Jeff Baker: Character Animator Character Animation, one key frame at a time

12/23/2009

Werehyena: Idle

Filed under: Animation — Tags: , , — Jeff Baker @ 1:26 pm

Finally got around to animating this guy.  Going to work on a run and attack after this.

09/07/2009

Troll Attack Edits

Filed under: Animation — Tags: , , , , — Jeff Baker @ 4:00 am

My wife and brother both felt that the mace still didn’t have enough weight. So I went back over it and really payed a lot of attention to how it moves and how he’s moving it around. Now it feels super heavy to me.

Edit: I wanted to do a side by side comparison

09/05/2009

Gorilla Run

Filed under: Animation — Tags: , , , — Jeff Baker @ 3:27 am

I’ve been looking for a rig of a larger character, and I’ve see this particular rig on Highend 3D for some time. So I decided to download it and check it out. I must say its a great one. I plan on doing a few more actions with this one.

09/03/2009

Two Hour Animation

Filed under: Animation — Tags: , , — Jeff Baker @ 11:05 pm

I’m working on being quicker with my animations, so I’m doing these quick cycle animations for video games.  This was done in two hours.

08/29/2009

Demo Reel 2009

Filed under: Animation — Tags: , , , — Jeff Baker @ 3:34 pm

The Final reel with music. I tightened up the beginning animation a bit and to make it a little less redundant.

08/28/2009

Added Animation

Filed under: Animation — Tags: , , , — Jeff Baker @ 8:41 pm

Added a new animation to the demo reel, finished this one up today so I wanted to make sure it got in.

08/26/2009

Final Render- Mech Girl

Filed under: Animation — Tags: , , , , — Jeff Baker @ 12:40 pm

This is a lower quality of the final animation. With lights, motion blur, updated camera, and reworked the ending to give it a better “splash”. I added in the muzzle flashes to the rig to give it a more dynamic moment.

08/24/2009

Mech Girl

Filed under: Animation — Tags: , , , , , — Jeff Baker @ 11:38 pm

Still having fun with cameras and building up that portfolio. Did this one today. Need to fix up some more little issues with that second half. But I like it so far.

08/22/2009

Back to the action

Filed under: Animation — Tags: , , , — Jeff Baker @ 6:14 pm

Sorry for the lack of updates, some times I miss the motivation train. But, I’ve got two weeks free to work so I’m going to bust some stuff out.

I’ve had this one I’ve been working on off and on and finally finished it up. I wanted to work with a camera, because a lot of the best game demo reels I’ve seen have camera work and it really brings the scene to life. Interested to hear what people think.

*Edit* Removed the cut. Felt very jarring and smoothed out the camera a bit.

04/20/2009

My new Blog!

Filed under: Animation — Tags: , — Jeff Baker @ 6:37 pm

I decided to move away from Blogspot as it did not offer the solutions I needed to display the large format Quick Time movies that I like to view my Play Blasts in. Quick Time is great because it gives me the chance to watch the animation frame by frame.

As a small repost, here is the Axe Attack animation with clean up.

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