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I had to make a short documentary for a second year module on my course so I chose to do it on mental health. This is a topic that is very close to my heart. I hope that you enjoy it. Please share it because I think that it is a very important message that I want more people to talk about.

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Quick video of a little character animation i did using a rig given to me by my tutor and made on 3ds Max

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A Character design that I did for my university coursework based on a photo of my dad from when he was younger.

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Attempt at a run cycle from last year at university that I have only just gotten around to posting. Definitely not perfect and not happy with it at all, but hoping to make vast improvements during my second year of uni.

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Another quick sketch from Richard Williams’ Animator’s Survival Kit

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Here is my first attempt at animating a CGI character walk cycle. I made the model myself and there are masses of things wrong with it and I honestly think it’s terrible but I’m posting it anyway.

Please ignore its eyes, I know it looks possessed!

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Last emotion animation: Aggression

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Second lot of animated emotions: Comfort

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At university we got given an emotion and had to work in groups to animate a sequence that expressed it.

Here is Surprise!

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Two quick drawings based on the brilliant Richard Williams’. From his book The Animator’s Survival Kit

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Something a bit different but here is the short film ‘GIRLS’. It was made for The Colour Network and I was lucky enough to get the chance to be a boom operator!

Hope you like it!