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Recent Animation | Motion Graphics
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Recent Animation:

Well Wishers (41.0 mb) Adobe Photoshop, Alias Maya
Senior animation project. I animated roughly a quarter of the shots in this film and storyboarded the entire thing. I also designed and modeled the props including the coin, the sign beside the well, and the coinpurse.
Poster 1 Poster 2
Bird - Crazy Rig (2.38 mb) Alias Maya

A bird that I was assigned to rig for a motion test. Here you can see the bird's fly-cycle.

Lip-Sync (2.0 mb) Adobe Photoshop, Alias Maya

An exercise learning to create and utilize facial shapes for lipsync animation and facial expression. This clip features Virtual Rob, a digital version of my roomate.
Rob front Rob side

Bouncing Ball (4.03 mb) Adobe Photoshop, Alias Maya
Exercise to develop weight and timing. Morphing ball model provided by Nicoletta Adamo-Villani. All other models and all textures and animation by myself.
See-saw (1.48 mb) Alias Maya
Another exercise to develop familiarity with principals of animation.
Falling Cup (1.75 mb) Alias Maya

Another exercise to develop familiarity with principals of animation.


Motion Graphics:

BNN Intro (1.97 mb) Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Alias Maya
Second half of an introduction created for the Boiler News Network at Purdue University. I was entirely responsible for creation of clip shown here.

Recent Animation | Motion Graphics
(all clips require Divx Codec to play.)

 

Will Kistler Animator   Current Projects | Animation | Still Gallery | Demo Reel | Résumé | Contact | Bio | Links