Stephen van Wyk

Character animation focused CG artist based in Nashville, TN. These are some of the projects I've worked on in a few different roles, but I'm always upping my character game whenever I can. Character Animation [email protected]

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The demo reel

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So this just got released. A teaser for a tv show concept currently being shopped around by IV Studio. I did a few things on this from shot layout to modelling and a touch of rigging (a very small touch). Also, it’s rendered in Unity and looks rather dope.

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One of a series of ads I was involved in at IV Studio for Nike and House of Hoops. My role consisted of scene and initial camera layout as well as initial key poses on the characters.

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A trailer for a book currently being written by Micheal Cribbs that was produced and made  at IV.  My role on this was fairly broad, I animated and tweaked existing animation on the airplanes in Element 3D, I did camera animation  as well as background animation and some of the effects. This project was a total blast to work on.

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A Christmas greeting video I worked on for Medhost. After receiving the storyboards I gathered various rigs and assets from previous projects and modelled additional ones as needed. I was also responsible for all the shot setups and animation and well as rendering and compositing. It was fun being able to take a smaller scale project and run with it, stressful at times sure, but the fun kind of stress.

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A TVC I was involved in at Motif. It was a couple of firsts for me. After sourcing assets I did camera tracking, some lighting as well as camera mapping on the CG backgrounds.

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One of 7 episodes I did previz work on over at Sunrise Productions. This included camera placement and animation as well as key poses on the characters and props. I also got to have a brief taste of what it was like in writers room which was really fun!

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Oh how’d that get there? Seriously though, incredibly fun piece to work on, and a really good show!

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League of Legends cinematic that I did character animation on.

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A commercial I worked on in July/August 2013. My work in the TVC included modelling, layout and secondary animation.

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Our final year short film. It went on to win a Gold Medal at the New York Festivals and the Cortoons Festival Prize at the My Wall International Animation Contest.

I animated certain shots, blocked out all of the male character’s shots, I helped out with skinning, researched and implemented a method of using Ncloth, I worked on the cinematography, I created the first pre-vis, I modeled the male character’s clothing, did a bit of After Effects animation and performed general fixes.