Vessel

I've started helping out a couple of ex Pandemic guys on a 2d indie platformer that they're developing which is pretty cool fun. Quite a few of the guys are chipping in to lend a hand from various parts of the world and it should be a great little game once it's done. I can't really show too much since the animation is still in the early stages but this run cycle at least gives you an idea of the style. When more has been implemented I'll try to get a few captures of the gameplay to show it in action.

Vessel Run Cycle from Travis Ramsdale on Vimeo.

I've also been plugging away on the short film for Dancing Squirrel which has been great. I've just finished a 70 second scene for them and I'm about to start working on something else soon. Unfortunately I can't show any of that until it's complete which should be at the end of this year.

Keeping busy...

Ok I had about a week and a half off but I've now started helping the guys out at Dancing Squirrel with some animation for their short film. It's a different kind of animated short and it gives me a good chance to try some serious, gritty type animation which I'm looking forward to. They're a good bunch of guys so it should be fun.

Ich bin arbeitslos... wieder

So here I am without a job once again...and I'm happy to say that it was my choice this time. Well it kind of was last time as well...but whatever. For those of you who don't know I've been working as a tour guide showing people about Munich for the past 2 months or so which has been a stack of fun and a good random experience to boot. But I thought I'd call it quits for now to try and concentrate on learning this crazy German language as well as focus on improving my animation and do a couple of trips while the weather is nice over here. Looks like Stef and I are heading to Spain in a few weeks and who knows where else I might end up.

Anyway there wasn't really a point to this post but I hadn't put anything up for a while and I had some time to kill before I have to head off to school. Not that anyone probably reads this anyway but in any case I'll try to pop something new up in the next week.

See em fly...

So I decided to pop an entry into the 11 Second Club animation competition this month (www.11secondclub.com) I got onto it right at the start of the month and was excited because I loved the audio and it seemed that I had a heap of time to really put some love and attention into it. Well as usual things didn't go to plan and between work, school and moving into a new apartment I simply ran out of time. I still like what I've come up with though and hopefully once things settle down a bit I can put another day or two into it and iron out the clunky bits.

See em fly from Travis Ramsdale on Vimeo.

And one more...

This ones a little longer and was also a lot of fun to do. I got this rig from Ian Jones' website and it was pretty cool once I got used to it. It was great to have a bit more of a play around in Maya as well to refresh my memory on a bunch of stuff.

Taxi reverse parallel park from Travis Ramsdale on Vimeo.

Car animation...

While on the job hunt I came across a company that is looking for someone to animate some vehicles. So since I have this week off school I thought I'd use the time and have some fun doing some car animation. I got this cool little rig from Highend3d. I haven't done much vehicle work before apart from a few things on Saboteur so it was a nice change.

Cartoony car - 180 degree turn from Travis Ramsdale on Vimeo.

Some random drawings I found...

Found some of these drawings that I did while at Pandemic so thought I'd put them up here to give me a rest from german verbs for an hour or so. Sorry about the poor quality but I'd already packed my scanner and my camera was all I had at the time.