Sean Coleman Art

A somewhat more subdued piece of animation, I wanted to show a change of focus and emotion in this piece.

What i have so far is the blocking.

Chess Blocking

Latest peice of animation for the demo reel. My intent was concieve and portray a sense of weight in a 3D. Pretty happy with it! Comments and critiques are more than welcome!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWzCLjDZzgk]

Here is my latest animation. An entry for the 11 second club. Ill know how i did on the 5th so ill put up a post to let you know. 119 entries this month…yikes!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWiuomdhNXQ]

Here is the final version of the dialogue animation i have been working on. Comments and critiques are more than welcome!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66dIcI_7hE]

So here’s the commercial i was working on as production/animation assistant! It turned out great!

Clicky Me!

Here is an update of the blocking of the first character utilizing the great suggestions offered to me by Erik Westlund (Thank you!). We had a great discussion about how what is often lacking in animation is texture; The peaks and valleys of the movement within the animation. Its what makes the animation interesting. Its breaking up the rhythm so things arent all happening on the same beats-its varying the size of poses to add emphasis to various parts. It really should be the 13th principle of animation.

My original blocking was lacking some of this texture at the beginning and end. It had a good middle but the bookends were boring. In a good sandwhich everything tastes good, including the bread; my bread was boring, only the meat was interesting.
Hopefully this version remedies that a bit.

Comments and critiques are welcome!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tahlt058phc&rel=1]

Working on a new piece for my demo reel. My intention is to replace some of the older pieces over the next couple of months which no longer represent my abilities as an animator. So far this is just the bare bones blocking of poses. Any comments or critiques thus far?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_qEMh__auM]

So alot has been going on with the short film, i just havent updated in a while. First of all, some small story changes: Jack(purple guy) is now going to hook Clyde(green guy) into playing with his car keys rather than his pocketwatch. It just seemed like a more plausible reason to risk all of your winnings. Plus it gives Clyde a desire to play, setting him up for a perfect character flaw…greed. Next, ive decided to rework shot 35 where Jack shakes Clydes hand and looms over him. I want to break it up into multiple quick cuts to improve the pacing of the sequence. Also, a lot of shots have been lengthened to allow time for some solid acting. Alot of my shots worked in the animatic, but when it came time to animate, more time was needed to fit in the acting that was necessary to make these characters seem alive and to be thinking about what the’re doing.

Special thanks to Eric Stallard, Erik Westlund, Gav Gnatovich (spelling?) and Becky Wible-Searles who have really helped me this semester so far to push every shot to be better than i had in mind. Keep it up!

Any and all comments or critiques are extremely appreciated!

Scene 37 Animation
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B6nA10F5hI]

Here is the latest with scene 10. All of the Ruff animation is completed, except for some tweaking on some of the pool balls. I think the scene is working pretty well. The pacing feels right and when played with the music, its hilarious.
Im open to comments, critiques or suggestions though. Anything to make this shot better!

PS. im considering using this shot as the opener on my demo reel. Any thoughts?

Scene 10 – Ruff Animation
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rE906BAHro]

Well, its finally time to tackle this scene. I purposly put this scene off until i was more comfortable with the rig and the characters. Here is my work from the past 2 days. Only the blocking and ruff timing of key poses and breakdowns at this point but im likin the main action.

Any comments or critiques?

Scene 10 Blocking
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBow-Zq8Po]