Sherwyn Wong - 3D Animation Demo Reel 2022

"RUN" ANIMATION BREAKDOWN

I started out modeling the environment and obstacles then begin animating the camera with simple cubes to solidify my ideas. Nailing down the camerawork was very important before moving into character/creature animation.

Next, I start animating the caveman character although it seemed like a daunting task. The cube animation in layout really helped me understand the position and timing of my characters so it made the process not only easy but fun! Posing the caveman character was lots of fun as my biggest inspiration was anime due to how stylistic and dynamic the poses are. After the pantomime, I begin adding the facial poses for the human.

After finalizing the character and creature animation, I begin adding environment FX like rocks falling, boulders shattering and branches snapping. All of FX animation were hand keyed with the help of some Maya tools.

The major inspiration for this shot is one of my favorite animated TV series of all time which is Genndy Tartakovsky's "Primal" (I highly recommend this show to everyone!). Animating this in 2s was also a personal decision of mine to step out of my comfort zone but to have fun doing so and I'm really glad with the outcome as well as the new techniques I have learnt. Spider-verse, 1917 and anime were some of my main inspiration for the action and camerawork. Also, I love dinosaurs and always wanted to animate a sauropod (long-necked dinosaur) so I'm glad to tick it off the list of things I want to animate.

Rigs:

Shawn - KYOSIL
Brachiosaurus - Truong CG Artist