Mortimer & Bracket

This was my senior thesis project at MCAD. It was finished gradually over the course of 16 months during my junior and senior years, before my graduation in May of 2007.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 3D
• student
• film
• CG
• animation
• short
• action
• adventure
• war
• comedy
• cartoon
• Mortimer
• Bracket
• dinosaur
• lizard
• epic
• MAKE
• buddy
• rescue
• friendship
• doppelgangers
• tanks
• cannons
• missiles
• bombs
• desert
• monsters
• senior
• project
• Andrew
• Chesworth
• boy
• vs

[dennisvolkerts]

nice animation!

how long have you worked on this?

did you use maya?

if so... where did you learn the facial expression rigs on the characters?

keep it up!

[achesworth]

@dennisvolkerts

Thanks! I made it over the course of a year and a half between late 2005 and early 2007. And I did use Maya 7.0. The facial work is done with a combination of joint skinning and blend shape morph targets.

Thanks for watching!

[martinboy121995]

is that hard to do

[achesworth]

Haha, well, yeah. It definitely wasn't easy. It took me quite a while to really get comfortable with the software, and learning animation takes a great deal of patience and dedication. But, I would say it's worth it if you love the craft.

[ChimeraProd]

Heyy are u working as an animator in the industry now?

[achesworth]

Yep! I work at a studio in Minneapolis called MAKE, doing both 2D and 3D work.

[raytraced]

awesome!

[Angelweed777]

Absolutely wunderful.....Ur a great artist an illustrater kewl stuff:).... angelweed

[1legomaster]

Andrew please take this into consideration. You should make this a series. If it was a series on youtube that would be amazing! Or once you really start it going try to make it a T.V. series!

[dimikandum9]

VERY GOOD ANIMATION!

[RCTMADNESS]

Thumbs up if he should work for Pixar

[MrCheesehead555]

wow just wow

[GameKid560]

this make a great ps game

[sukyunglee7]

I'm so glad that you are my teacher. This is just amazing! 

[Ojthemighty]

i like

[silverhathacker]

sorry but i have to say : you fucking awesome!!!!! wohooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooo