Work In Progress – epi toons 😎

GivingTuesday 2015, Chicago Foundation for Women

After Effects, Animation, Artwork, Design, Motion Graphics, Work In Progress / December 2, 2015

Client: Chicago Foundation for Women

Software: Illustrator, After Effects, Media Encoder

Graphic design and motion graphics for Chicago Foundation for Women’s 2015 #givingtuesday campaign.

WIP Style tests, Low Poly and Sketch

3D, Work In Progress / cinema 4d, wip / November 18, 2015

Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop

Working on some style options. Using a low poly look, booles, ambient occlusion, and some sketch & toon.

WIP Character Design

After Effects, Animation, Illustration, Work In Progress / October 10, 2015

Drawing sketches of anatomy reference for my character design. Done in Photoshop.

WIP Duik Rigging Tests

After Effects, Animation, Work In Progress / October 10, 2015

Character rigging with Duik 15 in After Effects. Working on character tests.

AE DUIK HELP: Disappearing Ik objects

epi life, Work In Progress / AE Character Rigging, DUIK, help, Inverse Kinematics, troubleshoot, Vector Animation / September 23, 2015

Update: DuDuff solved the problem. Here’s how.

This folder has a video and gif showing the problem, and copies of my AE files.

When I try to move the root/torso controller of my character, or the supermover (move all) the IK rigged assets, in this case arms and tail, disappear.

It’s almost as if they are cutout and visible through a mask of the original placement of those assets. I’ve run into this problem before but I don’t understand how to fix it or even why it happens. Not sure if Zero-ing out parts would help, frankly, I don’t understand those aspects of the script well enough to make the fix.

This is “learn to fish” moment. I’d love to hear how I can fix it, and maybe an explanation of the underlying issue so I can grow as a DUIK user and can contribute some useful info to others down the line.

epi

WIP Animation for speech assessment

Work In Progress / DUIK / September 23, 2015

Hey, folks! Working on a spec project. A client hired me to make a test animation for a series of tests designed as instruments for speech pathology. Its a pretty sweet project to work on. More coming soon! Keep up with my progress and revisions on my Behance page.

epi