Animation Demo Reel

I graduated from Animation Mentor on March 26, 2010. This is my demo reel.

Animation Mentor was an amazing learning experience. Every week was a challenge to push myself harder. Not to mention that I had the honor of learning from these amazing mentors:

Wes Mandell - Blue Sky/ ILM
Jon Collins - Pixar Animation Studios
Morgan Kelly - Dreamworks Animation
Ray Chase - ReelFX Creative Studios
Mario Pochat - CIS VFX Group
Victor Navone - Pixar Animation Studios

I came into the program without any prior animation experience and they challenged me to really dig in and develop my skills. For anyone interested in character animation Animation Mentor is the way to go.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• animator
• animation mentor
• character animation
• 3d
• 3d animation
• cg
• cgi
• cartoon
• toon
• maya

[CGMeetUp]

nice work..

[dsmith4000]

@CGMeetUp Thanks for adding my reel to your favorites!

[joe5178]

which method is best pose to pose or straight a head

[dsmith4000]

@joe5178 It depends on the scene. If the character is pretty much locked down I like pose to pose. But for action heavy shots I use straight ahead. I used straight ahead on the lightsaber shot because I found it difficult to keep my inbetweens clean with pose to pose. Straight ahead requires a little more planning in the beginning stages but that's a good thing. I know some people though who work the opposite way. It really comes down to personal preference. Hope that helps!

[3danimator12]

Their fees is too much to a poor guy to learn animation....you can see my animation wok on my youtube animation channel...:)

[joe5178]

@dsmith4000

thanks for the help