cheers dude, yeah the rest is pretty crappy, I half feel like taking it down and just shoving the puppy up on it's own, but you've got to learn by your mistakes! :)
How's it going by the way, what you up to nowadays. :)
Were the 2d animations derived from real footage? Very nice though mate, as far as a show reel goes you may wanna make it all a bit more flowing (try incorporating a lot more editing) ie, after effects etc. It really does help to boost a lot of videos and would certainly help take a showreel to the next step.
Hi cheers for the feedback, for the 2d animation I did use video ref but it was all hand keyed (not rotoscoped) :)
Unfortunatley this is a really old showreel as regards to the other animations so all of these won't be going on my next showreel, I'm going to be using some new animations I've done proffesionally and some more recent personal animations. :)
I will be making a better job of editing together my next reel with some music, titles and credits but thats about it lol :)
Awesome! Thing is about showreels is usually they integrate a lot of real life footage (and that's where the editing comes in - and also the majority of the time what makes them look that one step better) thats what I meant :)
that is just lovely animation. the 2d stuff is fantastic. Youve really nailed the puppy, how its attention is fixed soley on the hole. I bet youve got/had a puppy!?
Cheers :) I did indeed! I based the animation on my golden retreiver "Danny" who died of cancer the year I made it, it was a second year uni project titled "emotional ties."
I did do a few more scenes of him growing up which were part storyboarded part animated, finishing with him limping along in his last days, but this was my favourite scene. 5 years on I do think I could animate it better now but this still makes me smile. :)
I love your style, and the 2D animations are so smooth and elegant looking. I really like the one who is running from something, so much expressions and movement, and the GD running looks good from side view. What's your DA username?
cheers I'm glad you like the 2d stuff! I'll send you a note with my username. I was thinking of redoing a great dane run and walk for my next showreel, looking back at it now there's alot I would change I don't think the hips move right and even from the side the feet seem to hit a wall when he kicks them back. cheers for your comments much appreciated. x
I did use some video reference but rotoscoped, no, if you pause the frames you'll be able to see the squash and stretch, I don't really like rotoscoping myself it tends to make animations look wooden, like a poor imitation of live footage. As for the background noise I did dope sheet the animation to an old home movie audio track. Also I would have thought some of the exaggerated poses would have made the fact that it wasn't rotoscoped obvious. :) Cheers for the comment.
haha cheers, reading back my other reply it comes off abit over defensive sorry about that I didn't mean for it to sound like that, I appreciate people taking the time to comment thanks again x
incredible and outstanding animations you have here! you 2d is really great it's hard to find nice smoth animations like yours around youtube. why are you not working for disney or pixar or something?! oh by the way do you have a deviantart account? i think i've seen that animation there before the pup one and the end. anyway great job i hope you have a brilliant future ahead of you!
haha thanks very much, yep I've got a deviantart account where I've popped the puppy up before :) As for Disney or Pixar I've still got a fair way to go before I'm at that standard, but I'm going to keep trying to improve myself and who knows where I might be in a few years time. But at the moment I'm having fun animating for video games :) Thanks for your comment! x
Great job on the dogs. You should put all of the dog animations (2d and 3d) at the start of your reel. They are MUCH better. An animation company would stop watching before ever seeing them as it is now. The one at the end is your best. Put it FIRST. Really nice.
Cheers, yeah all the 3d animation stuff on here looks very ropey to me now, even the great dane stuff since the hips are moving in ark's rather than figure 8s. But these were my very first attempts at animating in 3d, and it was all very self taught. I'm actually working for the Microsoft Game Studio, Rare, and they've been very good at giving me some proper training (I think they may have seen some potential in my 2d stuff and took pity on me) ....
.....So my next reel will have none of this 3d work in it, in a way I still like to look at this reel though to see how far I've come in such a short space of time. Thanks again for your comments though, I always appreciate a good critique. :)
The first two test were my first cracks at animating in 3d and hopefully I've got alot better since then, I'm working at Rare at the moment animating on the new Banjo Kazooie game and my learning curve has been quite steep over the past month and hopefully I'll be able to put some new stuff up soon. It definatley helps having some tuition and critisism rather than my self taught efforts!
Dude, you're 2D skills are very good. You should be able to transition to 3D pretty well. Animation is basically the same regardless the medium.
Try using more of the workflow you had on 2D, use more keys, 3D softwares are very bad inbetweeners. Think about the poses as they were drawings, forget the whole 3D environment, animate to the camera.
One thing I would definately do is to put your strongest tests on the beginning of the reel, regardless if it's 2D or CG.
cheers for the comments, yeah I did use some video reference but I didn't rotoscope as you can probably tell, that's my dad in the background laughing, the main character was my dog Danny as a puppy digging a golf ball out of a golf ball hole (or whatever you call it:) basically i dope sheeted the soundtrack and used the original footage of Danny as reference. so half and half pure ad-libbed inspiration and half technical reference. cheers though x
Fantastic all around. I'm not big on rotoscoping myself. I huge on reference but when my projects are done, they look like they were rotoscoped but it's not. Best example (besides yours) check out my animation on a ninja. I have the animation with the footage.
Also is you animated dog based off the real one? He's so cool looking.
cheers for the comment it's good to get some critical feedback, I have just started to do 3d in the last year and I know there's alot wrong with it. I'm basically training in 3d because there's no work for me in the traditional stuff. Luckily I've just been offered an art internship at Rare for their art assets team. I'll be doing concept art and animation so hopefully my stuff should improve in leaps and bounds and get to the level of my 2d animation, so watch this space ;)
the opening 2 animations feel a bit stiff, your other work is much better, should put that in the beginning instead, the traditional animation is also wonderful.
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sarojbaniya 3 months ago
Like the puppy. Very nice Sarah
wmaher2 2 years ago
cheers dude, yeah the rest is pretty crappy, I half feel like taking it down and just shoving the puppy up on it's own, but you've got to learn by your mistakes! :)
How's it going by the way, what you up to nowadays. :)
animatorswearbras 2 years ago
Great demo real... but could you please tell me what film you got the first scene from, "I made you short?"
... It sounds familiar... and it's driving me insane.
Jesterclown17 2 years ago
cheers, it's from Birdcage :) got it off daily wavs or 11 second club I think.
animatorswearbras 2 years ago
Eee! I love the puppy :D The anthro run thingy was quite good to :3
COLLARID 2 years ago
hehe cheers :)
animatorswearbras 2 years ago
Were the 2d animations derived from real footage? Very nice though mate, as far as a show reel goes you may wanna make it all a bit more flowing (try incorporating a lot more editing) ie, after effects etc. It really does help to boost a lot of videos and would certainly help take a showreel to the next step.
TheSockPuppetShow 2 years ago
Hi cheers for the feedback, for the 2d animation I did use video ref but it was all hand keyed (not rotoscoped) :)
Unfortunatley this is a really old showreel as regards to the other animations so all of these won't be going on my next showreel, I'm going to be using some new animations I've done proffesionally and some more recent personal animations. :)
I will be making a better job of editing together my next reel with some music, titles and credits but thats about it lol :)
thanks
animatorswearbras 2 years ago
Awesome! Thing is about showreels is usually they integrate a lot of real life footage (and that's where the editing comes in - and also the majority of the time what makes them look that one step better) thats what I meant :)
TheSockPuppetShow 2 years ago
I know what rotoscopes are but what does hand keyed mean. The 2d looks like a lot of hard work I wish I had the patience to draw animation.
MicrosoftsourceCode 2 years ago
that is just lovely animation. the 2d stuff is fantastic. Youve really nailed the puppy, how its attention is fixed soley on the hole. I bet youve got/had a puppy!?
udapud 2 years ago
Cheers :) I did indeed! I based the animation on my golden retreiver "Danny" who died of cancer the year I made it, it was a second year uni project titled "emotional ties."
I did do a few more scenes of him growing up which were part storyboarded part animated, finishing with him limping along in his last days, but this was my favourite scene. 5 years on I do think I could animate it better now but this still makes me smile. :)
animatorswearbras 2 years ago
I love your style, and the 2D animations are so smooth and elegant looking. I really like the one who is running from something, so much expressions and movement, and the GD running looks good from side view. What's your DA username?
Nulde 2 years ago
cheers I'm glad you like the 2d stuff! I'll send you a note with my username. I was thinking of redoing a great dane run and walk for my next showreel, looking back at it now there's alot I would change I don't think the hips move right and even from the side the feet seem to hit a wall when he kicks them back. cheers for your comments much appreciated. x
animatorswearbras 2 years ago
is the stuff with the pupy rotoscoped? theres background noise in it.
YOJIMBO205 3 years ago
I did use some video reference but rotoscoped, no, if you pause the frames you'll be able to see the squash and stretch, I don't really like rotoscoping myself it tends to make animations look wooden, like a poor imitation of live footage. As for the background noise I did dope sheet the animation to an old home movie audio track. Also I would have thought some of the exaggerated poses would have made the fact that it wasn't rotoscoped obvious. :) Cheers for the comment.
animatorswearbras 2 years ago
Thats cool, tis great that it isnt rotoscoped. nice job.
YOJIMBO205 2 years ago
haha cheers, reading back my other reply it comes off abit over defensive sorry about that I didn't mean for it to sound like that, I appreciate people taking the time to comment thanks again x
animatorswearbras 2 years ago
incredible and outstanding animations you have here! you 2d is really great it's hard to find nice smoth animations like yours around youtube. why are you not working for disney or pixar or something?! oh by the way do you have a deviantart account? i think i've seen that animation there before the pup one and the end. anyway great job i hope you have a brilliant future ahead of you!
Saphirawolf 3 years ago
haha thanks very much, yep I've got a deviantart account where I've popped the puppy up before :) As for Disney or Pixar I've still got a fair way to go before I'm at that standard, but I'm going to keep trying to improve myself and who knows where I might be in a few years time. But at the moment I'm having fun animating for video games :) Thanks for your comment! x
animatorswearbras 3 years ago
Great job on the dogs. You should put all of the dog animations (2d and 3d) at the start of your reel. They are MUCH better. An animation company would stop watching before ever seeing them as it is now. The one at the end is your best. Put it FIRST. Really nice.
bre30127 3 years ago
Cheers, yeah all the 3d animation stuff on here looks very ropey to me now, even the great dane stuff since the hips are moving in ark's rather than figure 8s. But these were my very first attempts at animating in 3d, and it was all very self taught. I'm actually working for the Microsoft Game Studio, Rare, and they've been very good at giving me some proper training (I think they may have seen some potential in my 2d stuff and took pity on me) ....
animatorswearbras 3 years ago
.....So my next reel will have none of this 3d work in it, in a way I still like to look at this reel though to see how far I've come in such a short space of time. Thanks again for your comments though, I always appreciate a good critique. :)
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animatorswearbras 3 years ago
Wow this is so good! And the puppy at the end... perfect!
tallihiiri 3 years ago
Thankyou very much :)
animatorswearbras 3 years ago
Last one amazed me, real good job! =D
legionxxxxxxxxxx 3 years ago
Cheers Legion! ;)
animatorswearbras 3 years ago
Great job! I especially love the puppy at the end. So cute! Nice deomstration of a very loveable personality! Wonderful reel all around!
CatRBailey 3 years ago
Cheers Cat! I just checked out your very cute bouncey pup animation, I loved the design, good job! ;)
animatorswearbras 3 years ago
I would probably get rid of the first two acting pieces, they're not NEARLY as strong as the other tests. They could hurt you a lot more then help.
It seems you're animation skills are pretty good, you'll be rocking 3D animation in no time.
Keep it up!
Cheers
fernunhazz 3 years ago
Hi Fernunhazz, cheers for the comments!
The first two test were my first cracks at animating in 3d and hopefully I've got alot better since then, I'm working at Rare at the moment animating on the new Banjo Kazooie game and my learning curve has been quite steep over the past month and hopefully I'll be able to put some new stuff up soon. It definatley helps having some tuition and critisism rather than my self taught efforts!
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animatorswearbras 3 years ago
..... Thankyou for your comments on my 2d work I did that stuff when I was 20 (5 years ago) I would like to have a crack at 2d again in the future.
Anyhow thanks again and by the way your stuff looks great, animation mentor seems like a great course.
Sarah x
animatorswearbras 3 years ago
Hey man!
Dude, you're 2D skills are very good. You should be able to transition to 3D pretty well. Animation is basically the same regardless the medium.
Try using more of the workflow you had on 2D, use more keys, 3D softwares are very bad inbetweeners. Think about the poses as they were drawings, forget the whole 3D environment, animate to the camera.
One thing I would definately do is to put your strongest tests on the beginning of the reel, regardless if it's 2D or CG.
fernunhazz 3 years ago
I would probably get rid of the first two acting pieces, they're not NEARLY as strong as the other tests. They could hurt you a lot more then help.
It seems you're animation skills are pretty good, you'll be rocking 3D animation in no time.
Keep it up!
Cheers
fernunhazz 3 years ago
Forgot to ask, On your 2D dog animation. Did you use any reference or is that all your idea? (Hearing the sound in the background)
mysticanimation22 3 years ago
cheers for the comments, yeah I did use some video reference but I didn't rotoscope as you can probably tell, that's my dad in the background laughing, the main character was my dog Danny as a puppy digging a golf ball out of a golf ball hole (or whatever you call it:) basically i dope sheeted the soundtrack and used the original footage of Danny as reference. so half and half pure ad-libbed inspiration and half technical reference. cheers though x
animatorswearbras 3 years ago
Fantastic all around. I'm not big on rotoscoping myself. I huge on reference but when my projects are done, they look like they were rotoscoped but it's not. Best example (besides yours) check out my animation on a ninja. I have the animation with the footage.
Also is you animated dog based off the real one? He's so cool looking.
mysticanimation22 3 years ago
Man I love your 2D work! It is very smooth and it shows all the principles. Very nice work!
mysticanimation22 3 years ago
your 2D work is brilliant... in fact, I`m amazed how good it is compared to your 3d stuff.. its beautifully done.
Have you been 2D for a while now and are moving to 3D?
CameronFielding 3 years ago
cheers for the comment it's good to get some critical feedback, I have just started to do 3d in the last year and I know there's alot wrong with it. I'm basically training in 3d because there's no work for me in the traditional stuff. Luckily I've just been offered an art internship at Rare for their art assets team. I'll be doing concept art and animation so hopefully my stuff should improve in leaps and bounds and get to the level of my 2d animation, so watch this space ;)
animatorswearbras 3 years ago
I really liked your traditional animation. Very nicely done. :)
EEKentertainment 3 years ago
the opening 2 animations feel a bit stiff, your other work is much better, should put that in the beginning instead, the traditional animation is also wonderful.
martinez3d 3 years ago