Hippo Puppet test

Hippo Puppet Test from Cevin Thornbrugh on Vimeo.
Here is a test I did for mine and Colleens senior project. We just finished the Hippo puppet earlier today, so I stayed up real late and did a test animation to see if the rig I built to hold him works and to see if the armature I built for him works. And the answer is... for the most part.

Here is a pic of me holding the hippo puppet

Here is an unpainted failed cast, but this shows how the puppet comes out of the mold

And this is the hippo mold by its self

Pantomime

Pantomime from Cevin Thornbrugh on Vimeo.

This is a playblast of my Pantomime that I've been working on for a few weeks.

3D Pantomime

Sorry I haven't been posting lately, but I haven't really had a chance to until now. Below is a still from a 3D animation project. Through this project i have been learning how to make a 3D character an actor on the screen. This is tricky if you yourself aren't an actor because I literally have to keep track of every single part of his body for every single frame. Each part of his body has a control that can be translated in space or rotated, and some are even controlled by numbers typed into a window. So for every part of his body I have to keep track of every movement for every frame. It plays at 24 frames for every second and is 10 seconds long. This means that there are 240 frames with dozens of controls. To sum up, there's alot to keep track of, and hopefully I will have time to do another post soon. Sorry about the boring explanation.

Thornmold Meets PuddinLoaf

Here is my most recent comic for the school newspaper.

Callie Excursion

The other day I took Callie to play fetch down the road in a nearby field. Lately she has been taking a big interest in the tennis ball, so I try to encourage it as much as I can. Although the field that we went to isn't all that big, it's big enough that we never use even close to the whole field.... not with the way I throw the ball anyways. 

Frankie poses

I haven't posted alot lately, but thats partly cause I'm just so danged busy. Below is my last Drawergeeks Jr submission, the theme was Frankenstein. You can find the site here http://drawergeeksjr.blogspot.com/

Below is are recent poses for 3D animation, the one directly below was uncomfortable. I tried to make it real subtle, the yellow guy is slightly uncomfortable about the photo situation.
The one below is for scared. Feel free to click on any of these images for a bigger version.

Lately

The picture below is the most recent theme for Drawergeeks Jr, Where the Wild Things Are. I drew it with an ink brush and then scanned it in to add some texture.

This next picture is a comic for my schools news paper.
And the next three are poses done in 3D. These are assignments for my 3D animation class. The theme for the one directly below is love.
And the theme for the las two is confident... I enjoy lighting them a whole lot. I love to enclude cools and warms, and sometimes high key verses low key. I think the lighting in the two below effect the mood of the pose, even though the pose is exactly the same in both. The magic of Lighting.