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.