Current demo reel

I’ve added my current demo reel to the site. It’s a showcase of work I did on Being Ian Season 4. I’ve also included some work I did during my time at Capilano College. Being Ian is copyright to Studio B Productions.

Demo Reel from Danny Elliott on Vimeo.
Download a QuickTime version. (864×486, 30.8mb)

Shot List:

00:00 - 00:24
Being Ian, Season 4, Episode 55: Blah Blah Blog. I modeled, textured, and animated the scenes in Maya. The rendered layers were then taken into Flash where one of the awesome animators at Studio B handeled the character animation.

00:24 - 00:31
Being Ian, Season 4, Episode 54: Midnight Madness. I did the modeling and animation for the cars and trash cans in these scenes. The backgrounds were created in Photoshop by one of our layout artists which I used to match up the maya animation. The final animation was then rendered out using Maya Vector and imported into Flash as an swf file.

00:31 - 00:40
Being Ian, Season 4, Episode 55: Blah Blah Blog. Modeling, texture, and animation.

00:40 - 00:53
Being Ian, Season 4, Episode 54: Midnight Madness. Modeling and animation for the cars and trash.

00:53 - 00:59
Video game level for Unreal Tournament 2004. All of the assests were created in Maya and then imported into the Unreal editor where the level was then lit and special effects (such as water) were added.

00:59 - 01:01
An environment that I modeled, textured, and lit in maya.

01:01 - 01:07
Being Ian, Season 4, Episode 55: Blah Blah Blog. Modeling, texture, and animation.

01:07 - 01:17
Video game level for Unreal Tournament 2004. Modeling, texture, lighting, camera animation.

01:17 - 01:20
Being Ian, Season 4, Episode 55: Blah Blah Blog. Modeling, texture, and animation.

01:20 - 01:34
I wanted to design a creature that would fit with the slight fantasy feeling of my game level so I came up with this guy. Modeling and texturing were done in XSI. I took the medium resolution model into zBrush and also created a normal map to show added detail.

01:34 - 01:38
Being Ian, Season 4, Episode 61: That’s Ridonkulous. Modeling, texture, and animation.

01:38 - 01:49
Video game level for Unreal Tournament 2004. Modeling, textures, lighting, camera animation.

Posted by Danno Posted in: Projects No Comments » June 2008

A new direction.

When I was taking 3D animation in college I had my portfolio website here; one that I built with Dreamweaver.  The only problem is I never kept it up to date.  It was a bit of pain cracking the software open, creating new buttons, and so on just to show a new piece of work.  And if I decided I wanted to change the look?  Forget about it…that’s just a major project in itself.  Then this year I was talking with a former instructor of mine and he said most of the Capilano grads were using Blogger to show their work online.  It seemed like a good idea so I swapped out the old site with WordPress.  We’ll see how it goes but I’d like to be able to post work when I want with minimal fuss.

Posted by Danno Posted in: Stuff No Comments » May 2008