Gnome Animations

A fun animation about magic gnomes of the woods having a feast, it was made on Flash.


Some evil gnomes.


Troll


A Greedy Gnome!

Christmas Gnome Television Bumpers from Rune Spaans on Vimeo.

Just a Fun Little 2D Short Animation

Gnome test1 from Mitchell Vizensky on Vimeo.

The Hipster and The Gnomes_Scene #13 from Mitchell Vizensky on Vimeo.

At the start of this showreel there is an animation of an elf
I think its animated very well

Scott Armstrong - Animation Demo Reel 2009 from Scott Armstrong on Vimeo.

Showreel Designs

Here are some design ideas for my showreel.














On this design I would include 3D animation model poses that I'd create. As I thought that that would show off some of my animation skills.














I would add a crumpled up paper background (that I would create) and I would use old style writing. I also thought of an idea of adding a video on the menu page. My idea for the video would be my name being written in 2d and then it would change to 3D and spin around in circles. I like this idea as I think that it would show my 2D and 3D animation capabilities.

















This is another idea that I think would work well but I am not sure that DVD Studio Pro is capable of making this interface. My idea is that my animation choices can be seen on the left of the screen, when the the arrow scrolls over one of them it grows to a larger size than the rest. The movie is watched on the right side of my design.















I do not like this design I think that it does not have enough interesting features.















I quite like this design. I tried to draw film related equipment on the title choice page but I decided not to progress this any further.

Menu Animation Plans

I want to create a style of writing which reflected my inspiration for the idea (drawn from Mulan and other oriental influences)
Hence the curvey writing.
The second post shows my first draft storyboard plans for the animation. I would like the 3D writing to rotate as this would create more interest.

Animation Videos

The Improved Patches Animation

Animated Pirate Research

I feel that the pirates in these animations have similar characters to the one that I have been trying to create for my animation test using Patches.
On the link below are some more clips of Those Scurvy Rascals on the website of the creators.

Those Scurvy Rascals Clips

Pirate Animation Yesterday and Now

A couple of days ago I went in to talk to the Pirate team about how my animation was and Lewis noticed that I had not dicovered all of the blendShape options for Patches (the Pirate model).
So here are some changes that I have made to my animation mostly using the blendShape but not all.

Old:



And after the changes I made today:



There are still improvements that need to be made. For example at the end, when Patches is swinging his arms, I feel that his right arm goes in terrible positions especially the lower half. I am going to work on this next, but overall I feel that there has been a lot of progress.