People Are Talking!

"Princess of the Magical Tears" will be featured in an upcoming issue of 3D World Magazine!!!  I believe it will be the September issue (#159), but I will announce when it becomes available.

Also, there was nice mention of it in this review of the CalArts Producers' Show from the LAist!

My Final Film is Done!

My fourth year film is now online and posted below. If you would like to see more awesome CalArts films be sure to check out the CalArts Character Animation Student Films 2012 channel on Vimeo

Princess of the Magical Tears

a princess restores a man to life with her tears, and this gift is subsequently exploited.

Original Score by Hillary Thomas

The Princess - Megan Therese Rippey
The Prince and the Jester - Robert Duncan
The Guard - Michael Rianda

* the Morpheus Rig was used to create some of the background characters.

The Ugly Club

Finally an update for my very neglected blog. Here's my last test from Randy Haycock's awesome animation class last semester. I really learned a lot.

For now I'm hard at work on my animation for my final film, I'm not sure how much of it I will show before it is finished. Stay tuned.

(the dialogue is from The Upright Citizen's Brigade)

I Mean Business

Here's a new animation test, finally. I modeled and rigged* this character as well, and he will probably be appearing in my film next year, with some changes (a different costume, and without that hair).

I have also completely modeled and rigged* another character besides this one, so look forward to an animation test with her soon!

*using the Advanced Skeleton Auto-Rigger for much of it

Note to Self:

Don't edit your referenced character set without saving your reference edits, or your character's face will EXPLODE!

PS.  More animation coming SOON!

Moving in a New Direction

Here is some stuff showing off some of the flexibility of the practice character I have been working on this year. I plan on doing a fully CG film next year, but I won't be using this character, I just used him to learn modelling and rigging and work out all the problems I think I'll run into, and I've definitely found things that I like and things that I will do differently for my film characters.  I had the great fortune to be taught by some really smart people this year: Dan Platt for modelling, John Yoon for rigging, and Scott Peters for shading. 

Without giving too much away, there are some more advanced techniques that I did not use on this character that I have been testing and plan on implementing in my next characters.