My First 3D Animation Class!

Hi all!

So last semester, I took my very first 3D animation class! It was soooooooooooooooooooooooo fun. I loved that class and learn so much. My teacher was Chris Larsen and he was awesome. This class was all about teaching the animation basics like ball bounce, ball roll, pendulum, etc. and ending in a character walk. Taking this class opened a whole other world of animation to me that I definitely want to do a living :)

Here is my final reel from the class, enjoy:

My Best Friend

This is a project I did for a class (Ani115) at SJSU. The class was tasked to create our own individual short films, made entirely by us. We also needed to work entirely in the program, Adobe Flash. It was a very very very difficult task for me because not only was there a learning curve involved in learning the new medium but I also wanted to create something meaningful.

I used a very personal story of mine as a starting point for my short film story. Then from that I decided, with the help from my teacher Aden Scott and Jeff Jackson, to tell the story from the dog's perspective.

Here it is, be sure to turn on the sound ;)

This project marked a lot of firsts for me:
- Animating a Dog/quadruped
- Animating 2 characters in one shot
- Dialogue (even though it's just one word) lol
- Working in Flash
- creating character designs

Below is some of the character designs/studies I did before starting to animate. Because I was struggling animating in Flash, the designs became a looooot more simplified and rough. Animating a dog was very complex and didn't feel comfortable caricaturing it before understanding the body mechanics yet.

I definitely see a million ways to improve but overall I'm proud of all that I learned from this and how it turned out. I'm also incredibly thankful for all the help from all my friends/classmates and teachers for pushing me!