Puppet Scene - Keyframes

These are the keyframes for my section of the group's animation, where Mitzie is trying for the second time to warn Tea of Gabriel's intentions.

After the keyframes, I animated Mitzie's skeleton. After this step is to fill out the character.

RIP's Interview

First attempt at lip syncing, done for my animation class. I partnered up with Amanda Freeman, who I interviewed and used to voice the character. The character herself belongs to Amanda.

Done in Adobe Photoshop Cs4 and After Effects

Choreography

And here's the finished product for my Motion Graphics class with Karni. Collaborated with a partner, she animated the text while I animated the creature. The song isn't mine either, but... I don't remember what it's called or where to find it (partner found it and picked it). 

Done in Photoshop and Adobe After Effects
~Weird Hyenas

Karni(the creature) - belongs to me. 

Gabriel VonLark

Gabriel Character Sheet

Gabriel VonLark is an old fashioned, 18th century themed serial killer. He's 34 years old, owner of a small fortune he received after his wealthy parents were brutally murdered. As a child, he was a quiet one that kept to himself unless he desired something, which he could easily manipulate others. He appeared bored during his childhood, the schools dubbed the child a genius far beyond those in his class. Bored, until he heard of the Black Dalia murders. This woke something sinister in the boy, he was then driven by an irrational thirst for causing others suffering, he began his life with killing animals, all but kittens and cats (for some strange reason, he could never kill them, secretly, he loves cats).

As a young boy, he and his father would go hunting for foxes, deer, elk, bear, cougars, just about anything they could skin. Gabe took immense pleasure in the skinning and gutting of the animals. Once he hit 13, he grew weary of his parents and wanted to try his hand at the ultimate prey, humans. Never caught for his parents murder due to his genius, Gabe was taken in by his grandparents, who paid maids to care for him. With this, Gabe then went on to college, majoring in anatomy and biology. Gabe had every intent to continue with his killings, but he needed a face to play in front of society so he could play. Excelling in college, Gabriel became head doctor in St. Ophin's  hospital and during his off-time professor at whatever college wanted him. Too focused on his goal, Gabriel only dated women to satisfy his needs. The only family he has now is his cat, Noire, a thin framed black cat with large, green eyes.

Once he settled his place, Gabriel began to plan his long awaited string of killings. Wishing to rival that of the Black Dalia murderer, Gabe spent years developing schemes and plans to go down as the worlds most infamous serial killer in American history. To get himself ready for this plan, he has began murdering people as trail and error type of scenarios. Not once has he been caught, of course. Gabriel stalks (often innocent) victims, kidnaps them, and tortures them in his personal torture chamber where he uses the victim's minds to bring fear, and numerous weapons to bring them suffering. He asks them questions while he tortures/kills them, asking what he has done to make them scared, and what he could do better for the next 'toy'.

Gabriel : "Pardon me, miss. Don't think of me strange for asking this, but can you please tell me why you are so afraid of me? Is it my knives? Maybe my voice? Do you think, perhaps, that if you never saw my face, would you be far more scared? Please critique me, miss, I desire it."

Female Victim : (currently tied down on stretcher) "F*ck you! You're f*cking crazy!!!"

Gabriel : "As flattering as your compliments are miss, they are unhelpful." (pulls out hunting knife). "I'd rather not reduce you to an unadioable  specimen. I will ask you one more time... Please offer me critique."

His personal taste in killings are young woman, but he keeps an open mind and kills different types of people to 'satisfy his taste for personalities'. He believes himself to be smooth with the ladies, but that's not exactly true. His posture reflects his ego, Gabriel is quite full of himself and never thinks he will or could be bested by his victims or others. He thinks this for reason, however, due to his skill and hierarchy, he's gotten away with damn near everything he's gone after. Despite the seriousness of his character, Gabriel can be very expressive, sometimes in a silly sense when taken by surprise. He's very calm, suave, and quite predatory in his movements. He watches people like a lion watches a wounded zebra. People sometimes avoid him, while others are drawn to his genius and crave for his approval, which he rarely if ever hands out.

Inspirations

Jack the Ripper (Time Period, Murderer)

Murdoc Niccals (Gorillaz, Sickly Look)

Hannibal Lector (Posture, Way of Speaking)

~Weird Hyenas

Karni Concept Design #1

I should really keep this thing updated. I haven't even looked at it since my final sophomore project. Eekers.

Here's a concept sketch of a character that'll appear in an animation short for my Motion Graphics class. Meet Karni, a playful get horrific creature with a childish personality. Her inpiration came from two sources; Dead Space and Silent Hill 3, both awesomely scary games. Her name, Karni, derives from the carnival-type music she'll be animated to.

The body was inpired by the Leaper necromorph from Dead Space (1 &2), I believe that's what they're called. Really creepy, fast creatures. Just love 'em!

The color scheme inspiration is more abstract, but from the carosel scene in Silent Hill 3. Another really scary game, and this scene really urked me when I saw it. Karni's main body are the colors that the carosel horses were, and her cat face and tail jewel are colored after the main parts of the carosel itself.

This may not be Karni's final design. We'll see.

Amygdala

Hm, Blogger actually let me upload something. Sweet.

Okay first off, SORRY DOUG! I tried making it 720x480, but it reeeeeally stretched everything out and made it look like fecal matter.  x(

My completed yet not completed animation for the final. I unfortunately couldn't finish it, most likely because I bit off more than I could chew. I think. I also couldn't figure out what do to for the longest time, and ended up animating random scenes of my demoness Weird interacting with a friend's succubus character, Julie. Things just went from there.

However I didn't want this animation to be half-assed or too short. I felt that this semester my animations were weak and didn't really express what I could do. So, for this animation, I wanted to do something that forced myself to branch out and challenge my talents. Probably another reason why it's not finished; I was too fixated on some scenes.

Even though it's not completely finished, this is probably my favorite animation I've made yet. Thanks to my boyfriend for spending the time to make the music himself, and to my friend Jessica for allowing me to animate her succubus.

~Weird

Stop Motion Attempts