SHERIDAN COLLEGE                  OAKVILLE, ONT., CANADA                   CAT ANIMATION - 1997

• Stills from a Cat Animation using Softimage. In my final project I really wanted to concentrate on a complex and realistic animation.; I strived to make the  movement of the cat sitting up, stretching, walking, jumping and pausing as realistic as possible. The skeletal set-up of the bony stray cat became quite complex to create due to the different behaviours of the eyes, torso, legs mouth and tail .

• At the time fur shader technology was just gaining ground and expensive to render at the time. Since the animation was really about the movement of the cat, I chose to use a series of blended maps for fur.

SHERIDAN COLLEGE                  OAKVILLE, ONT., CANADA                   YTV Animation - 1997

• Our first animation project. This crazy animation of a fly chasing a teddy bear in a car with a modeled church was really just a combination of projects joined together to make one.
• I experimented with Forward Kinematics with the Teddy Bear, the motion of the car skidding around the streets, The skeletal setup and cyclical path animation of a bat, organic architecture and a certain mood and lighting that I wanted to create.

SHERIDAN COLLEGE                  OAKVILLE, ONT., CANADA                   Much Music Animation- 1997

• This cartoon like fly was motion tracked using Softimage Eddie.
• Using a steady cam I ran in and out of cars at Queen and John in Toronto for the footage. This live footage was used as a background for the fly animation.

• Using Softimage and creating artificial mirrors created in CG I superimposed shadow and reflection on to the cars around. Due to the speed of the animation and the lack of realism in the fly model, this effect was exaggerated.

SHERIDAN COLLEGE                  OAKVILLE, ONT., CANADA                   CAT ANIMATION - 1997

• I was invited to stay for the summer . In this short project I concentrated on a simple lift animation to experiment with weight on a character.
• The background scene was drawn by hand and coloured in photoshop as a fun backdrop to a weird scene. Enki Bilal (a french comic book artist) inspired alien like creature.