Demo Reel Piece: Stargazer Lillies

Just finished animating and started rendering my Stargazer Lillies. This will go along with the Grunge scene.

I just caught this frame mid-render.

If you're wondering what program I'm using, it's called Autodesk Softimage.

There are 400 frames in this animation but I'm thinking of just cutting in the first 200... All 400 make a loopable animation that just plays over and over if you need/want it to.

This is a project I'm pretty proud of. It is one of my best pieces and I'm excited for it to be put into my demo reel.

The original stargazer animation had the petals overlapping and passing through each other.. plus it just moved too much... This new one will be just overall movement of the flowers in the wind.

I'm excited for it!

UPDATE:

UGH! Have to re-start the render... if you look at some of the petals, they're overlapping... AGAIN! Oi... oh well. Re-rendering now..

Destination: Animation

Animation is my passion.

A lot of people have been asking me how I ended up in this feild. Basically my answer is because I was destined to be here. I don't know whether you believe in destiny or not but I do and I believe that I was meant to end up in Animation.
I was speaking to my mother the other day and she said the same thing. That I was destined to be and succeed in animation. When explaining why she said: "You've been drawing since you could hold a pencil." I remember always wanting to be an artist. One of my first memories is me telling my mother I want to be an artist.

I have found my niche and it is right in the depths of animation production. I have wanted to be an animator since I was a little girl. Other kids wanted to be teachers, firemen, police officers, or engineers but I always wanted to be an Animator. I am thrilled to be studying animation. I work very hard to achieve my goals. I'm at the top of my class and I continue to work hard towards pursuing my life-long goal of being a great animator.

After completing my diploma in Music and Digital Media at St. Lawrence College, I found the animation program at Loyalist and decided that maybe it's where I was supposed to be this entire time. That's how I ended up here. As soon as I got into this Animation program and got into the software I knew that this is where I was always meant to be. I was born to be an Animator. This is my dream.

Grunge Scene - Renewed!

So I've been working on redoing my grunge scene created in school in first semester. I didn't really know anything about unwrapping UVs at the time and was terrible at texturing.

I obtained a summer job at a local studio called infiniteSpaces and they have taught me so much. Particularly about unwrapping UVs and texturing. I love my job.

I decided to revisit my grunge scene. Here is the final result:

My original project was a still that I had used photoshop on but I decided to challenge my compositing skills and compose it in 3D. I started my panning the camera so that anything I did had to be CG.

I'm very happy with the final product. If I had one more thing to add it would have been dust. I will probably add that at a later date.

Let me know if you'd like to see the previous versions.