2015 Animation Demo Reel
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2015
- My final student demoreel at Full Sail University. I am very happy how it turned out! I really tried to get every aspect of animation from a cartoony facial animation to a subtle serious acting and more realistic animations. I learned a lot from each asset and hope to keep advancing my skills. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Thanks for watching! Comments and critiques are appreciated!
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I particularly like the rock-breaking guy. Nice work!
This is a really nice animation reel. The best part I liked about your reel is the appeal, that you have successfully implemented in your shots.
I am just starting portfolio 4 at Full sail. I have to review other demo reels and stumble across yours. Looks really cool and clean. I can't wait to get to this level of work.
I can see a very bright future ahead of you :)
AGREED KUNGFU DEMO'S RULE"
DEAR ANDREW !!! SO AWESOMELY AMAZING!!! I HOPE YOU GOT THE GIG!!!!
From one fellow Full Sail Computer Animation student to another - bro, this is phenomenal! Great job! 🙌
*BOOM* - THAT'S Impressive, my friend - THAT'S some ART, right there. like, *BA-BOOOM!!!*
I arrive here through LinkedIn , and I can tell you you have a good work there . My favorite was your "expression-change" animation. Good job!
Great job! Congratulations!
I just took my first 3D animation class (I'm more of a 2D person) and I'm baffled by all the constraints you must've worked with in the first one
This is just amazing man! Congratulations, my favorite so far!
Juan Pablo Forero Oh wow you found my reel. lol. Thanks a lot man! I really appreciate it. Yours turned out great too! Nice job!
You do not have nearly as much subscribers as you should have. You inspired me to do better at animation! Thanks! :)
Really appreciate it! Thanks!
Great job Andrew I hope you do great things and I get to see them!
tylersims13 Thanks! Sure will. :]
Absolutely amazing stuff man!
Subsisto Thanks a lot!!
Very great work! I wanted to ask how your experience at full sail was? I am an animation graduate from huntington university and I was considering going there to advance my animation knowledge and I was curious how the program was?
Amazing work!
Amazing reel!!! 👌👍
Hey how did you Render the Mery rig without her showing Up grey?
great stuff =)
This is well done.
i see a disney pixar movie in your future bro really like your work
+DEVOSUB018 Thanks man! I hope!
Hi what program did you User?
how do you render the parts of character only?, like 0:25 or 0:35 and so, do you render it with background? or do you only render the character and the shadows only and then place a background on after effects or other software? plz tell i need to know how everyone does that! thank you
Sorry about the late reply but no the background was done in Maya. I was on a time constraint so I wanted to spend as little time in after effects as possible. If you plan on editing the background, lighting, shadows, etc in post production then yes you should render each separately but if not then just do it all in maya.
I am currently in my Portfolio courses at Full Sail for Computer Animation and they are showing your reel as an example. I was just curious how you were able to get the 3 different positions of the Walk and Run cycles into one screen? I did enjoy your reel and hope mine turns out just as good!
All I did was render out a front, side, quarter view all in the same resolution. Then in After Effects laid them on top of each other. Simple post edit. I didn't know my reel was used as an example at the school. Thanks for letting me know. Good luck with your reel!
Hey Andrew, My name is Brian. I'm a current student at Full Sail University in the Computer Animation Program, I was really inspired by the gravity and the smooth motion in your animation reel.
I was wondering if you had any tips or words of wisdom for a current Full Sail Student? I am currently starting my 4th month of the program, I just finished Technology in the media and entertainment industry. I'm moving on to English comp 1 starting may 1st. (I'm in the extended program on campus)
Any tips or advice you could share with me I would really appreciate! Hell, I would even pay you to tutor me haha.
Thanks! Good luck at Full Sail!
Maybe keep the 12 principles in mind? I'm a current student too, currently starting my 14th month
Sorry for the late reply I didn't see the edited portion. Some advice i could give would have to be reference everything. For my fight scene I referenced a lot of martial art techniques and studied the weight shifts. Yes I did reference Avatar and looked at particular scenes for the setup and camera angles. For my dialogue I acted it out myself and looked at a lot of body acting from sad emotional films.
Even before my demoreel all throughout school I looked at professional animators and their reels to see why their work was so fluid. I studied their acting choices and how I could take that and incorporate it into my work. I noticed they tend to keep things more subtle focusing more towards realism. They = Disney/Pixar. What I do keep noticing in all their films is how little they use blinks. It's a small detail but I try to look at every single detail to achieve the same quality as them.
So make sure you are using a lot of references for any of your shots. References are the most important in any animation. Having too many references can only improve your work. I usually take a day and a half just to get all my references together to get my idea across. Ideally try to get reference from every angle. Second, study professional animators you admire so that you can see what they are doing compared to yourself and learn from that.
Hope that helps. Good luck!
Where do you Work ?
This is really good. Did this reel get you hired and are you in the professional industry currently?
Hi Andrew, you got a really nice demo reel here. I'm 6 months away from graduating (if everything goes as planned) and I was wondering if it was hard to find a job? How did you set your foot in the industry?
Hey I personally did not have any trouble finding a job. I believe a month or so before I was going to graduate I applied to internships. I got the internship at Sony for their baseball games. I wasn't too happy about doing sports games but I figured it was my foot in the door.
After i graduated and I stayed in Florida for a few weeks before I was supposed to leave to California to start my internship. Full Sail hosted an event where students can get reel critiques by a recruiter from Sony. He saw my work and immediately wanted to hire me for Sony but I told him about the internship and he said he'd pick me up after the internship (he worked in a different building doing other projects than the internship). So I did the internship for 3 months then immediately went across the street in the other building to work for the recruiter and started working on Uncharted 4.
Technically I didn't need to do the internship but I am happy I did. As much as I don't care for sports it gave me skills in other programs that helped me on my current projects. All I'm saying is to take any opportunity even if it's not your preference because the skills and experience you learn from there could get you a bigger and better position.
That was amazing. You really inspired me to get better! I'm still at portfolio 4 but i can't wait to put animations on my demo reel. Your "action with a purpose" with Ray was my favorite; curious question, was he earthbending?
@@andrewford9120 Andrew! You are incredibly inspirational and reading this reply made it even more so. Thank you for being open and transparent about your journey!
Did you animate Mery's hair or you used dynamic?
I animated it myself. You probably could add to the rig and make it dynamic but I didn't do that because I wanted to show secondary motion.
Nice Work!
That is some serious talent there. It's not just the technology or tools that does it, but the talented writers/creators/artists behind them that puts the "human feel" into it.. Great expressions and character depth.. Now just get a great story, and a script that can rival Pixar!! :D Remember, it's "all in the writing"...well, AND the expressions. :) Nice work.
***** Yeah thanks a lot! That's exactly what I plan on working on. Story is the most difficult and the most critical important part of any animation. Nice to hear from someone else. :]
No problem. Just as long as you love it and it's what you really want to do... of course you have talent! You can always team with someone else who is a writer. Or work at/for/with Pixar or the like :D
I myself had a small desire or pipe dream as a high schooler to get into computer animation, when I saw the 16-bit programs on home computers back then, I thought it was the coolest thing! But I eventually went into computer science and am now an IT professional. (Incidentally, my pipe dreams have grown since then, to being a novelist, music recording artist, etc.. a lot related to the writing and creative process). But anyway, if you don't mind me indulging, I wanted to share some inspiration through a few quotes from Steve Jobs (my favorites, and some of his best):
"When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again." --Steve Jobs
"You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it." --Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." --Steve Jobs
+Casey Henderson Wow Thanks for the words of wisdom! Really motivational stuff. Definitely going to keep pushing towards Pixar. :D
Awesome!
Sharpless Thanks! :]
Love The KUNGFU Animation HOOOOOOOOOOOWADAH0:35"
This is nice fam
muy bueno!
Can I ask where you learned to 3D model?
he learned at full sail, but most of if not all of the character models He did not create. He actually says who made most of the stuff near the end
I wonder where Andrew Ford is now :D
Hey there, not sure if you check these, fellow Full Sail guy here. I am currently working on my reel and you gave me a lot fo inspiration for mine. Mind sharing your process on the rock shot? I'd love to know! -Zach
Sir how u have blended sky and land at 0:36?
All it is is the inside of a cylinder. Flat bottom and rounded as it goes up making the back wall. Then a simple gradient material was added. Hope that helps!
Yes,Thank you sir.
good!
Круто!
nice! Does anyone know the name of those rigs at 0:48?
Yeah I'm using Claire:
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And Brooke:
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Andrew Ford Thanks buddy! :D
Nice bro
wow~ 。
👍👍
Girl Charactor NAme?
are you available for contract work?
+Big Rook Games I am not as of right now. Maybe soon in the future I will be. :]
+Andrew Ford have you found employment since graduating?
I've seen a lot of GARBAGE animation reels from students. This isn't one of them. That's some impressive work, especially being fresh out of the box, as it were.
0:31 Is it me...
Or do these people and several others ho to the same uni/college, because I have seen this girl everywhere.
Andrew~~~~
wow your name sames like me
Can i get your no please i am also Animator and i want help to improve my animation. And i want to job in U.S
Rig file send
hg animations
Last one is not better