Bale animation contest

The Splinedoctors put on an animtion contest. I had a blast with it! Here is my entry.

Bale Animation Challenge from Brandon Beckstead on Vimeo.

Wow, I love this Bee commercial!

Amazing animation! I don't actually think the cough drop would float..............but wow that bee is fun to watch!

Idiota

Ok so I had a blast with this one! On purpose I didn't read the english translation for this. It was fun to try to come up with something based only on the energy of the audio clip.

Fighter.............!

Had some down time at work, so.........I did this. I would love to hear comments and suggestions, Thanks! (The above pic is a link to a bigger .mov H.264)

My first demo reel..........ouch.

Someone on the AM forums posted their first reel and so I had to dig mine up to take a look. I haven't seen this in about six years, and when I watched it I almost died of laughter. This was my very first reel coming out of school. Yeah ouch......seriously......amazingly.....awful! But I thought this was fantastic at the time! I wish they had animation mentor back then.....

Go ahead, have a laugh on me!

B-O-D-Y-----------s?

Ok so this is certainly not the best animation I have done but I had alot of fun with what time I had to do it. I really liked the line of dialogue and I wanted to test out a new workflow idea. Well, the workflow idea didn't pan out so well but I thought the 11 second club was a great place to test it out. At work I get to see so many different workflows from different animators that my workflow is constantly evolving a bit. Some things work, some things don't but I think it's important to try new things and always be learning. This one just happened to teach me what DOESN'T work for me, ha ha. But it's always worth a shot......

Lovin Dreamworks!

Man Dreamworks is such an amazing place! The Glendale campus is amazingly beautiful and the projects going on right now are really fun to work on. This is my first foray into feature film animation and it's even better than I thought it would be! The animation software is harder to learn than I expected, I didn't know how dependant on Maya my workflow was. But I think I am over the hump with the software and now I can just focus on animating. Anyway I hope everyone has seen this already but if not, go check out Kung-fu Panda!


Kung Fu Panda is going to be the best animated feature that Dreamworks has ever done....in my opinion.

I am working on Monsters VS. Aliens which is a really fun film to work on, lots of fun character designs and a pretty humorous script. I hope it's going to be good!