I dabble in animation from time to time. Here are a few samples of things I've done in the past years.

Let's Go Nets

While working for a video post-production and graphic design studio in Manhattan called m2post&design, I made this short scoreboard graphic to display during levels of severe crowd apathy.

Turn Up The Heat

This clip, made for the New Jersey Devils scoreboard presentation, also serves as "wake up" for sleepy audiences.

I began learning 3-D animation in 1999 with my high school Robotics Team. Our task was to create a 30-second computer animation for the FIRST Robotics competition. I use 3D Studio Max, and ever since I have been learning the program on my own and have completed several short films. In each project, I try to focus on one particular aspect of animation: modeling; character movement; facial expressions; character development, etc. Following is a brief background of each of the projects I've undertaken.

Fall 2000: Ennui

This was my first major project (longer than one week--this project took me ~3 weeks) for a college course in intro animation at Dartmouth College. I had never completed a multi-shot film before, so this was my first attempt at telling a story through character animation. The absence of the cartoon-ish black outline in the final few shots is due to the expiration of the demo version of the cell-rendering plug-in that I used.

Winter 2001: Amianthus

This was my four-week-long final project for my advanced animaton course at Dartmouth. My main focus this time was character modeling and movement; I wanted to learn the proper techniques for detailed facial and body modeling and attaching the skin to a bone structure. I also faced a challenge with the fight scene; I wanted it to be realistic and to appear as though the characters were actually interacting and fighting instead of just dancing around one another.

Winter 2002: Untitled

This is an unfinished project I worked on for a quarter at Dartmouth. My main focus was to create an expressive character that could "act" and convey emotions through body language and facial expressions. I still am not sure where this character will go; I have future plans for him in another project.

Fall 2002: Talking Heads

I still haven't had as much time as I would like to work on animation. For my computer graphics course, I decided to give lip-syncing a shot, and created this "talking head" model. I chose several random sound clips (the sound clip in the video is from the TV cartoon "The Tick"), and animated the head to sync with the sound. I was fairly pleased with the results, but I'm still not sure where I'm going to go with this. I'm starting on another project that will hopefully be an actual short, instead of just a clip. It's been a while since I've had time for that...

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