Stylish Walk - Moves Like Jagger

I just wanted to create a different walk cycle and experiment with some different styles...I looked at tons of references from YouTube, the Animator's Survival Kit and references from life as well...and this was the end result!

Scene Inside, Light Outside!

Here's our first lighting assignment of Semester IV! So we started using Mental Ray [yay!], and the first challenge was to achieve a realistic indoor scene which had to be lit by natural/outdoor light. This was done using GI and FG [Global Illumination and Final Gathering]. The image on the top is the original image, rendered in Mental Ray. The second image was rendered in Mental Ray and then edited a bit in Photoshop [bringing out the shadows and highlights, and making it a warmer, evening tone].

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After Effects: Xtraordinary Productions New Intro

First of all, Happy New Year 2013! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and joyous welcome into the new year...And let me start off this new year by announcing my NEW INTRO! May I present to you my final "digital signature" that will be displayed at the beginning of all future films that I create.

Demo Reel [August-December 2012]

*Note: With the exception of the NURBS T-Rex, all the models were made with quads [not tris]. Unfortunately the effect I used to generate the wireframe only rendered the model in tris, not quads. 

This is a collaboration of my best and most successful work done from August-December 2012 in my 2nd year of animation here at MUBC, India. 

Software Used: 

Models made in Maya

Textures done in Photoshop

Footage composited in After Effects

Sequence edited in Premiere Pro

Final adjustments and tweaking done in iMovie

For some reason the video became a little "patchy" or "grainy" as soon as I imported it into iMovie...but it was either 150MB or 5GB!

Please don't hesitate to add helpful comments and feedback!

I Like To Move It, Move It!

So I did the male walk cycle, but I was very much eager to try the female walk cycle...as you can see, the average female walks quite differently from the average male. I have exaggerated some of the movement just to make it more feminine.

The Phynglut: Concept Creature

Wow, it's finally done! This was the very last assignment of the semester for Modelling class, and I just finished it a few hours ago... This is also my very first 3D concept creature, and it was a lot of fun creating this! I have included the entire Character Bible in this post as well, so feel free to feast your eyes upon my latest creation [and read all about it as well!].

Gangnam Style - 3D Animated Version!

Alright...I was actually going to post this on the occasion of receiving my 100th subscriber on YouTube, but I couldn't wait any longer! [Hopefully this video will get me those 3 more subscribers and more!]

You Can Run...But You Can't Hide!

So here's a basic [male] run cycle...

Game Art: Unlocking the Mystery...

This is my very first post from Game Art class, [so go easy on me!]

The key on the top was a mere exercise, nothing more than that...[if you're saying "That key looks familiar..." that's because it's from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest!...my favourite of the 4 movies]. The key on the bottom is the final assignment, with texturing and lighting as well. 

Walk Like A Man [ft. Norman]

I did this several weeks ago and never got the chance to upload it until now!

So here's my very first [ok, the "Kevin and the Video Game" walk cycle doesn't count!]
walk cycle animation...