Toon Boom Gif

Practicing in Toon Boom!

Lullaby

There was a wicked lightning/thunder storm tonight.

I always find them fascinating,

and tonight I received so much comfort and peace from it 

that I took a 2-hr nap.

Hello, Good-Bye.

If any of you have been wondering what my life has been like these days, this is how it's been:

For some reason, there are so many fruit flies in my apartment.

It has become my new hobby to greet them as I do anything and everything.

Did I Feel Your Eyes Today?

I wanted to learn/practice animating using Photoshop.

It's not much, but it was a big step forward for me. :)

Broski Pride

My brother is a humongous band dork and he recently became one of the 1st trumpeters! :)

I'm so proud of him so I made this little gif for him.

This was my first time making something like this, and I followed the instructions of amazing Anthony Holden.

Experimental Animation

This semester I had an awesome class called Experimental Animation. 

Here are the assignments I did:

Good Day

(Flash animation)

Hair Harlem Shake

(Stop Motion Animation)

Lemon Tree

(Final using After Effects)

Rig Test -- Jumping

This was for my 3D character animation class. Rigged character from here.
I really enjoy animating :)

Bouncing Ball

It's been way too long since I last posted. 

BYU animation program makes a short animated film every year, and this year's film is called Chasm. I have a desire to be part of the animating group, so I've been trying to do the assignments given over the summer break.

(These assignments are not related to the film.)

1. Bouncing Ball

2. Heavy vs. Light

3. Obstacle Course (and Squash & Stretch)

Although my results aren't that fancy, these were fantastic assignments that helped me learn a lot. Hopefully you can see the improvement from the first to last.

2D Stuff from Winter 2012 Semester

For my 2D animation class, we were given a character to use for the entire semester. Cynthia, our teacher, let us give him a name and a personality, and I chose mine to be named Ollie.

This was the third assignment, which was to make our character "move a rock." We had the liberty to choose what kind of rock it'll be (weight, size, etc.) and how the character will move it.

Ollie's from another planet, so he can move things with his mind!

(This was done using regular paper and a pencil.)

[March 2012]

For the final assignment we had to choose a sound clip (can you guess where mine's from?) and move the character according to it. 

(I used Flash for this one.)

[April 2012]

I love 2D animation. It has a lot of tedious work that comes with it, but it's so flexible and friendly (compared to 3D animation). I had fun doing these assignments :)

3D Stuff from Winter 2012 Semester

I haven't uploaded any of my 3D animation stuff that I worked on this past semester, so here are the four assignments I had in Intro to 3D Animation class. They're not good, but since when did I post/show stuff because I thought they're good? :)

Legoman from Fall 2011 semester

The following animation used the 3D Legoman I had made the previous semester.

The main object of this assignment was to learn to use key frames for animating in Maya.

[Jan 2012] 

This was the dynamics assignment. At first I wanted to do candle light, but after spending hours researching, I gave up and turned to liquid.

[Feb 2012]

Blendshapes assignment.

We had to choose a sound file to sync with the animation. Mine's from a song called 'Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros' by Flight of the Conchords. It was fun creating different mouth shapes for words and listening to this segment over and over again for hours was fun.

[Feb 2012]

Final project for the class. I designed, modeled, rigged, textured, animated and lighted the character. This also had to sync to a sound file. The song's from Amelie soundtrack.

[April 2012]

Although they're all very short, each assignment took me forEVER to complete. Needless to say, I learned a great deal each time the assignment was given. There were fun parts, but there were also a lot of frustration, anxiety, and stress involved. There are many mistakes and much room for improvement, but for the most part, I'm excited to learn more things about 3D animation in the future.