Animation

 

See also 3D, Flash banners and Pixel Art.

String Theory is the first major 3D project that I've worked on, and was created in collaboration with Eugene Lipkin and Nick Bowes. It's a 4 minute short about a meeting between two fairly unusual characters, one who apparently has endless time to pontificate on the meaning of life, and the other who's entire being is focussed solely on the task of staying alive.

The modeling and animation was done inside Maya, the sound recorded and edited in Tracktion, and compositing done in After Effects.

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60mb Quicktime version

25mb divx version

YouTube low quality stream


String Theory was shown at the Animex festival in february 2006. For more information vist the Animex website.

 

 

Credits:
Story: Luke Skirenko and Eugene Lipkin
Direction: Luke Skirenko
Storyboard: Luke Skirenko
'Mavril' (pictured left) character design and modeling: Luke Skirenko
'Mavril' rigging: Luke Skirenko
'Tolstik' character design and modeling: Eugene Lipkin
'Tolstik' facial rigging: Luke Skirenko
'Tolstik' body rigging: Eugene Lipkin
'Wasp' design, rigging and modeling: Luke Skirenko
Animation: Luke Skirenko
Sound and voice acting: Luke Skirenko
Rendering: Luke Skirenko and Nick Bowes
Compositing: Luke Skirenko


Some images from the storyboards can be seen here.

This is a goofy collection of Flash experiments which used to be the body of a Flash player for my music.