More Fighting Tests

To differentiate from the previous tests I chose to have the character use a staff:    
Hiroshi Staff Test from Warren Goff on Vimeo.
Rig: Hiroshi. bambu-blog.blogspot.com/2011/08/dragon-weaver-update.html

With Each of these tests I tried to give the character a goal, in these examples I imagined the character defending their home from an intruder by showing their skills, or like in the punch test, I imagined it was a training test.

Fighting Tests Continued...

Continuing my tests I wanted to try some fighting moves without a weapon:    
Hiroshi Punch Test from Warren Goff on Vimeo.
Rig: Hiroshi. bambu-blog.blogspot.com/2011/08/dragon-weaver-update.html

Fighting Tests

Well its been over a year since I posted much, life took over a bit and the move to America and starting a new job took its toll. But I have been animating! I have been working on some stylized animations, trying to push weight, timing and poses: Firstly I want to point out that I took Ref/Inspiration from many areas like movies/anime, but these 2 shots really stand out for me:
https://vimeo.com/96192722
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWCIZ47HkB0

In these 2 examples the use of poses, timing and staging is awesome, aswell as the use of objects to create some amazing shapes in maya.

So with that in mind I started with a sword test:    
Hiroshi Sword Test from Warren Goff on Vimeo.
Rig: Hiroshi. bambu-blog.blogspot.com/2011/08/dragon-weaver-update.html

One of the areas I was exploring is smear frames, in this I only smeared the sword but I would like to go back and add smear poses to the character :)

New Shots!

What a busy few months! I was working over in Cambridge for Sony and after I finished working for them in March I had a few weeks off so just messed about and created these shots: (Still WIP)
Hulk Animation Test from Warren Goff on Vimeo.

Camera and Staging Test from Warren Goff on Vimeo.

Fighting Stuff

I am still trying to get a snappy style into the moves, I didn't really get there but you can see some progression from the ninja stuff I did before.
Combat tests and walk cycle from Warren Goff on Vimeo.

Stylized combat test from Warren Goff on Vimeo.

Creature Stuff

Taking a break from the fighting stuff I wanted to do a bunch of tests for learning creature animation:
WIP Creature Test No3 from Warren Goff on Vimeo.

WIP Quadruped test No 2 from Warren Goff on Vimeo.

Chase test WIP from Warren Goff on Vimeo.

Ninja Stuff

So last year I wanted to explore cinematography and all that involves aswell as try to do some action stuff, I roughed out a big shot then polished a section.  The aim was to have a snappy style but after years of realistic animation I struggled to push it. Something that I learnt todo later.
I polished one scene from my blocking:
Ninja Fight Part 1... from Warren Goff on Vimeo.

The Rough Blocking:
Ninja - Rough Blocking Test from Warren Goff on Vimeo.

Old Stuff

Just for fun way back in 2011:
Heist from Warren Goff on Vimeo.
Crysis 2 Stalker Run Test:
Stalker Run from Warren Goff on Vimeo.

Crysis2 Reel

Crysis2 Reel from Warren Goff on Vimeo.
This is a few years old now but it still means alot to me as it was my first title!

Double Take

As promised a Double Take using the Norman Rig in Maya. It took me most of Sunday afternoon to do this!

This is done with the Norman Rig:

I'm quite happy with it but think that the timing needs changing a little, the beats are to linear. you can almost tap the rhythm very evenly (which is bad) Live and learn I guess!

Next week I am going to make a cartoony walk cycle using the squirrely rig!

Animation Test

Hey so its been a while! Ive been working hard and enjoying the summer, I did some animation tests way back in Feb/March and totally forgot to upload them.
So here goes:

This is done with the Moom Rig and was my first test:

The rest of these are done with the Norman Rig:

Doing these gave me a crash course in Maya which im starting to like using more than Max!

Next up I want to do a Double take, a throwing example and a walk cycle, I also want to finish the 11secClub entry for April that I started so watch this space!

Cartoon Jump

Having learnt from my Bouncing Ball Posts I have looped this a few times before uploading ;-)

It took me a few weekends to get it this far but I would still like to work on the arms more, there's to much twinning going on!

Bouncing Balls

Ok so like I said I am going to start at the beginning...the bouncing ball!

This is my first attempt at this as I seemed to have skipped this stage when I started learning about animation a few years ago, anyway I made a few:

I still consider them WIP as I would like to change a few things but I learnt alot about mass when making these. I want to make a ball rig for future anims so I can rotate and scale the ball over time using separate controllers which should make it a little easier to work with.