This project was completed for Summer Industry Course, a 10-week course at Texas A&M in which industry professionals from Dreamworks Animation and Meta assisted in teaching and mentoring us students in our projects. On this particular assignment I was responsible for all storyboarding, character and prop rigging, fox animation, as well as some cleanup animation on the chickens and the final character design.

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My primary responsibility after storyboarding was complete was character rigging. Just like on Say "Cheese", the rig was built using a compilation of Python scripts; this save a lot of time, since I was essentially able to start rigging earlier than our final model was finished. Since our fox is just a head and an upper torso, I was able to hone in on the face and use as many bells and whistles as I needed to support the cartoon-y performance. I also rigged the chickens; because they're so simple, I opted to do this manually.

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Completing all of the animation took me around a month of continuous iteration. I'm incredibly pleased with how it all turned out, and it would have never been done without the incredible contribution from the team and the generous support from our mentors -- a special shout-out to Catherine Chooljian from Dreamworks and Jorge Cereijo-Perez from Meta.