2013 Reel and Malcolm Animation

Finished monologue from The Lost Boys with the Malcolm Rig today. Also updated my Reel!

DemoReel2013Winter Thompson Mark MP4HD720p24 from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Anim Malcom Vampireh264 from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

"Emotion Change" and "Dumb and Dumber"

I have been working throughout the semester on two animations for my Applied Computer Graphics courses in Senior Projects and 3D Character Animation. You can find weekly progress videos at http://498thompsonmark.blogspot.com/  if you are interested.  Here are the finished animations.  I hope you enjoy! Thanks for looking at my blog! (>'.')>   <('.'<)   (>'.')>   <('.'<)
Anim Morpheous DumbandDumber Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.
Anim Morpheous EmotionChange Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Beginning of the End

This was my last week of Summer break from CSU Chico, on Monday the 26th I am entering my final semester!  I finished a drawing for a boy named Daniel who is 9 years old.  My good friend Matt Wilson brought over several toys of Daniels a few weeks ago wanting me to draw them.  I was told he watched "Rocket Monkeys," so that is the look I went with. Here are the pictures I took of the toy for reference, and the final image.

I dedicated my final summer vacation to animation and getting better at it.  In my final week of break I finished an alarm wake up animation and went back to the first animation I did during the first week of break almost three months ago.  Looking back at the original piece from three months ago I can see I have learned a lot and figured out a lot during these 3 months, but also see that I have a long, long, long way to go, and am looking forward to absorbing as much knowledge as I can from John Pozzi and Mark Pullyblank in the next few months. Enjoy and thanks for looking at my blog!(no sound alarm, sound Big Trouble)

Anim AlarmWakeUp Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Anim Morpheous Big Trouble Jack Reason6 Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

VideoMatt

I was fortunate enough to get to work on an entrance for VideoMatt.  A logo was designed by Alan Knight (thisisoutlet@gmail.com) and I got to animate it.  Thanks Matt and Alan. With some fancy transitions and sound from Matt it turned out like this>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c7YWworITg&feature=youtu.be

 
Video Matt Logo BCard 1 from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

A Martian!

Hello and thanks for checking out my blog! I just finished this scene with monologue by Annette Funicello from dailywave.com. Hope you enjoy!  Thanks again!!! 

Thompson Mark Morpheous PajamaParty AnnetteFunicello PickAMartian from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Boo

I have been working on this animation for several weeks now and am comfortable enough with it to move on. It was A LOT of animating and I am looking forward to going back to doing shorter pieces, but am very glad that I did this. I hope you enjoy, sorry there is no sound. ;D

Thompson Mark Little Girl morphy Merged Final 1 from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Kane #WWE2K14COVER Finished the Necromancer. Working on animation a lot. Hopefully by next week it will all be done. Thanks for taking a look at my blog. ;D

Hit in the face and animatic from school

I finished another animation, this one of a character being hit in the face. I also wanted to post my animatic from school. ;D Thanks

Morpheous Hitby Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

I really enjoyed making the animatic. I am a horrible writer but had fun learning the process of how to make an animatic/storyboard. ;D Thanks, Enjoy!!!

Animatic Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

I worked on a laugh animation this previous week. It is about as done as I can get it. :D

Morpheous Female Laugh Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Worked on a pogo stick loop animation 2 weeks ago. I am not sure if you can loop the video in Vimeo ;( This one was a good learning experience creating a locator, and parenting the hands to the pogo stick. I also picked up zv parent master to help parent objects. I did not use it in this scene but am glad I have it for future use.

Morpheous Girl Pogo Fix Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Been working on a lot of animation since being out of school for the summer break. Wanted to share one of the animations I was working on the previous week. Tried to get a sit to stand and dialogue. Next semester we will focus on dialogue but I wanted to give it a try and get started early.
Work in progress Warcraft 3/kelthuzad/necromancer inspired character I started last weekend, just finished the line drawing and filled in the layers for value/coloring. Roughly added value,possible colors, and light source.

 

Finished some textures for the suburban houses as well as the streets. I got to work on a concept muscle car that turned out pretty good and was a lot of fun to work on.

Textures

Settle Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Weight Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Thompson Mark Hips from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Previous weeks work.  Soapbox car.  Would have a lawnmower type of engine fitted in the rear, but didn't have enough time to make engine and show in drawing. :(

Another soapbox car, this one is from last semester.

Silhouettes done over break with color theory in mind.

Bank Concept for Racing game

WW1 Castle in the sky style plane

When concept art has nothing to do.  They give us assets of TREES!

and BUSHES!!!!

Landscape in a few hours ;(

Landscape in a little more than a few hours

Thanks for the reference Greg

Abandoned animation I worked on between assignments.  Told you I was missing skating Augs.  

340boxjump Thompson Mark 1skateboard from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

                                                             Boss concept

Orthos of Flynn Rider

Raygun

Race car drivers

Here is some of the work I did in computer modeling and character modeling classes.

331Game Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Creature Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.
Bart Simpson

Character Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.
Ariel Atom

330DuneBuggy Thompson Mark from Mark Thompson on Vimeo.

Work from computer assisted art class and concept design and storyboarding class.

 

Concept art for an unnamed racing game in my advanced production class.

Ron Burgundy

Concept art for a video game in my advanced production class at CSU Chico during the Fall semester of 2012.  An alien police officer was needed.  

 

 

Scientist

 

A vehicle was needed for the animation.  One similar to the film Planet 51.

Concept art for Galactic Enforcers video game.

Poster

Vermil Kotr Spray

Mocoan Trinity Spray

Opening Menu