Anya in 3D... finished!

"Anya" Animation Test from Rebecca Hayes on Vimeo.

Final piece for my 2nd year 3D Animation unit at uni. The brief was to design, develop, model, texture, rig and animate an original character in Maya. This is my first go at animating a character in 3D. If I had more time I would add some more personality to the hands. I'm still finding the animation process a bit awkward!

This semester is now officially over- time to take a nap!

Toy Trouble

Toy Trouble from Rebecca Hayes on Vimeo.

Here's my finished short! This was made for one of my animation units at university. The entire creation process from concept to completion spanned just under 3 months. For this short I tried to focus on backgrounds and compositing within After Effects, so the animation is quite limited. Animation created in Flash, backgrounds made in Photoshop, and everything composited in After Effects.

Almost there...

Another quick update. One more shot to animate and then I'll finally be finished with this short! Then on to finish 2D and 3D projects. Then... sleep.

Food court sketches

Been really busy with uni lately, so just a quick post!

More 'Toy Trouble'

A sample of the backgrounds I'm developing for a mini-project, "Toy Trouble". So far, 10/13 finished... I should probably get on to the animation :|

Anya- 3D model

Completed model for 3D class... now onto texturing (ack!).

Finished walk cycle!

Character Walk cycle from Rebecca Hayes on Vimeo.

Pencil, Photoshop and a bit of watercolour. I wanted to have the water splashing out of the bowl but didn't have time. I'll be posting more interesting stuff soon, I swear!

Oh and if you haven't already, check out Pencil Test Depot, a new blog dedicated to posting new and old/rare pencil tests! Such a great idea to have them all in one place!

Walk cycle- clean up

Pencil on paper. Assignment for my 2D animation class- the brief was to create an "unusual" walk cycle. Pretty happy with how this has turned out so far. Now to begin the colouring process...



And here's a preview of the little guy I made for a Stop Motion project:

Walk cycle progress...

So this is my first rough pencil test of the walk cycle I'm working on. My second time animating with pencil and paper. I've started with the first step, and duplicated it for now. It's quite jittery in places like the hair, coat and eyes, will need to fix on the second pass. At the moment I think the blink is a few frames too early, so I'll try and move that aswell.

I'll be adding the secondary actions of the hoodie and ponytail once I lock this down.




Any critical feedback is more than welcome, I need fresh eyes on this! I'm so tired! Ack! Bed!

xBec

Sketches

Just a few new ones-


My walk cycle is hitting 35 frames... Back to the lightbox!