Jayne Night was the animation I produced for my Masters at Bournemouth University. It's a science fiction inspired action animation revolving around the main character, Jayne Night.

The animation was produced entirely in Softimage XSI. Photoshop for all original texture work and Shake and After Effects for compositing. All the animation is hand animated (no motion capture or rotoscoping!)

The animation is 3 minutes long so the video files are quite large. Please note the quality has been drastically reqduced for download. The orginal version is 720*576.

On this project I collaborated with a musician who created an original soundtrack for the animation along with orignal sound effects. Adrian Walkinshaw can be contacted in the following ways:
www.awmusic.co.uk
adrian@awmusic.co.uk

Whilst at Bournemouth Uni, we had to undertake a research project. I decided to look into facial animation and lip-synching as this is something that had interested me for a while.

This animation was the result of the short project. It was my first proper attempt at facial animation and lip-synching. It's not perfect, so I'm planning on redoing some of the animation to get it looking right.

Alien Crufts was a short animation I did before I began my final masters project.

I wanted to experiement with a more cartoony styling rather than go for the realistic look.

My inital storyboard for this animation was really funny and rather long, so in the end I had to cut it down quite abit and take out some of the characters and obstacles I had planned.

All the models are low-poly (about 250 for the Indian Boy) with low-res textures. The animation had to be quite quick and snappy to be playable in the game engine. The team was made up of 4 programmers and myself responsible for all the artwork, models and animation. Everyone in the team had no experience of game development before and we created a simple game demo in 8 weeks!

I made a mini website to promote our game and allow people to download it here:
Indian Adventure