Disney Infinity Animation Demo Reel

felixbrownSLC · Apr 2016

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 · Apr 2016

Nice work!

felixbrownSLC · Apr 2016

Thanks! I appreciate that

SpaceSteggy · Apr 2016

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

Arturow · Apr 2016

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 · Apr 2016

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

felixbrownSLC · Apr 2016

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 · Apr 2016

That's very cool, Arturo thanks!

felixbrownSLC · Apr 2016

Thanks, Evernier!

jarvin88 · Apr 2016

Nice work! Super fun, the characters are great

NuttyART · Apr 2016

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 · Apr 2016

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>

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

felixbrownSLC · Apr 2016

Thanks! It's been a fun ride so far

felixbrownSLC · Apr 2016

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 · Apr 2016

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 · Apr 2016

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 · Apr 2016

I believe I had about two weeks to get it done

13randO · Apr 2016

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

felixbrownSLC · Apr 2016

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

Disney Infinity Animation Demo Reel

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