This is a simple, simple rig I created for ‘Jöns and the Spider’, a beautiful looking cut-out animation by Margot Tsakiri-Scanatovits and Soyoung Hyun – both studying at the 2nd year of RCA.
This was done for the talended Mr. David Prosser who is working on his 2nd year film now. I was asked to animate these short shots for his film in Photoshop. Only few more weeks to go so all the very best for all the 2nd year people!
These are some shots from my film I am working on now, Ordæmonium. It is about a character who struggles to overcome some of his fears and nightmares and the film is an insight into his state of mind. The film, if all goes well, will be finished by the end of May and hopefully [...]
a.k.a Take Fine Walk in London-town. Finally, after 3 days of solid rain, spring has decided to show its face and I certainly couldn’t resist to taking this great opportunity to grab my camcorder instead of my SLR at last, something I wanted to do – and probably should do more often. This is only [...]
I was inspired to have some experiments after reading about Chaos theory (about dynamical systems that depend highly upon the initial conditions and the consequent unpredictability of the results – often referred to as Butterfly Effect). I wanted to try to recreate a self-organising (pattern creating) behaviour by setting up a visual feedback loop. The [...]
This is our contribution to the image workshop. Shot with a Rostrum camera on 16mm film. Credits: Laurence Weedy (putting stuff on the table) Gergely Wootsch (pushing buttons) David Dixon (technical stuff, lightbulb replacement) Joe King. Property of Royal College of Art, London.
The sequence is a series of film strips shot with my Canon AE-1, I scanned strips in and finished the job off with Digital Fusion. I shot stills of neon lights, a book, and handrails at the Victoria Dock in London with multiple exposures.
I was working on the preproduction of the ident of the 2010 Animex festival with the guys from the Wishing Well Animation studio run by Ben Klimmek and Lars Ellingbo. Preplanning and rigging the main character were some of my main duties. Here is a snippet from the storyboard:
This is the showreel we had to submit for our group project. Not happy with it at all, but it was the last thing I had to deliver this year. For this reason, I was more than happy to finally finish uni. In case you are wondering, the music is Dave Matthews. Also, see the [...]
Probably this is the last update, as it is time to hand my final year project in. The next two or three weeks will be another though run to finish Creative Animation, Studio Practice and Business and Drawing and Composition. At the moment I have no idea how I will do it, but hopefully I [...]
It is somehow amazing how many mistakes you can make. It feels very much like if I was working to create problems that I can solve later on. There is a huge number of render and lighting inconsistency even I only have 15 scenes rendered so far, not even mentioning animation issues, etc. I am [...]
This is only ruff cut, ruff timing, ruff animation blocking. Probably only the cut of the guy standing up is final animation. I have more scenes blocked out however, those are not connected to this sequence. Will upload them later. Pseudo-final render-still / semi-finished lighting
This is a character turnaround anf an early sketch.
Rigging. I’m pretty happy with my rig, it can do all I need, it only misses the auto-animate button. I have come up with a way to properly rig the eyes, including the surrounding skin (that moves with the eye naturally). I was struggling with it a lot, as the whole system kept conflicting with [...]
NOTE: THIS PORTFOLIO IS OUTDATED. MASSIVELY. The portfolio I kindly submitted to the Royal College of Art’s animation department for my masters.
Concept Development Animatic from Gergely Wootsch on Vimeo. 2D Character Animation ICA from Gergely Wootsch on Vimeo. 2D Computer Animation ICA – Rooftop Chase from Gergely Wootsch on Vimeo. Character Animation ICA – Alien from Gergely Wootsch on Vimeo. Character Aanimation ICA – The Fred Astaire Dance – UNFINISHED from Gergely Wootsch on Vimeo. Computer [...]
I’ve been practicing character rigging to be able to create a good rig later on for my practical project. Here it is, Edmond, my updated 2nd year character. Currently he has a sretchy fk/ik arm with switch and soft IK; complete facial rig; non twisting, snapping shoulders; stretchy IK legs with footroll and multiple rotation [...]