Tuesday, February 28, 2012

My First Demo Reel

I finally put together a demo reel.  This is a compilation of the last couple years of work.  My first one was done back at the beginning of 2009.  That is when i bought my first wacom bamboo tablet and started getting into art and animation.  I was also living out of my van, snowboarding everyday in the Colorado mountains, and animating every night at the public library.  Seems like such a long time ago.

After that I came back to Montana, and did a couple more little animations here and there.  Then for my 20th birthday in 2009, my girlfriend bought me an Intuos 3 9x12 tablet, which helped my digital art out a lot.  I realized though that my lack of solid drawing abilities made the animation much harder.  So from then until now I've been learning how to draw, and that's why I started this blog.  I started it to post my lessons from the $100,000 drawing course from the famous John K.

After a long stint away from animating, I've been able to get back into it recently and it feels good.  My drawing abilities have gotten better, but those still have a long way to go.  My animating abilities have also gotten way better, which I think can be seen from the intro to my demo reel that I just animated a couple days ago.

I made this demo reel because I saw a job posting for a animating job on craigslist, but I realized I didn't have anything but a couple of posted videos to show off my animation.  So I started making this reel, and then I saw that the job had been taken down already, but I figured it would be good to have this made.  I might not be the best reel, but my animation can only get better from now on.

Enjoy


Demo Reel 2012 from Tyler Williams on Vimeo.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

New Daily

I got a new daily up for all of you guys.  I have had a lot more time to draw and animate lately and boy does it feel good.  It's posted on my vimeo channel.


Daily 2 - Sneak from Tyler Williams on Vimeo.


It happened because I was having trouble drawing arms on my cartoons, and I was always guessing when the bicep would push in or when it would push out, so I drew some roughs after figuring it out, and then I wanted to make a sneaking walk cycle.

sorry if it's a little hard to see