Article and Archaeopteryx Exhibit

For the last 8 month or so I'be been creating a museum exhibit featuring the bird-like dinosaur archaeopteryx as part of my current research, here's an article on the ideas and processes behind it.

https://theconversation.com/flight-of-the-living-dead-how-animation-brings-extinct-species-back-to-life-86737

And here are some pictures of the exhibit itself

The bones assembling into the animal

Flying

Standing

Walk Cycle Creation Time-lapse

This is a recording of my process for animating a walk cycle in Autodesk Maya. I created the video as a tutorial for the animation students of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. At this point in the course the students have already created a walk cycle using 2D, drawn animation so I aim to show a process that follows on from their traditional training. However, I hope this video will also be helpful to other animation students or anyone that is interested in learning more about the computer animation process.



There are quite a lot of pauses, extra camera rotations and general mouse waving as I was talking as I was animating.