Animation & Rigging
THE CHRONICLES OF SKEETER
The Ballad of Skeeter
September 2023 - Personal Project
The Ballad of Skeeter was an independent project created over 48 hours. I was responsible for all concept art and rigging, along with animation for one shot. Skeeter was created out of a desire to create something with the pipeline technology available in the Visualization department at Texas A&M University, as well as an urge to make something a bit more "edgy" than our traditional projects.
Using scripts that I authored in Python 3, I was able to spend one full day completing Skeeter's entire rig, and the other full day animating my shot. I'm very proud of the Skeeter team for finishing the project strong and dedicating an entire weekend of free-time to something with no academic benefit.
Skeeter's Christmas Miracle
December 2023 - Personal Project
Skeeter's Christmas Miracle is a follow-up to The Ballad of Skeeter, taking place after Skeeter is smashed by his refrigerator. Originally intended to be finished in two days on a much smaller project scope, the scale of Christmas Miracle ballooned until we were dealing with a dozen new prop models and surfaces and three full simulations. I animated the entirety of this film alone, and was again responsible for all art and character rigging, along with some minor prop rigging. Fun fact, I am the voice of three out of four characters in this short: Skeeter himself, Santa Claus, and Skeeter's male next-door neighbor.
Skeeter Saves the Day
March 2024 - Personal Project
The highly-anticipated finale to the "Skeeter" trilogy. To be honest, the scope-creep of the "Skeeter" series was always part of the joke -- what started out as a simple two-camera gag short eventually evolved into a story with complex environments and multiple multi-limbed character -- and despite that it wound up being our mortal enemy on Skeeter Saves the Day. During production basically everyone on the team was super busy with "more-important" things to do, and what was supposed to take us two days wound up taking us three weeks. In the end though we are all happy with the result, and I hope you enjoy a (sorta?) happy ending for Skeeter.