Chris Magovern - Alice Madness Returns Animation Reel - HD

Possible SPOILERS! This is my animation reel from Alice: Madness Returns. Cut down from around 45 minutes of work, here are some of my animation clips from the game in chronological order. Enjoy!

Most of my animation shown here is key frame animation, however there are some motion captured animations which are as follows:
-First shot of monster lady(Pris). I modified the mocap data with cracking bones, wing animation and made more dynamic overall.
- I am the Carpenter. ;) I was the actor in the mocap suit, cleaned up the shots and implemented all Carpenter sequences. I didn't voice him though... if you know me, that's probably pretty obvious.
- The oysters dancing. Left this part in for context of the whole scene.
- Various background and inconsequential Alice animations such as idles when she is not the main focus.

So just to be clear, this is what I key frame animated:
- Eyepot introduction.
- All Hatter animations.
- Wooden Sharks.
- Sleeping Walrus.
- Black oil creature with doll arms/legs.
- All Executioner animations.
- Cameras

All clips were captured from my PS3 using a Hauppauge HD PVR.

Game code copyright 2011 Spicy Horse Games. All other materials copyright 2011 Electronic Arts.

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Gaming

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• chris magovern
• animation
• reel
• alice
• madness returns
• spicy horse
• video games
• key frame
• motion capture
• mocap

[DarkCSE]

Should put that there's potential spoilers if you haven't played :-p

[chrismagovern]

@DarkCSE Sorry man! I used to have a spoiler warning but then decided to leave it out since I didn't think anyone could formulate any sort of story from these clips... I don't have anything from the last two chapters of the game here either. But anyways, for your sake, I added a spoiler warning to the description. ;)

[MelisaBrookeAlvarez]

You did all of my favorite parts of this game!

[DarkCSE]

haha no worries. I was past all those scenes.

[TheGoldenCamera]

Looks amazing! great job!!!

[iSOBigD]

Very cool, well done. The characters and animations are definitely inventive. I don't get why the game itself has little things that were overlooked though like Alice's turning animation...it's just instant and doesn't match any other animations. Did they rush this game out the door?