me

The next scene to be fixed was the Son listening to the Erlking's fake promises. The previous version was not clear in terms of the action and the Son's behaviour, but after discussing it and adding more fog animation, the boy gained a completely new animation.

Because that scene consists of both the Son and the Erlking, the amount of frames is split between the two, which explains why the end of this animation sequence is underdeveloped.

Further tweaking:

Comparison of the old and the new animation: 

Animation Update: Father, do you not hear? .03

Tweaking the animation of both the Erlking and the Son.

After getting feedback the Son's movement has been tweaked a bit further.

Comparison of the old animation and the new one; added fog and a texture preview playblast. 

Animation Update: Father, do you not hear?

Fixing the key poses of the old animation to make the Son's movement a bit more dynamic. 

Further tweaking of the Son's animation; not final yet. The Erlking's animation has not been changed so far. 

Animation: The Erlking's First Appearance

Matte painting of the background:

Figuring out the fog layers and fog movement:

Developing the fog animation; still long way to go.

Animation: Pretty Dress Scene

Slight adjustement of the hand: 

Adaptation B: The Shadow of Liminal - Final Presentation

Infographic: The ABC of Procrastination and Making Of

Narrative Final: The Cage

The Art of The Cage:

Final Crit Presentation:

Final Animation:

Narrative: Animation Tests and Animatic Playblasts

1. Walk Cycle

2. Playblasts of scene that I was in charge of animating: 

Summer Side Quest: Final Animation

The final version of the animation me and Ryan have been commissioned to work on.
A short film which explains the process of clearing and hopefully, makes it look less dangerous in the eyes of terrified students. 

I must say that working on this project was a very valuable adventure!

Toolkit: Animation - Final Presentation

Toolkit: Animation
Metamorphose, metamorphose using Dragon, bouncing ball
Pixilation
Flour sack
Follow through
Zoetrope
Quick sketches


Showreel:

Sketchbook:

Animations not included in the showreel:

1. Smell Abstraction 

2. Character Animation - Luca Mitchell

3. Bowling Ball

soon

4. Ping Pong Ball
soon

Toolkit Animation: Sketchbook

Toolkit Animation: Showreel

Animation showreel consisting of everything I've done so far. Unfortunately I cannot attend Wednsday Crit Day, that's why I am uploading it earlier than rest of the group:

  

After Effects Tutorials: Basics

After Effects:

1. Puppet Jaw

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2. Reflective Text

3. Motion Path - Text

4. Motion Path - Object

5. Lungs

6. Titles

And here, an interesting quote from the creativecow.net website: 

"I learned how to use AE by making promises to my clients I didn't know I could keep. It's easier to learn when you're getting paid" 
Bill O'Neil

Toolkit Animation: Zoetrope

Zoetrope exercise done with Shann:

Santa and presents!

Toolkit Animation: Follow Through

A follow through animation exercise.