Animation

These are various animations and videos I have created. The "Animated Shorts" graphic may be a little misleading for now, as that one is still in production.

Animated ShortsAnimation ClipsTime-Lapse Photography
Posted by Markham at 2:56am, 4/21/2013 (UTC)
Round Chicken, Square HoleFile Size: 409.54kb

Currently incomplete. I'll get more progress on it once finals are over.

Posted by Markham at 2:18am, 1/10/2013 (UTC)
Cheese Quest AnimaticRun Time: 1 minute, 18 seconds
File Size: 266.74kb

This was my final for a storyboarding class I took last semester. It would be fun making this a full animation, but it will be quite a while before I can get around to doing so.

Posted by Markham at 12:06am, 12/19/2012 (UTC)

This is my 2d Character Animation final. The dialogue is from last month's 11-Second Club.

Posted by Markham at 12:41am, 2/19/2012 (UTC)

My first project in Intro to 3D Animation. We were to take the Lego minifig that we modeled way back in Intro to 3D and do a keyframe animation in Maya.

Posted by Markham at 6:00am, 7/9/2011 (UTC)
SomethingRun Time: 6 seconds
File Size: 196.56kb

The final for the Animation class I took during the spring semester required us to animate a character acting through a short voice clip. This was my project, with an additional inbetween pass that I did since the end of the class.

The sound byte is from a segment of a clip provided at the 11-Second Club website.

Posted by Markham at 2:11am, 6/23/2011 (UTC)
A Viking's ShipRun Time: 7 seconds
File Size: 109.34kb

This is a scene from my latest solo animation project, titled "A Viking's Quest."

All effects are done in Adobe Flash. The fog effects are the easiest, as they comprise of a Movie Clip symbol of a shape tween and given alpha transparency and a thick blur. Layer a few of these on top of each other, and you have a blur effect similar to the one seen here.

Of course, using Movie Clip symbols has a long history of being difficult to convert to video. However, since Flash CS3 was released Quick Time export has been capable of rendering Movie Clip symbols as they would play in a normal Flash file. Unfortunately, the way it works causes complex scenes to render poorly, resulting in choppy scenes as the program drops frames to keep up with the recording process.

My current plan to work around this is to export a version through this method as is, so that I have an accurate audio track. The next step will be to render the movie at around 4 frames per second so that I have a video containing all frames in their proper position. Then it's just a matter of bringing them both into a video editing program and finishing things up there.