My Animation Reel

My animation reel. I will constantly be updating this.


Tina Hsu character animation reel from Tina Hsu on Vimeo.
00:02-00:23 Stop motion character animation
00:24-01:05 2D character animation

The box

My first stop motion piece!

Made this in a stop motion class in 2012 summer.

BGM from Maoudamashii

maoudamashii.jokersounds.com/

I made everything else from scratch with help from my professor,

the school lab and my classmates.

Stopmotion Animation: The Box from Tina Hsu on Vimeo.

The design sketch

Puppet turnaround

Some progress photos and still frames

Little suit jacket

A little suit jacket I sewed together for a collaborative project spring 2013, and my glove is modeling for me.

It is made from given pattern and materiel, part machine sewing and part hand sewing. All the edges have wire in it.

Personally I find the fabric on the thick side for something this small, but perhaps there is a reason for it. So far it has been a very interesting learning experience and I hope I will get better at it.

Marquette sculpture

This is a sculpt I made in summer 2011 as part of the character design process for my MFA thesis film that I am working on. Her model changed a lot during the process, but the maquette is still very useful when I animate.

I need to document the other character as well.

Animation cleanup stills

I figure I never post my animation drawings although this is what I do 90% of my time. This sequence is her walking into her kitchen while stuffing her face with donuts. The lower body is going to be covered by the kitchen counter, thus chopped off in my drawings. What you see in the second image is about 1.5 second worth of animation.

These are cleanup drawings that will then be digitally processed, colored and put into video form. The red tint is the tie-down structural under drawings I do before doing the black line.

Here is another cleanup drawing from a bigger shot I am still working on.
She is on 16 field paper, thus the 5 peg holes that barely fits in the scanner.

And these are cleanup drawings from various shots of the other character.

1-3min gesture studies

Some 1-3 min quick studies for pose/gestures.

Male

 

Female

Clothed figure

5 min characterized figures

 

5-20 minute clothed figure

Some Background paintings for my film

Some background paintings from my thesis film. The lineworks are done in marker on paper and colored digitally. These are base paintings that I will go in and adjust the focus/color/lighting when I put everything together.

Location sketches

Location drawing at The Palace of Fine Arts.

 Location drawing at Oigawa Dam, Shizuoka, Japan

 Location drawing at Sawara, Chiba, Japan

Perspective & shadow studies

Body in perspective Study 1

Body in perspective Study 2

Light and shadow pattern

Studies

Some hands, feet and shoes.

Portraits

Some portrait done in 2009-2010