Demo Reel: Character animator

[lildragon]

Incredible style and work man, really dug the Busta Rhymes type characters! Did you do this all yourself? [Plugged]

-lild

[KingMob]

freakin sweet, great music to.

im sure you willd ow ell, as it seems you already have some good experience, (the spiro and mac and cheese what not) mixed with some great talent.

Really dug the whole thing.

:beer:

[mental]

i really like those psyop spots ;) ;) ;)

great reel overall.

-mental :surprised

[Hexodam]

:drool:
there is sooo much there that I have seen before

I am so honored:buttrock:

[ThirdEye]

OMG YOU MADE THE PARABOL/PARABOLA VIDEO FOR TOOL??!?!?! :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[Marcel]

Great reel!

It might be smart to add some contact information like an email adress. You never know who sees it, they might have some work for you...it would be a shame when they can't contact you.

[Gkaine]

i remember watching those macaroni comericials and saying wow thats some good CG i wonder who did that. :beer:

[lildragon]

Jeremy it's so good I have to also plug it on 3dfestival.com

salud!

-lild

[iBlue]

you made all of those commercials? daaammnn AWAKE, thats awesome!

CGTalk is defently the place to meet people in the industry, defently, defenitly is! :bounce:

[Larry_g1s]

Impressive ! ! ! :eek: Man, there's a lot of great stuff you got there. I agree with Marcel, that is what I noticed as well, no contact info at the end of the reel. Did you do all of it, if not, what portions did you do?

Great job. :thumbsup:

[Johra]

Yeah really nice style! Busta Rhymes kicks ass :)

[Animator395]

Wow! Im inspired for like a year now! AWESOME!

[rayz]

I've seen lots of those vids on tv, wow...... this deserves a beer :beer:


amazing work :buttrock:

[Marsellus]

Wow, I reconize so much of your work, nice!

What was that cel-shaded swat thing of? looked like a Maya Playblast?

[AWAKE]

Yo,


this is a nerd's dream come true.

Thanks for the plugs lildragon!

Marcel and juggernaught,

I did the animation of all characters shown in the reel. Some of the rigs, and some stuff here and there..

I'll post up the credit list and resume stuff when I get around to makin the website. I just got the server.

[phoenix2k]

omg this is great! ive seen some of those on tv before i think... biut all of this is just greeaat :)

[dark_lotus]

Awesome Work dude!!!:beer: :applause: :airguitar

[XerC]

Originally posted by rayz
...... this deserves a beer :beer:

Definitely! :beer:

[xasteycracker]

hey i seen those animations on tv. it is nice to know who done some of them. i really like the men in black on. great work. and you need more beers:beer: :beer: :thumbsup:

[enzodiac]

that's some reel i say !
great work buddy !

[TANGOMAN]

WOW! Great Reel!!Awesome:bounce:

I always wanted to now who did that adverts!

You´re the man!:thumbsup: :applause:

Bye the way,very nice style of cell rendering,whow was it done?

[drifter51]

sweet

[ninjacore]

my god. MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

your the dude who did the parabola vid and the nike adverts!!! THATS AWSOME........i'm speechless in your presence sir.....:airguitar

[Dreamwave]

OMG! are you the guy who did all this? The Nike commercial? The Godsmack videoclip and the Will Smith clip?

O man, you're great :bowdown:

P.S. The other clips are nice too but I don't know them :annoyed: probably because I live in Holland :rolleyes:

[mikkermik]

I feel like I've seen some of this somewhere before....:wavey:

MM

[KotsVlok]

Originally posted by Dreamwave
OMG! are you the guy who did all this? The Nike commercial? The Godsmack videoclip and the Will Smith clip?

O man, you're great :bowdown:

P.S. The other clips are nice too but I don't know them :annoyed: probably because I live in Holland :rolleyes:
I wanted to say exactly the same :)

[benderman]

I bet it's nice, havn't got a chanse to look at it yet but I will when I can =)

[katon]

that stuff was great, that is one awesome reel:buttrock:

[roguenroll]

great job, I've seen alot of those comm./spots.

cool

Rogue

[AWAKE]

I'm about to pass out from all the beers...


thanks alot for all the positive feedback. It's nice to hear.

Dreamwave, I didn't do lighting or modeling or compositing for those commercials. I was mainly just responsible for the character animation and some of the rigs..


Tangoman, the toonshaded stuff was done with patric jean's tomcat for maya. --Except for the psyop stuff, which was mental ray out of xsi.

[mattmos]

Seriously good stuff, and liked the way that you've put together the reel - nicely timed to the music.

Beers from me too :beer:

[jscheel]

Your character animation is wonderful. The movement is very fluid and natural. However, if I understood the lyrics correctly, I think that the music is very unprofessional. Keep up the great animation, though!

[Matt]

"We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion."

[Cman]

Originally posted by jscheel
...
However, if I understood the lyrics correctly, I think that the music is very unprofessional. ...

Classic rap baby!

[box1126]

cool~~~~~~~~~~~

[siftingsand]

That Demo reel is amazing.. how long have you been working in the field?

[Savage_Henry]

Excellent work...

your reel is an inspiration!
very nicely cut. :beer:

[facial]

Well done, :)

[johngloid]

awake do you work at Curious Pictures? I thought they do all the Mac and Cheese stuff!?

john

[AWAKE]

John,

I did work there for the Kraft stuff and the at&t stuff. I'm freelance. I actually moved from NY this past summer to pursue my animation dreams in "sunny" california.



psy_parasite,
I graduated in 1999 from SVA in NYC with a BFA in Computer A.R.t

jscheel ,

I thought about the music being a little much for some people, but I thought it was so much fun to watch, It wouldn't really matter so much.

[MPM]

Was there any collabaration with Alex Grey for that segment in the Tool video?the first time I saw that I was psyched about seeing the work of such an amazing fine artist transfer over to the world of CG, especially for such a great band like Tool.

Nice demo, personally, depending on your involvement, I would have put a little more of that in, its so short but such a great piece.

[matt_e]

You did the Parabola video!

/me falls over and faints

That's an absolutely brilliant demo reel.

[ssalo]

Really good animation, man! And any demo reel with good ol' Run DMC on it gets my vote. :thumbsup:

[AWAKE]

Originally posted by MPM
Was there any collabaration with Alex Grey for that segment in the Tool video?the first time I saw that I was psyched about seeing the work of such an amazing fine artist transfer over to the world of CG, especially for such a great band like Tool.


Yeah MPM, it was amazing.

I went to Adam Jones' house, Got to meet Alex Grey, and ended up on a team of fellow Tool fans. It was one of the coolest jobs because it was run by artists.

[kr3ml]

wow , seems like you worked on some really nice comercials :scream:

[goodlag]

wow :buttrock: :beer: :buttrock: :thumbsup:


great works!:love:

[Freebooter]

Utterly Awesome.

I'm so inspired by this work. Love the style, love the animation, and no problems at all with the music.

Really fun reel.

[StefanA]

Dude!

Just wanted to say that it was a great reel! I'm sure you'll find some nice gigs on that one. Good luck in CA!

best regards

.stefan andersson

[Sacha02]

best reel ever !

Run DMC + your animation = pure genius

[BadKarma]

RAHHH u did the freestyle advert? rahh rahh rahh ! damn nice work fella.

u wanna tell me bout the freestyle advert, like what did u do in it etc?

BadKArma

[eLm0]

i love the whole reel but i mainly love
all the stick figure animation fuking amazing talent
seriously pass out i don't care heres another beer cheers:beer:

ohh i love the music with all the breakdancers fits in perfect especially the will smith dj guy love that serious props!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[jenga]

:bounce: Hello Jeremy first of all that is incredible... I just want to ask what school did u attend for animation? cuz i am going to attend ringling school of art and i just want to know if i am doing the right choice.

thanks and keep it up dude:thumbsup:

[rquinn]

Nice a b boy in the community
you breakdance?
and was that mocap
if not )(_*&()(&?)(
great reel
beasty boys?

[road to hell]

Tool is very good and your videos are amazing :drool: . Incredible demo :beer: :thumbsup:

[Onno]

Most impressive to say the least.

The Nike stuff is plain brilliant.

The rest is not much less, very inspiring, makes me want to learn to animate right away!

:thumbsup:

[AWAKE]

Jenga,

I went to SVA in New york for school. Ringling is an amazing school to be at judging by the work that comes out of there.. you definetly made a good choice.


Badkarma,

For the freestyle stuff, I did the shots that I put on my reel. I was one of four animators. 3d was done in maya,and compositeded in the flame.

-R.quinn
Cant really call myself a bboy, cause I can't break. too much nerding.

I'm glad so many people like the reel:) Thanks yall

[Xaint]

Feeling eternal, all this pain is an illusion... :airguitar :buttrock:

[iNFERNiS]

so your one of the guys behind the freestyle commercial, cewl :D

very nice reel :thumbsup:

[sidewing]

Interesting, all I get is just the titel JEREMY and some music...

Guess must be my Wildcat.

[stv]

Awake, thnak you for posting your reel. great lessons from a real pro.

all the best

[victor throe]

my jaw is starting to bruise with the amount of times it hits the floor in this place

[Egan311]

WOW! I can't believe you got to work with Alex Grey and TOOL. I'm such a huge fan of them.....
that would be my dream job.

Great work!

[Viper3d]

Nice work, I love the range of motion that the stick figure character had when he was dancing and playing Bball. I dont know if someone already asked, but did you do motion capture for the movement or is that all done from experience and knowledge?

Good job.

[Kel Solaar]

Impressive! the animation is perfect Good Job ! :buttrock: :buttrock:

[turbahn]

First of all, YOU ROCK!! Amazing work!!!

There is one think I was wondering about,
In the Frisbee commercial, how did you guys make the part where the animated character slides into the sand?

[unwrap]

Hey, this is from the Parabola video. :buttrock:

...Embrase this moment, remember
We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion...

Great modelling!

[ntmonkey]

Hey Jeremy,

First of all, awesome work! I love the simple dog and the stick figure using the head as a ball. Totally creative and nicely animated.

If I were to submit an animation reel to a company specifically to land an animation position, would a simple stick figure like yours suffice?

I'm definately inspired like the rest of us! :bowdown: :bowdown:

Lu

[kannu]

Hi
Great , great work!!!:bounce: :bounce:

Gratulations !:applause:
:thumbsup:

[jscheel]

Originally posted by sidewing
Interesting, all I get is just the titel JEREMY and some music...

Guess must be my Wildcat.

I hade the same problem. Just download the latest release of divx from divx.com

[eRaDiCaT0r]

oooo I dig that still from the Parabola shot...that was some heavy duty compositing effects there, didja make all that too?
:buttrock:

[TheClick]

:eek:
Alex Grey
Man, you sure are skilled to be able to do a CGI version of his X-ray characters, auras,electric energy and all, it appears from the picture. To work with him would be an honor, as it is even finding an exhibition online of someone that HAS the ability to do such good shit.

Nice work. I envy you.:applause: you got skeeylls

It's a darned shame that I'm on my job(library) computers, which will not let you install or upgrade.
I spent 45 minutes downloading only to find I can't watch it with any of the media viewers on these computers.
and this is why it is such a shame, especially:

everytime I do a piece of occasional artwork I experiment with different techniques to expand my ability. A JOB with functional art would be nice. but the library is nice and quiet. My last was a giger-esque(to the best of my ability) 2 pt perspective step up from my other one pt perspective robotic piece. I didn't copy giger, I did Spiderman 2099 with alot of tiny circuitry.

Anyway last week I decided to do something I've been trying to figure out for a while: an Alex Grey piece.
No, I don't copy the work(well except for the time I discovered Howard Terpning, but I hardly showed anyone that)
I have always dug completely into mysticism.
An infinity sign two snake Ouroboros with infinite eyes inside on fire. I don't think hes done that one(?)
So the day before yesterday I re-checked out Transfigurations, and studied the best one can with a big book(they don't have his other ones in our system yet, I reserved a copy of Mission of art, waiting, waiting) like a freakin' Alex Grey Disciple.
That guy appears to me as a genius.

And then I come across this yesterday, and I can't view it.
:annoyed:

[Ender0910]

totally cool. I LOVE the dancing. truely an inspiration! :) :beer:


what was the name of the song in the background?

[Muv Bloated]

****ing nice work.

[AWAKE]

Originally posted by turbahn

There is one think I was wondering about,
In the Frisbee commercial, how did you guys make the part where the animated character slides into the sand?

turbahn,

The cg sand was done with geometry and particles. In the commercial there is a lump of sand that grows from the dog digging.. mostly geometry and particles.. (I didn't do any of that stuff)


ntmonkey,

I would imagine a reel with stick figures would be good enough, but the thing you have to remember is that if people don't see it on the reel. They think you can't do it. So I'd say it might be limiting your options to do only one type of character. People want to see at least some variety...

The click,

I'll put up a quicktime version soon. I just got the server, and I'm running all over the place, but It will be up soon.. maybe I'll drop the whole parabola section on there..



Ender0910,

Beats to the Rhyme

http://www.gracenote.com/xm/pcd/oldschoolhiphop/f326ee72b7f95a41cc13a14b0c7706b6.html

[johnwnguyen]

dude.....im working @ Imaginary Forces and we are in need of a character animator with some style like you....we have a big project and was wondering if you:

A) live in LA
B) are interested in working @ Imaginary Forces

couldnt find any contact info, so hoping this will work.
email me back as soon as you can!

John Nguyen
3d Animator/Designer
tito@streakoflight.com

[js33]

Originally posted by Cman
Classic rap baby!

You mean Classic CRAP baby!
There is nothing now or will there ever be classic about RAP. :shame:

Also that was a bad choice of music? for such a good reel. :annoyed:

Cheers,
JS

[lildragon]

Originally posted by johnwnguyen

John Nguyen
3d Animator/Designer
tito@streakoflight.com

Who's Tito? I have to ask because my name is probably the most uncommon name around :)

salud

[Reality3D]

Hii jeremy. I had curiosity when i saw at tv the stickman ad time ago. And then here is one of the authors of the shot :). A couple of friends and I made a demo(demoscene) with similar concept on 2000. You can download it at

http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F2000%2Fbcnparty00%2Fdemo%2F2ndfloor_0.75-incognita.zip&fileinfo

incognita demogroup info:
http://www.incognita-hq.com/

Did you saw this demo before or it's just a coincidence?. Great anims by the way.

[AWAKE]

Reality,

The link didn't work, so I columbo-ed the file. I think it was the 3d stickfigure walking around in the photos. I haven't ever seen that before. The Nike stickman concept as far as I know was created at wieden + kennedy. I had absolutely nothing to do with the creative. Only Post production.


js33, I guess Hip hop's not for everyone.

[Reality3D]

The working link(copy the second line after the first)

http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F2000%2Fbcnparty00%2Fdemo%2F2ndfloor_0.75-incognita.zip&fileinfo

[lildragon]

Booyah! You know it was coming ;)

You have received the CGtalk choice award .Please feel free to display this image anywhere you like! Inspiring work!

upon receiving this award, it guarantees you a spot in the cgtalk gallery hall of fame (http://gallery.cgtalk.com) - which you are now placed

http://www.cgtalk.com/plug_award/cgtalk_award_june03.jpg

P.S. Please email me @ tito@cgnetworks.com so I can send you the award .psd file

salud

[Zero314]

there he is folks...

look out kids, he's unstoppable

-caribe

[AWAKE]

YEah!


I wanna give a Big shout out the constraints, without whom I'd be counter animating like crazy. Mad props to the bones, ik handles, and control objects for keeping it real in the background.

and last but not least, word up to all my cgtalking heads.


Thanks Lil'd and all the admins!

JEremy




c.h.a.m.s

[danielsa]

Simply Show :eek: :drool: :beer:

[ToiletDuck]

I'm not trying to be insulting in the least, I'm just curious. Did you really make all of those? Or did you do some and put the other ones in? Either way I loved the video.

[AWAKE]

Originally posted by ToiletDuck
I'm not trying to be insulting in the least, I'm just curious. Did you really make all of those? Or did you do some and put the other ones in? Either way I loved the video.


I do not steal work. The work I put on the reel is all my animation. I don't do lighting, compositing, modeling or fx.(at least not for money) Just character animation.

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