Brandon's Goal Foundation!

Over the summer, or August I should say, myself and a couple of other artists were asked to create a 30 second commercial for Brandon's Goal Foundation. Brandon's Goal is a charity that focuses on childhood cancer and aims to raise awareness as well as raise money to support research for childhood cancer. More info at their website here! Trying to finish this thing before classes started was hectic but was an awesome experience. 

Here is the full commercial (I was responsible for the first shot). The challenging part was of course the plane, trying to keep the volume consistent and having it rotate smoothly. A classmate suggested doing it in Maya and drawing over but that takes all the fun out of it! Our small group consisted of  Wendell Dalit, Youri Dekker, Kevin Lam, Catharina Sukiman and myself.

Brandon's Goal Foundation Ad - created by SJSU Dept of Animation from wendell dalit on Vimeo.

Edith and the Bear!

Last semester for my advanced animation class, I had the pleasure to work on a cute and fun short film directed by Hillary Bradfield. Here are a couple of pencil tests I did for it. Overall fun experience, I really enjoy these film projects and I learn a lot from each one. 

3D Time!

Here are two shots from my intermediate digital animation class last semester spring '13. 
Our goal for the first shot was to animate a character picking up an item. 

I really like the cartoony style of animation and I tried to incorporate that here for this character.


Aldo Pickup Final from aldo kcomt on Vimeo.

For the second shot we had to take a pose we worked on previously and create a before or after animation from it.

Here's the pose I chose


and the outcome.




Scared Final from aldo kcomt on Vimeo.

I tried to push myself more than the last shot and tried to think of a reaction to a loud sound that would have a bunch of movements. Happy with it but if I were to redo it I would add more frantic actions during and after the landing.