Character Animation - The Matrix, The Princess Bride

These are short animations using Blake Rig and audio clips from The Matrix and The Princess Bride.

 

FX Demo Reel - Summer 2012

Footage provided by: Michael Eggert

Music: "Dinner for One" by Amity in Fame

FX Breakdown Updated from Lynn Murphy on Vimeo.

Character Animation - Fight Club

Using the Eleven Rig and an audio clip from Fight Club, I created a short animation in Maya.

Photography

When I took some photographs a few years ago for a multimedia class, I discovered the beauty of imperfection: an old wooden playground with chipped paint and a sun-bleached driver's wheel...

A garbage bin, rusted on the inside; a theater billboard with a few discolored, off-kilter letters...

 

 I was reminded of the phrase, "A picture is worth a thousand words." Everyone has a story: the boys walking briskly to class, coming out of the sun and passing through the shade; the girl staring down at her phone as she walks through the hall...

 The aftermath of a party, or a recycling bin outside a library?

Whose heart was broken?

Visual Effects Breakdown

Footage provided by Michael Eggert
Breakdown - Driving Scene from Lynn Murphy on Vimeo.

CG Model

For my fall semester Intermediate Maya class I had to create a bipedal character in Maya. So I used a character I had sketched out in May.

Her name is Relic Avila. She is an assassin hired by the U.S. government to eliminate terrorists leaders in the year 2071.

After sketching out an action attitude pose and the t-poses, I modeled the character in Maya. Here's the finished product:

Character Turnarounds

Here are some turnarounds for the characters in one of my stories:

This is Casey Caraway, the protagonist of the piece.

This is Lionel Lawrence. 

He's the secondary protagonist.

This is Vincent Wilk. He's the antagonist.

His last name, Wilk, means "wolf" in Polish.