Primitive Theater

This is our Primitive Theater assignment for Computer Animation. We had to create a ten second scene/story with characters that were primitive shapes, i.e. a blob, a person like character with stubs, or a primitive object. I decided to make a story involving two cacti. Enjoy

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Gorilla Quadraped

This assignment was for Traditional Animation and we had to design an animal character that walked on all fours. Yes, I know that gorillas don't always walk on all fours, but they do sometimes. The second part to the assignment is to do an exaggerated walk, run, etc...of some sort. That will be due in the next couple of weeks and will post it then. Enjoy!

Gorilla Quadraped from Tim Palmer on Vimeo.

First Computer Animation- Ball Bounce

Here it is! My first computer animation! It's been a long time coming, but this is it. Our assignment wasn't just a basic ball bounce, but we had to have one self motivated, or a ball that was alive, and a plain ball. They could do anything, but the plain ball had to at least stop in the frame. It could only be 10 seconds, which at points didn't seem like enough, but I got it done and it looks pretty good. So here it is, my first computer animation. Enjoy!

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Character Pantomime

Here is my pantomime. The assignment was to have a character come into the scene and interact with an object. There also had to be a clear change in emotion. I decided to have a little guy and a paper airplane. It isn't amazing, but I'm happy with it, besides the run at the end, which I will hopefully be changing and fixing soon. Anyway, enjoy!

Character Pantomime from Tim Palmer on Vimeo.

Sketchbook!

So I've been doing a lot of sketching lately. I bring my sketchbook everywhere with me, I mean everywhere. I've really started to notice an improvement in my skills even since just the beginning of this school year. I'm surrounded by very talented artists and they help push me to be better. These sketches are all from my sketchbook and some aren't very good, but they're on the same pages as others, so I left them. Enjoy! There'll be more soon, hopefully!