MURDER
13 min. (71 MB)
Premise: A scarecrow
overcomes his fear of crows to protect a farm and its creatures.
Notes: Seventeen students
from art, computer science, and other disciplines produced this film
as the culmination of a year long collaborative program.
My Contribution:
Layout/Design Lead
Scarecrow Modeling/Rigging
Character Animation
Audio Mixing
Animatics
Effects
EPIC
1 min. (22MB)
In
theaters: May 24, 2013
Premise: A teenage girl discovers an ongoing battle deep in the forest between the forces of good and evil.
Notes: Produced by Twentieth Century Fox, this was my fifth film with Blue Sky Studios as a senior character technical director.
My Contribution:
Character Rigging for a lead character
*copyright Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios
ICE AGE:
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
2 min. (70MB)
Premise: The gang is split apart by catastrophic seismic activity and face all odds to reunite.
Notes: Produced by Twentieth Century Fox, I was biped character lead and senior character technical director.
My Contribution:
Biped Character Lead
Rigged Granny and Rasmussen's bodies and lead the rigging of ten other characters
*copyright Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios
RIO
3 min. (40 MB)
Premise: Blu takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.
Notes: Produced by Twentieth Century Fox, this was my third film as a character technical director.
My Contribution:
Character Rigging for Linda and background humans.
*copyright Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios
ICE AGE:
DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS
2 min. (20 MB)
Premise: The gang is all back, but so are some unexpected guests.
Notes: Produced by Twentieth Century Fox, this was my second film as a character technical director.
My Contribution:
Character Rigging.
*copyright Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios
DR. SEUSS'
HORTON HEARS A WHO
3 min. (33 MB)
Premise: An elephant discovers another world on a speck on a clover and he has to get them to safety.
Notes: Produced by Twentieth Century Fox, this was my first film as a character technical director.
My Contribution:
Character and Prop Rigging
*copyright Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios
THE
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA:
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
1 min. (10 MB)
Premise: It's about a lion, a witch, and a wardrobe through which four siblings find the fantasy world of Narnia.
Notes: Produced by Walden Media and Walt Disney Studios, this was my first film as a visual effects artist.
My Contribution:
Technical Animation(hair, cloth and fur dynamics)
*copyright Walden Media and Walt Disney Studios
GARFIELD
A TAIL OF TWO KITTIES
2 min. (10 MB)
Premise: The world's
favorite American cat is back and this time he's going to London where he
meets his royal doppelganger, Prince.
Notes: Produced
by Twentieth Century Fox Studios, my second project at Rhythm + Hues Studios
in Los Angeles.
My Contribution:
Technical Animation(hair, cloth and fur dynamics)
Animated couch cushion deformations
Additional shape correction to compliment Garfield's sillhouette
*copyright Twentieth Century Fox
HAPPY
FEET
1 min. (10 MB)
Premise: Singing and dancing penguins, what more can you ask for?
Notes: Produced by Warner Bothers Studios, this is my first feature animated film.
My Contribution:
Technical Animation(feather and cloth dynamics as well as deformation
clean up)
*copyright Warner Brothers Studios
NIGHT
AT THE MUSEUM
0.5 min. (5 MB)
Premise: Being a security gaurd in the New York Natural History Museum just got a little harder. A magical force has brought all the animals and displays to life and it's up to Larry to maintain order.
Notes: Produced by Fox Studios, this film offered another opportunity to work with an all cg Lion, digital double of Owen Wilson, and a number of other exotic animals.
My Contribution:
Technical Animation(hair, cloth and fur dynamics).
*copyright Twentieth Century Fox
MURDER
STORYBOARD
7 min. (75 MB)
Premise: A scarecrow
overcomes his fear of crows to protect a farm and its creatures.
Notes: Created by myself
and Ginturn Tran, this storyboard/reel was our guide for creating the final
animation. I composed thumbnails of the shots
and Ginturn
rendered the final drawings.
My Contribution:
Established camera compositions for storyboards
Composed storyreel
Provided voiceover
MINI
COOPER TURNTABLE
30 sec. (2.4 MB)
Premise: A realistic
model of a Mini Cooper.
Notes: Using nurbs
patches in Maya, I created this realistic render of a mini cooper by
referencing photographs and a 1:18 diecast model.
My Contribution:
Modeling
Texturing
Rendering
BRENDAN
TURNTABLE
12 sec. (1 MB)
Premise: A caricature
of myself.
Notes: Made for character
animation, this stylized self portrait is complete with phonem blendshapes
and fully articulating joints.
My Contribution:
Character Design
Modeling
Texturing
Rigging
Blendshapes
Character Animation
Rendering
FRIDGE
TURNTABLE
15 sec. (1 MB)
Premise: A refrigerator.
Notes: Made to keep things cold.
My Contribution:
Design
Modeling
Texturing
Rigging
Lighting
Rendering
Requires
Quicktime
