GENERALIST REEL

This is a shot I animated for my thesis film. For this shot, making the character feel grounded in reality while also making the shot feel dynamic was challenging. I shot reference where I could and looked at online resources to make her movements believable.

This is a custom rig I built for the Ninki Nanka. This rig was challenging as I had to troubleshoot various aspects of the rig to ensure that it could move in all the ways that we needed. A few of the attributes that I added in the rig are muscle physics to ensure that the dragon looks grounded in reality with flesh that reacts to its movements and sine-wave deformers on its whiskers, neck, tail and fins to enable animators to achieve the snake-like movements without having to hand animate an FK chain.

Animated a shot for the 11 Second Club challenge and placed in the top 3. For this shot, I tried to further tell the story with the framing of the shot and conveyed emotion and the character's intoxicated sstate through gestures and expressions. I also had a lot of fun experimenting with lighting and FX for the wine!

Modelled a character in Maya and ZBrush and textured using Substance Painter. Experimented with shaders and painted normals for a stylized look.

Animated a short face rig test for the Ninki Nanka to ensure that the rig was flexible and expressive.

Directed and animated a fight sequence with dynamic cameras. Studied body mechanics extensively and combined my observations with reference.

Ribbon Tool: Created a tool to make ribbons from an edge selection. Added a UI to make it user friendly for other artists. This tool significantly improved the workflow efficiency and saved a considerable amount of time on the project.

Auto Limb Tool: Wrote a tool using python to create a quadruped limb setup. Incorporated an IK-FK switch, stretch and bendy limbs using ribbons and muscle dynamics. This tool was instrumental to efficiently rig the complex dragon on our film and was also reusable for other quadrupeds.

Animated an acting shot for my thesis film. Focused on subtext and shot reference to convey the characters thought process beyond the dialogue.