11 Second Club - May 2013

After watching from the side-lines as some colleagues entered the 11 second club animation competitions every month, (one even winning!) I decided I had to try it.  My acting experience is really limited, so it was cool to journey into this whole other culture, and I actually came to realize why people love feature animation so much.  You're not just making a character move.. you're giving them life!  During my second week this whole idea hit me and I started seeing this character have personality, and it felt great.  I'm definitely doing this competition again.  Anyway, here's my entry:

Thieves - 11 Second Club Entry - May 2013 from Sam Baker on Vimeo.

Stream of Consciouness

Wow I've been busy!  Almost a year since I've updated this blog, but hey it's been wild.  Unemployed for 8 months and then luckily landed a job up in Toronto, which is finally coming out of the 6 month ice age.  Anywho, this awesome animator named David O'Reilly (http://davidoreilly.com/) made a 17min long short film called External World, and released all 60 or so character rigs for FREE!  I just HAD to do something with them, so after work, in the 4 hours of sanity I had left in the day, I made new little animations.  Hopefully I'll continue this for a while.  Here's part 1!


Stream of Consciousness from Sam Baker on Vimeo.

Farts

It's been a while!  Over a year and no posts.  I've been busy, but also slacking, so here's a new one!

Motorcycle in a Tunnel

It's been an incredibly long time since I've touched this blog, but I HAVE been doing stuff, really! Here's something new. Unfinished, not sure what I'll do with it, but it's something to work on when I'm not making money :D



At the end there's supposed to be an explosion that thrusts the transport up when it slams into the bike, but I think I'll just cut the bike in half. Pieces flying around are hot.

Another Robot Animation!

Love this guy :P

More Side-Tracking!

Do I ever do work? Well yes, but only when it is necessarily vital to the completion of something utterly amazing. Anyway Jeremy sent me his blocked-out robot model and I rigged it up for an animation test. Check it out!

Inspired to make something crazy

This is a delayed post.. I watched Coraline again and still am blown away by how amazing the animation is. It's so ridiculously smooth and the arc's drive me crazy! LOL so I was inspired to make this wobbly creature thing. Rigged it with an IK for a "knee" and another for the foot. Just fun random stuff while I'm supposed to be working. Cheers :)