Welcome all to my Animation Portfolio page, where you'll find all you need to know about my successions and failures in the VFX degree. As mentioned on my home page you will not yet find Work in Progress for my current projects, instead you'll only find completed projects, for now.

Onto the fun!

So first up is my very first attempt at a 24 frame walk cycle, which is of course extremely basic and not very smooth, but is a walk nonetheless. This particular assessment got 61%, just short of a credit:

Second on the list was a full animation that had to go for a minimum of 1 minute, however I managed to succeed in a full 1:59 including credits. Hoo boy the amount I could say about this animation... like how much of a nuisance it was going through EACH AND EVERY FRAME for the lip syncing. Let's do some maths shall we? So let's say there's 25 frames rolling per SECOND, this animation runs for one minute fifty nine seconds, multiply 25 by 119, that's 2975 frames in the entire animation, now let's tone it down a bit... not every frame is different, I did hold some frames for a bit longer than I should have, but that's still a lot of frames to adjust. The entire thing was done in Photoshop save the fire on the chicken which of course is a Flash file. The video that I am giving you here is not the video that was submitted for the actual assessment, the one that I handed in was incomplete, yet I still managed to get 55% on it. So without further ado, here it is:

NOTE FOR READERS:
Do not, I repeat, do NOT, for your first animation do a dialogue driven animation, this is EXTREMELY difficult when hand drawing the whole thing and yes the whole thing was hand drawn. Again, lip syncing is NOT easy to do for your first animation.