Ringling PC Animations

Some animations I did while at Ringling's PreCollege. A lot of fun, I'll be posting a lot more work from the experience as time goes on.

Emotional Faces- LoopDeLoop Animation Entry

Here's my entry for the December/January LoopDeLoop Bi-Monthly Animation Challenge! This was really fun to do and was some nice animation practice. Spent the day working on it. Animation!

  Go check out all the really cool animations at: http://www.loopdeloop.org/

'Would You Turn The Corner?!' Acting Animation Blocking WIP

I've animated a fair amount this summer. Most of it being freelance for a new 2D Platform Game (that's coming to the Android Store, this year! Whoohoo!) But a couple of days ago I decided to start a longer acting piece to help beef up my demo reel for this National Portfolio Day coming up in a few months. I need lots of help on this piece so comments are appreciated. Leave a comment here or on my 11 Second Club thread here: http://www.11secondclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=26313

Sound from AMERICAN GRAFFITI

Animation Reel July 2014

I've spent the majority of July at MIAD Pre-College taking Advanced Figure Drawing and have been loving the facilities, teachers, and other students there. However, I'll post about my MIAD experience on a different day (its been a great one)-I've been doing mostly figure drawing but here's my updated demo reel with some new shots and a new line up for some meetings coming up.

 

Norman Run and Jump

'Is that your nose' Animation dialogue test

Here's an animation I did this morning- going to keep tweaking it and will hopefully put this in my new upcoming reel.

Cat Head Turn 2D

I've been drawing all of June and haven't done much animation. I spent a couple hours today working on this- which reminded me how much I love to animate!

Bunny Hop Rough Animation

A couple long days of not a lot of  'post-able' art- Here's a 20 min animation test I did to clear my brain

March 2014 Demo Reel

Brand new demo reel! Lots of new shots in here.

Lee W Animation Reel 2013

Here's my animation reel from 2013. I've compiled some of my favorites.

 

2014 will be a great one. Lots of things on the horizon coming up soon.

I also updated my portfolio, click here to view

Animation Reel 2013

Some of my best work from 2013. I've also included some of my drawings/sketches!

National Portfolio Day WEEKEND 2013!

Hello all!

This past weekend I attended National Portfolio in Milwaukee at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and in Chicago at School of Art Institute of Chicago. These past two days have been a blast! I showed my portfolio and demo reel to 8 schools in Milwaukee on October 19th and 7 schools in Chicago on October 20th. 15 critiques in 2 days!

Milwaukee- October 19
Ringling College of Art and Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Maine College of Art
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
School of Art Institute of Chicago
Otis College
Art Center College of Design
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Chicago- October 20
CalArts
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Bowling Green State University
CalArts (again)
University of Kansas
Columbus College of Art and Design
Ringling College of Art and Design (again)

I received TONS of great feedback that will totally change how I draw, with what medium, and the subject. I took plenty of notes and plan on typing them up and posting them at my work space.

Lots of schools recommended to sign up for a life drawing class and to attend a summer pre college program. I found a few weekly figure drawing classes not too far from my house and plan on attending one regularly. I also will be looking into a some pre college programs. Right now I'm doing more research on the summer program at MIAD and will be looking at SAIC to see what they offer.

Here's what I showed to the admissions representatives from each school.

I put my sketches in a nifty portfolio case:

(Click to enlarge)

 

 
 
 
 

Here is a video of me flipping through the portfolio case:



And here is my demo reel that I showed:




I still have a very long way to go but I'm real excited.

This entire experience was super inspiring and fun. This week is the end of the quarter so I have Thursday and Friday off. I will be drawing  A LOT in this next week working with the knowledge of the new critiques I received.

Thanks for reading

Lee

'Polar Bear: The Hunt' Nominated for Best Animation at AAHSFF!

Hello everyone! Just thought I'd update on the status of 'Polar Bear: The Hunt', it was recently submitted to the All American High School Film Festival and has been nominated for best animation!

Also, the short was awarded an award of merit at the ' Best Shorts' competition.

Only time will tell what will happen at the All-American High School Film Festival but I'll keep you updated as I submit to more festivals and hear back from them.

Thanks for reading, 

Lee

Ball-with-Hips Ballet Dance- BLOCKING

Another blocking. This is the Lt. Dan rig.

I need to pick up the pace with these animations. I have 3 shots currently in blocking. I need to start posting my drawings more often and get these 3 shots out of blocking and into polish (soon) !

Thanks for reading. I'll continue to update every few days

Fall Over AnimationWIP

Just a blocking, going to do more with this later.

Lee W Demo Reel August 2013

Finally finished up my Demo Reel for this summer. Spent the day rendering and compiling the animations, you can watch it below:




If you want to see where I was at animation-wise a year before Click here to view my 2012 Summer Reel
It shocked me when I watched it again, haha

Well now that this reel is done, I'll spend the next few days gathering my sketches from this summer, scanning them, and posting them up here for an updated portfolio.

Thanks for reading! If you have any comments, feel free to leave them in the comments below

Polar Bear Short Film Update May 2013

Hello everyone!

Sorry for the lack of posting in the past month. I've been keeping on top of sports and school. Even with the busy-ness I have been working a new short. It'll be 2D, in color, 1-2min long. I've been working on lots of exercises recently and I'm really excited to pull together this project as it well show case my art and animation up to this date. I'm really excited!

It will be done in the first weeks of June 2013.

Please click to see some of my POLAR BEAR ANIMATIONS on my YouTube page.

Have a great day!

Animation Demo Reel- March 2013

Here's my new updated demo reel! I'll be working on updating my portfolio this week as well.

If you have any advice or feedback, please leave a comment!

Thanks for reading!

New Animations: Diving and Fox Ball Jump

Hello!

Here's two new animations I've been working on throughout the week:


NOTES- Things to Add/Change
- Diving Animation
--- Still have to clean up and get rid of some of the in betweens at the peak of the arc of the jump, its a bit too smooth/slow. Will add some distorted frames as well is some places. May add a background and the character showing off a bit before he jumps. Hopefully, I'll also animate some type of splash effect after he jumps.

-Fox Ball Jump
--- Need to add and animate tail.

Pogo Jump Animation Progression

In a tweet by Chris Chua, animator at Pixar and CalArts grad (who is one of the animators I look up to) gave some great advice:

Chris Chua‏@ChrisChua007

"Animators, take time to plan, thumbnail and shoot video reference. You'll thank yourself later!"

So decided to do exactly this.

Reference:



Planning:


Rough Animation:



Cleaned Up


Through this process I learned the importance of planning, I've begun to use reference more and more but before usually never planned an animation out on paper before animating. This experience has 'convinced' me  to always plan out the poses and timing before actually animating and I plan on doing this always.

Thanks for reading!