Brianne Meyer

2011-07-16T11:27:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

A quick update: I'm now in Los Angeles working for the amazing Psyop!!! And I couldn't be happier about it! I've been here two weeks now and I'm starting to settle into the new life and work. I'm surrounded by incredible artists everyday, and while being a little intimidating, it's also incredibly inspiring!

Not much new to show for the blog, but here are a few quick stills from my thesis:

Thesis is Online!

2011-06-01T15:01:00.000-07:00

Hello hello, and sorry for the year long pause between posts. I have spent most of my waking hours for the past year on a single project, my very own film. All work from the very first story notion, to the animation, to the final composite, was done by yours truly. It has certainly been a long haul, but more than worth it. Please take a look!

Road's End- A Short by Bri Meyer from Bri Meyer on Vimeo.

Porfolio 2010

2010-05-10T16:29:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, below is a link to my current portfolio!

Click here or on the image to download the PDF.

Animation Reel 2010

2010-05-10T15:42:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, below is my current animation reel, with a couple of model turnarounds thrown in on the end. Please view my modeling reel for a more in depth look at those. The link can be found on the side bar, thanks!

Click here to watch a higher resolution version!

1. “The Airfield” Short- November, 2009- Competed in four weeks.
Responsible for: Everything except the rig.
Software: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop, The
Setup Machine (for rigging)

2. Animation Exercises, Waiting/Walking- September, 2009- One week each.
Responsible for: Animation only
Software: Autodesk Maya

3. Emotion Test- February, 2010- Completed in one week.
Responsible for: Everything except the rig.
Software: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop, The Setup Machine

4. “No-Soap’s Land” Short- December, 2008- Completed in four weeks.
Responsible for: Everything
Software: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop

5. “Self-Caricature” Turnaround- February, 2010- Completed in two weeks.
Responsible for: Everything
Software: Autodesk Maya

6. “Sergeant Brant” Turnaround- October, 2009- Completed in two weeks.
Responsible for: Everything
Software: Autodesk Maya

7. “Brant’s Hover Jet” Turnaround- November, 2009- Completed in one week.
Responsible for: Everything
Software: Autodesk Maya

Modeling Reel 2010

2010-05-01T13:09:00.001-07:00

Sorry for the lack of posts this semester. We've been busy!

Below you will find my current modeling reel, and a quick breakdown of the pieces included. Enjoy!

Click here to watch a higher resolution version!

1. “Self-Caricature” Turnaround- February, 2010
Time: Completed in two weeks.
Responsible for: Everything
Software: Autodesk Maya

2. “Sergeant Brant” Turnaround- October, 2009
Time: Completed in two weeks.
Responsible for: Everything
Software: Autodesk Maya

3. “Brant’s Hover Jet” Turnaround- November, 2009
Time: Completed in one week.
Responsible for: Everything
Software: Autodesk Maya

4. “The Airfield” Short- November, 2009- a quick animation with the previous two models.
Time: Competed in four weeks.
Responsible for: Everything except the rig.
Software: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop, The Setup
Machine, Renderman

More Digital Painting!

2009-12-13T12:24:00.001-08:00

Our most recent DFA digital painting!

Animation and Digital Painting

2009-11-20T14:29:00.000-08:00

So I've just completed my first animation with the character I designed and modeled for this semester (see last post).

And here it is! I've also found a better way to compress my videos without losing too much quality, so it shouldn't take as long to load, woohoo!

Click me to watch!

And in other areas, I've finished my first ever digital painting in my Drawing for Animators class. I had a great time with it and I think it came out pretty well. I'd like to revisit it and do a little more with the area around the painting when I find some time, but no major complaints!

To see a high res version and admire every minute brush stroke click here!

Thanks for checking in!

Concept and Character Design

2009-09-25T13:28:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to make up for not posting for months :)

So here's the latest character I've developed, which I'll be using for my next two animations. I'm currently modeling him and his ship, so hopefully some follow up posts to come soon!

And here's an animatic I did on a rather glum story idea... sorry for the downer :)

Animatic: The Door

It was a dark and stormy night... cliche, I know.

Animation Update

2009-09-23T15:11:00.001-07:00

Hey everybody!

Sorry it's been so long since I updated! Here are a few animation exercises for your viewing pleasure:

Walk Cycle
Waiting Exercise

More stuff to come soon! I promise :)

Texturing and Lighting

2009-05-06T08:03:00.000-07:00

A quick look at the last two assignments of the semester. We had about a week for each of these. All the models were provided, we were just responsible for texturing, and lighting them. Also posing the still life models.

I was pretty happy with both overall, though the cemetery could really use some work.

The Still Life: No subsurface scattering or ambient occlusion was allowed. Also, I wound up using depth map shadows as opposed to ray tracing, mostly because I liked the look I was getting, and I loved the time I saved test rendering by turning off the ray tracing attribute.

The Cemetery: I did use ray traced shadows for this one. We had to do two lighting setups, a daytime and a nighttime.

Here's a quick movie file of my daytime lighting on the cemetery. I apologize for the flash of black towards the beginning. When I rendered this one it failed to spit out one of the frames. I just haven't had time to fix it. One day!!

Click me to watch!

Yay Sit-Stand!

2009-04-11T20:01:00.000-07:00

Here it is! Still could use a lot of work; from an animator's point of view a lot of it makes me cringe, haha. But it's done!!!!!

Click me and sit in boredom as I take forever to load! yay!

That other class that I have... but never post anything about.

2009-04-02T14:13:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! Just a quick update: still busy but having fun! Below are a few of my concept development sketches, along with my animatic for a 30 second commercial. Enjoy!

This is the animatic: (it has sound by the way)

Click me to watch!

Sit-Stand Process Work

2009-02-19T12:46:00.000-08:00

I'm back! Actually, I've been back for a while, just too busy to even sleep, much less keep up with a blog. I've finally conquered my mountain of homework that I've been behind on the entire semester, quite literally... so as soon as I'm done posting this I'm going to pass out for about a week and begin the whole catch-up process all over again. This is the life of a CA.

The semester so far has been all process work leading up to our animated short that we will produce in about a month. This is the first time we've worked with a full bi-ped character, and like most things related to animation, it all takes a lot of time. The animated short we will make soon is appropriately titled: the Sit-Stand. Three guesses as to what our characters have to do. Actually, if they had wanted to be perfectly accurate they should have called it the Enter-Sit-Stand-Exit... but that's a mouthfull.

Naturally we have to have a story to go with this, just watching someone sit then stand is a little boring. We began last semester developing a character and situation for the short. Then we started this semester by modeling our character. A quick background: My character is Bert as Ruffus the Dog. He works at a cheap state fair wearing a dog suit from a popular TV show to entertain the kids. He hates his job, but needs the money, therefor he's a glum chap who has to force a smile all the time.

Below is my Character Turn-Around and a screenshot of my modeled character with the wireframe visible for anyone interested in seeing what these things look like in-process. Also visible are the controls for the rig (essentially the skeleton of the character, it's what allows us to move them).

Once we had our characters modeled we began a series of other essential processes to get them ready to animate. Along the way we also began some animation exercises to test our rigs, get us used to the characters, and make sure everything we were doing was working properly. We've also done our first-pass (incomplete) textures. You'll be able to see those in the videos.

Here are the first three animation exercises we've completed, just click on the link to watch them:

The Finger Point
The Walk Cycle
The Turn

That's pretty much what I've got so far! I'll try and keep the blog a little more up-to-date, but no promises!

TA: Dialog Assignment

2008-12-11T08:53:00.000-08:00

After some struggle here's my final for the lip sync project in traditional animation. Unfortunately, Monkey Jam was being weird and not wanting to cooperate with my layers, so sometimes he flickers a little bit.

Click me to watch!!

More Woodburning

2008-12-03T11:19:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, a quick update with a woodburning piece I just finished for my Native Cultures class. The subject was the Trail of Tears.

OMG hyperventilating MUSTANG

2008-11-27T08:24:00.000-08:00

Okay... quick explanation... since it might seem a little odd to some people that I just bought a Mustang. So I've wanted a 60s Mustang since......... well I don't really remember. I think I was eleven or twelve the first time I saw one and knew what it was. After several years of watching prices climb, I had sort of given up on the idea... but ........

I finally got one!!!!!!!! *sob* I'm so haappy *sniffle*

Pics: (it needs work, this is by no means a restored car)

So anyway... this is pretty much one of the happiest days of my life. And for those of you who know what it feels like to want a particular model that badly... you probably know how I feel right now!

Also, for those Mustang people:
1965 C-code Fastback
289 V8 engine
4 speed
matching numbers

Traditional Animation: the Pantomime

2008-11-11T07:14:00.000-08:00

I was starting to wonder if I could finish this on time. : )
My TA work has definitely been suffering a little from all the time I've been pouring into CA, so this isn't as finished as I'd like it to be. It's close enough though.

To watch the animation click here!

Oh, and here's the character model sheet so you know what he looks like. I lengthened his legs for easier animating, but otherwise he's pretty much the same.

3d... without computers : )

2008-11-08T11:12:00.000-08:00

Here's a few pics of the toy project we did last year in 3d (sculpture) class. The toy was a guitar player figurine. His arm was supposed to move... but I ran out of time so Vicky told me to just make it solid. The package design was an amp.

The Penguin... is done.

2008-11-06T19:37:00.000-08:00

After some struggle, the penguin is complete... I was starting to see polys in my dreams... : )

It's still got some bumps and funny spots that are driving me a little nuts, but that's just me being anal-retentive. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it.

To watch the animation click here!

Animation Galore

2008-11-04T22:16:00.000-08:00

So, the real reason I'm in school: animation. Here's the first two animations we've done. It's definitely been interesting getting used to Maya (the 3d software)... she's a fickle beast. I'm pretty happy with how they both turned out though.

The primitive theater assignment:

To see the animation click here!

The ball bounce: (unfortunately I forgot to parent the 3d texture to the basketball... whoops, I'll fix it when I find some free time... if such a thing still exists)

To see the animation click here!

Thanks!

Woodburning!!

2008-11-04T22:10:00.000-08:00

I love woodburning!!!!! Just for relaxing and goofing around it's probably my favorite art form. Here's a piece I did for the family cabin up north (we call it Rock Haven on account of the rocks... go figure).

Random Pieces

2008-11-04T22:00:00.000-08:00

So I guess I'll just give some examples of my work real quick, though unfortunately I don't have much saved on this computer. Here are a few figure pieces from last year.

... and a quick pointillism painting.

Getting Started

2008-11-04T21:45:00.000-08:00

So, I've decided to start blogging... which I should have done a long time ago, but alas... there is such a thing as homework, and I'm currently buried beneath it. Anyway here we go, welcome to my blog!

Brianne Meyer

Thesis is Online!

Porfolio 2010

Animation Reel 2010

Modeling Reel 2010

More Digital Painting!

Animation and Digital Painting

Concept and Character Design

Animation Update

Texturing and Lighting

Yay Sit-Stand!

That other class that I have... but never post anything about.

Sit-Stand Process Work

TA: Dialog Assignment

More Woodburning

OMG *hyperventilating* MUSTANG

Traditional Animation: the Pantomime

3d... without computers : )

The Penguin... is done.

Animation Galore

Woodburning!!

Random Pieces

Getting Started

OMG hyperventilating MUSTANG