Centaurs and Robots

My teacher was holding an Animation contest for an old Nickelodean animation desk he had to get rid of before moving, the requirements were to animate a walk and run cycle in a week. I wanted the desk bad (I was tired of animating on a little lightbox from Michaels) so instead of just some dude walking I tried the most complicated thing I could think of at the moment. A Centaur. And here they be! 

First we got a walk going



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Then we kick it up with a little bit'a run action



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All in all I was pretty happy with them, and I guess my teacher was too, I totally won that sweet desk! No more lightbox for me! 


Next up on the docket, we have the finalized ROBOT SCULPTURE!


BOOM!
Front

 Back

 Drill Arm Attachment

Drill Details

Dynamic!!

It was a blast, I plan on starting some more up soon! 


Thats it for now, catch ya all on the flip side!  


- Geoff 

demo Reel 2010

whats up everyboday! Here it is, the moment we have all been waiting for! gwanimation demo reel 2010! huzzah!



let me know what ya like! 


- Geoff

Pencil Test Ahoy!

Hey all, here are a couple more random animations for ya'll to check out!


 First here we have my first ever attempt to sync up audio with animation, we were given a Pink Panther model sheet to use for the character and just had to have him playing drums along with the audio in any way we wanted, this is what I came up with! Next

Pink Panther Drummin from Geoff Webb on Vimeo.

This one here was a double whammy,  we had to have a heavy object AND water splashing effect! CRAZY TALK! so obviously the first thing to come to mind was a Pirate and a Chest into some water



Pirate Push from Geoff Webb on Vimeo.

More to come! 


- Geoff 

Robotron update!

Here is a quick update on how my radical robot sculpture is commin' along! he's startin to bulk out on the bottom there, getting some shape on those legs and pelvic region. Im having a lot of fun with him and cant wait to finish it up. 

Keep coming on back to see the finished product! 

Keep coming on back to see the finished product! 

- Geoff 

Japanese Robots!

Hey all! Its been a while, I'm a little crazy with trying to graduate but here I gots some new stuff. I am currently in a Advanced Sculpture (for Animation) course and working on a robot design. 

We were given descriptions of characters from an Adult Swim show Titan Maximum and are basing our designs and sculpts off the same descriptions from the show. 

I am working on the lead Robot Titan Maximum who is made up of 5 space ships (like VOLTRON!) so I went about looking up Japanese super heroes and Robots (the show is a spoof on these series anyways) 

Influenced Heavily from The Original Power Rangers I grew up on, along with other early 90's/80's robot cartoons such as Transformers and Voltron - I created this design. 

The next step is to start the Armature and building the guy! Here we have him with a base coat on and a basic block in of shapes

Ill keep posting updates on how this guy is coming along! 

Stay Tuned! 

- Geoff

Some more 2d goodness

Here are a couple more hand drawn animations I have, First off we have a little Robot Dodging some dodge balls! 



Robot Dodge ball from Geoff Webb on Vimeo.

And here is a little animation of Yogi and BooBoo Bear playing hackey sack, for this one I did all of the keyframe animation and timing and a fellow student did the inbetweens. 



Hackey Sack yogi from Geoff Webb on Vimeo.

enjoy!


- Geoff

Talking with God, starring.....GOD!

For a production class, two buddies and I had to come up with an animated short in an 11 week span. The only requirement was that the theme be 'dead celebrities' (this was just after that weird week where it seemed like all our celebrities were dropping dead, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Farrah Fawcett, etc). We came up with the idea of God hosting a talk show in heaven and having guests come on. We decided on using Micheal Jackson, Billy Mays and Ed McMahon, along with God and the Devil.


Here are some character concepts I came up with for the production. 

We decided to go with my designs for the Devil and Michael Jackson so I whipped up a couple quick turn arounds, Michael Jackson I just went with a more stylized version of himself 

and for the Devil we turned him into a sort of Hollywood Agent type character 

Here is the animatic created from my storyboards for the short 



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Annnnnnnnd the final animated short! the animation was done in about 6 weeks or so, I worked on the MJ dance sequence and the bit with the devil at the end. This was my first time really working in Flash, it turned out alright if i say so myself. 



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Well, it looks like thats it for now, come back for more later!


- Geoff 

Random Assortment of Animations

Hey all, I know its been a while, been busy with school and whatnot but here are some random animations I have done for school.

First we'll start with a basic bouncing ball with a tail situation, I know we are all too familiar with this guy

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Next up we have some character work, this is my little buddy moom turning around and attempting a killer back flip

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Finally, here we have a snoozing puppy

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and what I can only imagine he is dreaming about, a pile of bones! walking of course!

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Thats all I have right now, tune in next time for more!

- Geoff

Starting it off

Hey everybody my name is Geoff Webb, I am an aspiring animator and this is my aspiring blog! I will be updating this place with all my latest and greatest, to get the ball rolling here are some oldies but goodies (I think anyways)

first we have a jack in the box

now we have a nice little lad enjoying his cold cola from the bottle

keep droppin' by for more of the awesome, until next time!

- Geoff