Lot's-O-Dragons

Here are some dragon designs for a 2D animated short I'm going to start here soon. The story is about an aristocrat who's constantly being beat in competitions by his neighbor. A dog show is coming up, so our hero decides to order a pampered pooch in an effort to finally beat his next door nemesis. Instead, he gets a baby dragon.

This first set of sketches here are explorations on different head shapes and attitudes.

This guy was my final for a while until...

this guy showed up. Thanks to my dear friend Anthony Holden for tips on making his grin more mischievous.

More to come!

Animals

With our senior film up and kickin', it's been really busy. I haven't updated for a while, so I'll quickly post these sketches.

These dogs were some quick concepts for the mutt that will be in our film 'Butchered Meats'.

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Red Tide

1st assignment for Advanced Storyboarding.

True story.

Tigger animation

As promised, here is my final animation for Cynthia's animation class last semester. This is the work of the last three months. I chose to animate Tigger because he was the first thing I thought of when I heard this music. This was a practice in syncing animation with music, telling a story in the animation, and linking scenes so they match up and make sense. There are still a lot of glaring problems that need to be hammered out, but overall I'm pretty happy with it. I learned so much and he was incredibly fun to animate!

Tigger from Claire Gordon on Vimeo.

Now onward to animate something new!

Tigger is © Disney and the sound clip is from the soundtrack of Miyazaki's film Howl's Moving Castle.