Animation Reel 2010

My current reel, featuring my work in traditional, stop-motion and CG. Enjoy.

Nall Reel 2009

Here's another old one. It's about two years old so I'd like to think that I've gotten better since then. :-P Still some good stuff, though.

Good Morning Vietnam Stop Motion Thing

This was done a while ago in a stop motion class taught by Will Vinton and Sean Burns. The lighting's pretty weak but I think you can make out what's going on...if you...y'know, look closely, squint, focus really hard...

Whatever. Enjoy!

Some CG Animation

I've been experimenting a bit with some CG. I know alot of these shots are pretty rough since I wasn't used to using the graph editor just yet. Still thought it'd be nice to show.

The first shot is from a final I made from a CG class. It was longer but I could only clean up so much of it for a reel. I have since lost the original file. DOH!

The rest of the shots are from an animated short, "Soup of the Day". As I am writing this, the short is currently in post production. If it gets finished, I'll link to the short and hopefully be able to update this reel.

Ball Bouncing Fun!

Little something I whipped up in Flash. Basically just an exercise in layout, timing and animating straight ahead.

Here's another one:




This one's a little simpler. Just playing with the squash and stretch.

Flour Sac Finished!

Flour Sac, inked and colored!

I tied this down straight ahead and then colored it. This was fun and I'd like to use this approach for future projects but there are a few things I clearly need to work on.

-My line work definitely needs to be refined. The rough edges are pretty distracting and it made the sac harder to color.

-Certain poses could use a bit more thought. I don't know how obvious it is in this but the sac's push off looked a little awkward when tying this down. I suppose I could fix this during the thumb-nailing process.

All in all, I had fun doing this and I'm going to push myself to work on these things at least once a week.

A little something I whipped up in Flash...

Trying to get more practice drawing with my Cintiq. Here's the animation roughs of a flour sac. I'll tie this down and color it later on. I want to get into the habit of doing this daily.

Zoot Manhatten Flash Animation

Zoot was a character I developed for a sculpting class. I used him again for this flash assignment.



This was my first attempt at animating with replacements. The key poses are a little awkward I'll admit and the hands and arms flail about a little too much but I like the the expressions he makes and the timing to the dialogue.
I also think some of the poses are pretty fun. Really I think it's that last one that gets me (where he drops down).
What do you all think? Should I hold on to ol' Zoot?

Some Flash Animation

Started out by loosely sketching the key poses on paper, scanning them in and importing them into Flash. After that I would trace them on another layer and add some breakdowns and then inbetweens. I added one more layer and then tied it all down (straight ahead).

It's a little too pose-to-pose but I liked working like this. I think I'll try this again with the line tool to keep the line quality consistent.

Beano takes the Cheese!

This was done as a final for a stop motion class taught by veteran animator Theresa Drilling. It was later shown at a festival at Cinema 21 which featured work from other AI students.

Tangled Web Scenes!

This was one of the first animated projects I worked on in a group environment. The short was about a spider trying to give up eating flies only to tap into his primal instincts when one lands on his web. One of the scenes is unfortunately missing but these are my roughs and clean-ups (most of the clean-ups were actually done by other very talented animators).