Animation Reel

So here's my animation reel thus far....school starts this week and I'll soon be knee-deep in my senior film.

Curtis Carlson Animation Reel from Curtis Carlson on Vimeo.

Visual Development

So it's been awhile, but here is some of my work from Visual Development last semester. Theme=Wizard of Oz.

My flying monkey piece was just accepted into the LCAD Juried Student Show. So that's pretty neat.

Finals

Wow finals have been a really killer...
Here's my last couple things from Character Design


A layout of the kids in Narnia


Peter ready for battle


and the White Witch

Griffin 2

Here's my colored Griffin...have a happy thanksgiving everyone.

Griffin

I'm doing a Griffin right now in Character Design. Here are a couple of my iterations...


My teacher said this was too parrot like


This was a step in the right direction although I needed to work on my shapes and the beak still looked to parrotish.


Finally Lou approved my griffin so I started to color it


Here's my rough color to give me a sense of my palette.

I'll post the finished griffin in a bit..

Character Design

Right now I'm taking Character Design. We are assigned a theme, then we pick a reference artist who we will study and emulate. This semester's theme is the Chronicles of Narnia and I chose Mark Behm, an animator from the bay area, as my artist.

I started with Mr. Beaver


Then moved on to Mr. Tumnus


The last character I did was the Professor