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Nikki was a personal project. A full body study from concept to 3d modeling to skeleton creation and rigging, skin deformation studies and finally, realistic animation. No seams were hidden by clothing nor adornments and believable, appealing skin deformation across the entire body was the goal.
3d Studio, 3DS Max, Photoshop, Animator Pro, Premiere











Digital Domain contracted the modeling, rigging, and animating of all the player characters for Lego Alpha Team.
3d Studio, 3DS Max, Photoshop, Animator Pro, Premiere
DreamWorks requested modeling, rigging, and animating of several of the more complex characters in the fighting adventure game, Tai Fu.
3DS Max, Photoshop, Premiere










DreamWorks also required modeling, rigging, and animating of most of the dinosaurs in the dinosaur fighting game, Warpath. Additionally, composing of interesting cinematic sequences and a bonus human character, Little Hawk, but those assets did not make it into the final production.
3d Studio, 3DS Max, Photoshop, Premiere
The art and animation for this spaghetti western parody was for a casino gaming company out of Australia.
3d Studio, Photoshop, Animator Pro, Premiere, After Effects



Pelican Beach featured 3d models and rigged marine bird characters but "toon" rendered with an early 3rd party plugin for 3d Studio.
3d studio, Photoshop, Animator Pro, Premiere
Anidragon was a real-time animated background screensaver showcasing a world full of growing dragons hatched from virtual eggs. Designing and modeling of all the worlds, the dragons, the "squeeble", all the animations, FX, and scripting of all the behaviors. Several new, cutting edge approaches were discussed, flushed-out, and implemented.
3d Studio, 3DS Max, Photoshop, Animator Pro, Premiere






Take a giant step backwards if you want to create product for the early mobile devices. What a bear! A gazillion different phones and carriers, several operating systems, screen resolutions all over the place, color palettes and frame rates back to the stone age and forget compatability.
Buy hey, we still had to make it all work, so yipee, back to pixel-pushing with a handful of colors.
3d studio, 3DS Max, Photoshop, Animator Pro, Illustrator, Premiere







TIPS was an interesting concept: Athletic lessons on your cell phone by known-name sports celebrities. However, Porting to all the different handsets proved problematic and creating the pixel art was labor intensive.
Photoshop, Animator Pro, Illustrator




Teknik Digital Arts also planned on creating a series of sports games, so designing gameplay, writing specifications, and creating all the graphics for the boxes, website and marketing materials.
2000s - FLASH
Gads, who doesn't miss FLASH? What a great authoring tool. Here are several shows, games and websites utilizing vector animation and actionscript. All obsolete now of course. Thanks a lot, Google.
3d Studio, 3DS Max, Photoshop, Animator Pro, Premiere, Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, Audition, Cakewalk
Gads, who doesn't miss FLASH? What a great authoring tool. Here are several shows, games and websites utilizing vector animation and actionscript. All obsolete now of course. Thanks a lot, Google.
3d Studio, 3DS Max, Photoshop, Animator Pro, Premiere, Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, Audition, Cakewalk








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| 1980s Life Studies |