Disney Infinity Animation Demo Reel

felixbrownSLC

Various cinematic and in-game animation from the Disney Infinity franchise 1-3 using light game rigs animated in MAYA. I'm responsible for all character animation. Thanks for watching

https://vimeo.com/161248812

beefaroni

Nice work!

felixbrownSLC

Thanks!  I appreciate that 

SpaceSteggy

These look awesome! I think I like the end the most, the interaction between Mr. Incredible and Jessie. 

Arturow

wow those look so cool!!! I don't play the game but I buy the figures!!! my last one is that darth maul :P

EVernier

Never played, but I love the animations in this game. Good job!

felixbrownSLC

Thanks, SpaceSteggy! That was a fun one trying to think of some interesting way for the two of them to interact while staying in character

felixbrownSLC

That's very cool, Arturo thanks!

felixbrownSLC

Thanks, Evernier!

jarvin88

Nice work! Super fun, the characters are great

NuttyART

Nice work!
I have a question.
When you had to animate a fight between kylo ren vs rey, creation of chereograpy was also your task or they gave you a story-board?

felixbrownSLC

NuttyART said:

Nice work!
I have a question.
When you had to animate a fight between kylo ren vs rey, creation of chereograpy was also your task or they gave you a story-board?

Thanks! The crazy thing is,  for that shot I had about zero reference.  It was basically a premise (lightsaber duel in the snow) and the slightest of character descriptions (he's a bit out of control and bad, she's a bit inexperienced but good) 
The rest was all my imagination <span></span>

I don't think I answered your question though. Hold on a few,  I'll post how it went down

felixbrownSLC

Thanks! It's been a fun ride so far

felixbrownSLC

felixbrownSLC said:

NuttyART said:

Nice work!
I have a question.
When you had to animate a fight between kylo ren vs rey, creation of chereograpy was also your task or they gave you a story-board?

Thanks! The crazy thing is,  for that shot I had about zero reference.  It was basically a premise (lightsaber duel in the snow) and the slightest of character descriptions (he's a bit out of control and bad, she's a bit inexperienced but good) 
The rest was all my imagination <span></span>

I don't think I answered your question though. Hold on a few,  I'll post how it went down

So I had a story-board but it didn't have any choreography, just action type poses. The actual "ballet of violence" was up to me. 

  I had the initial frame range determined by the rotating camera speed. I thumb-nailed and shot reference of several interesting attacks and counter attacks. 

  I intentionally varied the attacks with breaks in between to avoid it feeling too even. I then played with the camera rotation speed to get the best poses in front of the camera while getting the best composition as possible.

Hope I explained it okay 

NuttyART

felixbrownSLC said:

So I had a story-board but it didn't have any choreography, just action type poses. The actual "ballet of violence" was up to me. 

  I had the initial frame range determined by the rotating camera speed. I thumb-nailed and shot reference of several interesting attacks and counter attacks. 

  I intentionally varied the attacks with breaks in between to avoid it feeling too even. I then played with the camera rotation speed to get the best poses in front of the camera while getting the best composition as possible.

Hope I explained it okay 

Yeah, thank you, that's pretty interesting how workflow looks in a professional brands.
And how long did it take you to animate such a fight?

felixbrownSLC

NuttyART said:

felixbrownSLC said:

So I had a story-board but it didn't have any choreography, just action type poses. The actual "ballet of violence" was up to me. 

  I had the initial frame range determined by the rotating camera speed. I thumb-nailed and shot reference of several interesting attacks and counter attacks. 

  I intentionally varied the attacks with breaks in between to avoid it feeling too even. I then played with the camera rotation speed to get the best poses in front of the camera while getting the best composition as possible.

Hope I explained it okay 

Yeah, thank you, that's pretty interesting how workflow looks in a professional brands.
And how long did it take you to animate such a fight?

felixbrownSLC

I believe I had about two weeks to get it done 

13randO

That was all fantastic, but I particularly love the last shot with Mr. Incredible and Jessie. Just brilliant. 

felixbrownSLC

13randO said:

That was all fantastic, but I particularly love the last shot with Mr. Incredible and Jessie. Just brilliant. 

Thank you! I appreciate that.  That was a particularly fun piece in that I had the freedom to not only animate the shot,  but I came up with the concept itself. Finding an entertaining collaboration between these two characters was great