Animation in 3D (A3D) Final
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Animation of two characters throwing and catching a medicine ball. The disco pose in the thumbnail is not in the actual animation.

A3D Midterm
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Three characters interacting.

It was an attempt to recreate the fight scene in the factory between Jackie Chan (in white), Ken Lo, and a lackey, from the movie "Drunken Master 2"
(aka "The Legend of Drunken Master").

A3D Project: Walk Cycle
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A class project: create a seamless walk cycle for a character.

A3D Project: Lifting
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A class project: have a character stack three blocks, smallest to largest. Kind of silly at the end.

A3D Project: Push
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A class project: have a character push a column and have it fall over. Kind of silly at the end.

Compositing & Editing (CE) and Computer Special Effects (CSE) Combined Project 320x240 - 1.36 MB - 14 seconds I video-taped myself picking up and posing with a Chinese halberd. Then I created a 3D model of the halberd with soft-body targets for a flexible blade, and a stand-in model of myself which was crudely animated to match my movement and serve as the final target for a swarm of particles. The background was spliced together from various pictures of fields, mountains, forests, etc. This was also a jab at the Highlander franchise, based on the fact that many fans do not count the first sequel as a part of the series. From my pre-production presentation:

Upset because his homeworld has been written out of the “Highlander” universe, a denizen of the world of the quickening, Ziest, comes to demand that “Highlander II” actually be considered the sequel to the original “Highlander” movie.

Originally I put the project together as a goofy trailer for a new Highlander movie, "Invader from Ziest", with the tag-line "Ziest, Ziest, Baby". Though I had intended to add sound effects, I ran out of time and just underlaid it with some rock song I found on the school computer's hard drive. At the end, I spliced in a little of Vanilla Ice's "Ice, Ice, Baby", with my friend's voice saying Ziest over the word Ice. However, the text for the trailer was lame and the audio didn't really add anything, so I took it all out when I encoded it for use here. For those who are interested, click here to see the converted PowerPoint presentation of my pre-production for this project.