Creature Animation Demo reel

Eight months ago, I enrolled in a 3-month online Creature Animation Course, and learned some techniques on how to animate quadrupeds. I did it full-time, because I didn't think I'll be able to balance work and learning this simultaneously without affecting both my professional work and my health negatively.  It was really intense, yet fun. In the end, I'm happy with the what I have done.

Here's the result.  Enjoy!

Creature Animation by Jocelyn Sy from Jocelyn Sy on Vimeo.

A Short Cat Animation

Although I've animated some 4-legged animals in the past as a traditional animator, however, I don't think I did them that well back then.  Achieving subtle acting and performance in hand-drawn animation was, and still is very difficult. Not that it's any easier to do in CG,  but it is achievable and believable.

It's been a much-delayed interest of mine to at least try to animate quadrupeds in CG.  And so, I decided to take a realistic creature course at Animation A Team with Rob Hemmings, to learn some new approach and techniques of how to do this.

This is the thumbnail sketch for the story idea of "Gotcha!", ( originally called Cat Chase), which I consider my first successful attempt in animating a realistic quadruped animal as a 3d animator.

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So below are the final  results. Enjoy!

                 

And here's the same animation with  fur render.
   
                 

                 

Hotel Transylvania 2 Teaser Trailer

Here's the teaser trailer of Hotel Transylvania 2, the movie I'm currently working on.

          
       

My 2014 Character Animation Demoreel

Here's my latest demoreel.  (Password: 2014AnimDemo)

                 

My Animsquad Shot # 3

    ( To see shot 1 & 2, click here)

    The third and final shot I started during the 2014 Animsquad Winter Term Workshop with Malcon Pierce.  It's the longest shot I've done so far. I must have been crazy to have chosen to animate a shot this long - 615 frames.  I haven't animated any shot this long in my professional career......yet.

    One of the difficulies in animating this long shot is how to sustain my interest and energy in doing it long after the workshop was finished.  But  I just kept at it and finally, it's done!  I was trying to remember all the stuff I've learned from Malcon during the workshop, while I was animating this outside of the workshop on my own now.  My sincerest thanks to my Animsquad tutor, Malcon Pierce.  Fantastic tutor!!!

    It's been an exhausting, 14 weeks of animating.  But it's all worth it. 

    Here it is.... Enjoy!  

   
              

My Animsquad Shots

     Even after many years of being an animator, there's always something new to learn and strive for. Animating in TV productions, where the schedule is really tight and fast, I never really had much opportunity to think about original story and performance ideas for characters. Usually, these had already been decided by other people before the scenes are handed over to the animators. 

     Now that I'm presently unemployed again, I decided to enroll in another online workshop, to improve my acting performance choices and learn how to polish the scene well.  It's also an excuse to do some personal animation work for my demoreel.

     So for the last 12 weeks and still ongoing, I've been really busy animating  2 out of 3 shots for Animsquad 2014 Winter Term  Expert Acting Workshop, with Malcon Pierce as my tutor.  

       It's been really fun animating with their really appealing rigs Jack and Jill. And being tutored by the Disney animator./supervisor, Malcon, who really understands how to make the scenes appealing and entertaining, is simply awesome. It's almost like I'm animating at Disney!!!   

     The search for the right audio clips, story ideas, sets and props had been an enjoyable process as well. The sets and props I've used here were free rigs I've downloaded from Turbosquid. I made some modification with the rigs to suit my purposes.

      So here's what I've done, so far.....Enjoy!

Shot 1 - Women

           



Shot 2 - Not Mine


           



Shot 3 - I'd Love To

           Still in progress....Coming soon!  
              click here!!!

          

Kung Fu Panda -Legends Of Awesomeness

Here's some of the shots I did for Nickelodeon's Kung Fu Panda - Legends Of Awesomeness TV series.

 Enjoy!  (Password: KFPDemo)

  

Robot And Monster!

      Last year had been a busy year for me . One of the projects I worked on at Oktobor, was for Nickelodeon's ROBOT AND MONSTER new TV series.  Here's some of the scenes I've animated  from the episode "Cheer Up, Mr. Wheelie".  Enjoy...

(Password:  RBDemo)

  

Penguins Of Madagascar....

           In May of 2010, I started working for Oktobor Animation Studio in New Zealand. It's been a busy year, and one of the things I did was animating these characters, from Nickelodeon's PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR  Season 2 TV series.    Here's a few scenes I did, from the following episodes: " King Julien For A Day";  "Love Hurts";  "Operation: Breakspeare";  "All Tied Up With A Boa".

           It's been fun animating and getting to know these characters.  Enjoy...

(Password: PNDemo)

Penguins of Madagascar Animation by Jocelyn Sy from Jocelyn Sy on Vimeo.

All Together Now....

My 2D and 3D character animation demo reel for 2010.  Enjoy!

    ( Password: 2d3dDemo ) 2D/3D Character Animation Demoreel (2010) from Jocelyn Sy on Vimeo.

Singing Vegetables

Bob The Tomato

( Password: veggiedemo )

Here's some of my 3d animation work - Big Idea's Veggie Tales. These were done under the facilities of Huhu Studios in NZ.

These are for the Veggie Tales:
-  Abe's Amazing Promise;
-  Minnesota Cuke And the Search for Noah's Umbrella;
-  St. Nicholas and the Story of Joyful Giving;
-  Pistachio The Little That Woodn't.

3D Character Animation Demoreel from Jocelyn Sy on Vimeo.