Animated Icons

Two little avatars that I made yesterday :) I decided to give pixel art a try as I have never tried it and it looks like a lot of fun. I then decided that I also wanted to try some animation on Photoshop CS5 for the first time as well and this was the result!

I decided to go with a Portal theme because they are recognisable and fun to draw. I just sort of guessed my way through this, but it seems to have worked without too many issues so that's good I think.

I may do more if I think of other things to animate and pixelate. :)

That's all for now and thanks for reading! :)

And finally some actual animation!

It's only just occurred to me that I haven't actually put much animation up here at all, so I thought I would upload my latest completed project- a box push. The background is very simple as I was purely concentrating on the animation.

We were instructed to animate a push/ pull/ or weight lift of some sort, so I decided to go with the idea of this little dude pushing a massive box up a ramp. But alas, it's not worth the effort! Anyway, enjoy and leave a comment/ critique if you feel like it. :)

Technical stuff: Maya 2012, using the Buckid Rig.

Modelled Creature

Here is my Alien creature modelled from my concepts- now with it's own turn-around!
 I had almost finished texturing the model when the programme crashed and I lost the save file, and unfortunately I did not have the time to texture it before submitting it. So, instead I loaded a previous file and posed it instead. I would like to redo the textures again when I find some time, but for now this is what I've got.

What a Slacker!

I've been really slack with updating my blog recently and this is mostly due to the fact that my sister just turned 21! Wooh happy Birthday to her! SO, this meant that my relatives came up and I spent a whole lot of time with them, and I didn't really get a chance to update my blog; but no harm done! I'll try and get back into the Friday routine (or at least once a week) from now on.

OK! Onto the fun stuff! I have some animations which I have done recently. However, I'm having quite a lot of trouble putting them up here... I have put them onto my DeviantART account though without any trouble; found here and also here.

I'll post up some pictures of other things soon though.

Just Hansel- Short Film

I have just got around to uploading this- my final animation from last year. There are a lot of things I would change next time around, but it was a really great experience and I learned a lot of things on the way! Please excuse the excessive darkness, the video on my computer is no where near that dark- I presume it has something to do with tranferring it online that has made everything look like it has been set in a cave...
So, if I manage to fix I will re-upload it!