Quick Animation - Ball Bouncing Off Wall

A quick animation I made yesterday evening of a ball bouncing off a wall. I know it looks a little weird bouncing off the wall, this rig is a bit tricky to pull off squash and stretch at weird positions like that one. 
Took about 4 hours using Maya 2010, extra time was spent setting up some good render settings and trying out Adobe Media Encoder, which came with my pack of CS4 programs (to my surprise). Between that and my Sony Vegas Platinum 10, I'm all set for pumping out good quality playblasts and renders.

Uploaded to YouTube because no matter what I did the file size was "too small" for Vimeo. Weird!

I'm working out of a bit of a slump/depression creativity-wise, so I'll be producing either a short animation or sketches at least every other day.

Cheers!

My latest character animation demo reel. Feel free to view its Vimeo page for details.

Contact me at jennymeinecke@gmail.com.

Gun Cycles

And now some cycles for a character wielding a gun. No walks or runs yet, though.




Character with Gun, Idle Cycle




Character with Gun, Aim Cycle








Character with Gun, Complete Cycle Compilation

Quick update, sword stab animation

More cycles for my demo reel... it never ends x)

This time I used a technique learned from 3D Visual Effects to import image sequences into camera planes, so I can see video footage within the Maya scene. This was hugely helpful for posing and timing and let me finish the whole thing a little faster.



Sword Stab Animation

Work from Character Animation, Summer 2010

My second CG animation class. I did pretty well overall, I remember being quite proud of some of my animations here. I also tried working with different rigs to improve my flexibility.


Three Balls, July 2010



Tonga Walk Cycle, Aug 2010



Tonga Run Cycle, Aug 2010



Tonga Does Some Heavy Lifting, July 2010



Character Jump Animation, Aug 2010



Lip Sync Animation, Sept 2010

Work from 3D Animation, Winter 2010

Here's some of my animations from my very first course in computer animation, using Autodesk Maya. Not all of them are here because I either couldn't find the latest version, or it wasn't very good. x) Also, one of our assigments was just posing a character, so no animation there.
Refer to each video's description for more details.





Old Squirrel Ball Animation, Feb 2010



Old Character Walk Cycle, March 2010



Flour Sack Suicide, March 2010

June 2011 Character Animation Demo Reel

Character Animation Demo Reel June 2011 from Jenny Meinecke on Vimeo.


My latest character animation work.
I know it's a bit backwards, but expect more posts of my older schoolwork once summer break starts up next week. =)