Senior Project - Style Guide

The character sheet needs color, and the color script isn't finished, but this is basically final. The project also needs a name.

Sophomore Project

Going backwards, here is some work I did on my sophomore animation project. It's my favorite part, but it's not especially exciting. Yes, it's just 10 frames. No, I'm not posting the whole thing.

This next one is a quick effect for the same film. It's shattering wood from a tree breaking over that guy's head. In the actual film, it's not too noticeable, but it does add a nice impact.

If I could change this one, I would have added more variance to the speed of the splinters, and make some of them spin a lot more. I like how some of the smaller ones bounce on impact, and the bigger ones wedge themselves into the ground.

Junior Project

This is my junior project, made in one semester.

If I could go back, the one thing I would do differently is avoid compromise. A professor told me I should trim my original concept significantly, so I did so. However, that resulted in half the work, and I finished it quickly because of that. It would have been possible to do it the way I wanted.

Originally I wanted something much more stylized, referencing the work of Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, and Keith Haring. I think the story was a bit more satisfying in this version, and I really liked having the world set in various panels.

Senior Project - More Color Studies

These are getting a bit better. They still need work.

Senior Project - Developing Buildings

Here is my process for developing the background buildings so far. This will be more refined as the designs become final. But I thought I'd share how I've been creating these buildings, perhaps mostly as a way to keep track of it myself.
Try to ignore perspecive issues; this was done quickly and freehand. This is just a basic setup.

This process could also work for a row of buildings, where the design of one building flows into the next.

Senior Project - Color Studies

I did 15 color studies for far for the background, and these are the better ones. None of them are giving me the mood I'm going for, though.

Strangely, or perhaps obviously, I like some of them better when there is a character within the frame. This is a somewhat more accurate representation of the final look (though without anything being final).

What I really need to work on with these now is leading the eye using tonal value.

Senior Project - Rough Environment Concepts