John Seldon

12th is the new 1st??

2011-11-06T16:26:00.000-08:00

This was my 11 second club entry for october. I'm glad to say it done pretty well :) Could have done with a bit more work but i'm happy with the outcome in general.

Ninja Norman Vs Spiderbot WIP 2

2011-10-02T11:43:00.001-07:00

More progress on my ninja spiderbot thingy..Loads more stuff to be done, including finishing it so i must plow on with it

Ninja Norman Vs Spiderbot WIP

2011-08-24T13:38:00.000-07:00

This is something i've started working on the last couple o' days. Done a quick render of what I've done so far. Still got a lot to do, and finish it off. Put some fancy stuff in there or something. Just hope i finish it and don't get too bored. We'll see... KAPOW!!!

Ninja Norman V Spiderbot WIP from John Seldon on Vimeo.

Done!! It's finally rendered...

2011-06-23T09:43:00.000-07:00

After about 4 days of trying, i've finally manages to render this bad boy, which means i can put it to rest and move on. I did enjoy this piece, but have grown to loathe it slightly. Enjoyed animating it though. Happy with the outcome, hopefully the next piece will be better, since i'm learning egg loads from doing these!! Anyways..

update!

2011-06-09T07:37:00.000-07:00

An update on the animation i've been doing. Few more tweaks here n there then i'll render it n leave it be for the time being.

Next!? button WIP

2011-06-02T05:45:00.000-07:00

Nothing to do with buttons. This is a section of an animation i started last week. The audio is from Benjamin Button, and its about 22 seconds long. This is the first 8 seconds of it, still in early stages.

Kapow!

Morpheus walk cycle

2011-05-17T08:59:00.000-07:00

A walk cycle with Morpheus. Done it a while ago, but didn't get around to posting it..Until now!
Made a few little changes to it too

Morpheus can be found by here http://www.joshburton.com/projects/morpheus.asp

11 Second club April

2011-05-01T09:07:00.000-07:00

Decided to have crack at this months competition. This time I really got into it but didn't get to finish it, also changed it slightly with a week to go. Fairly happy with it, not having done character animation like this for a while, there's a few things that i wish i tidied up before entering, especially the last half, but due to technical difficulties I didn't get to do it. Also next time i'll use my video reference a lot more. But enjoyed it, happy with it, liked doing lip sync, look forward to doing more.

Quick lip sync

2011-04-03T04:06:00.000-07:00

Here's a little bit of animation to March's 11 second club sound clip. I initially planned to take part in the competition but through the blocking stage lost interest in what i was doing. I didn't like what i had blocked out n decided to leave it. I picked it back up last week and forced myself to continue with what i had blocked out and i couldn't stop. It's my first bit of lip sync in years im afraid but it was great getting into it. Hopefully i'll be doing more soon. Anyways here it is :)

Safe platforms??

2011-01-31T13:33:00.000-08:00

So this is an animation i have been working on in bits over the last say, 2 weeks. There's a fair few things that could still be done but i feel i've given it more than enough attention. The point of this was to sort of explore the changing of state in the character, and throw in some comedy cartoon timing. Again there is still things that need work on, i dont feel i have pushed it far enough but i've got some good stuff out of it. Anyways.

Another maya venture...

2011-01-20T14:36:00.000-08:00

So this is a little something i've done with the joe rig by mike urbanek. lot's of fun to play with so i've started another, much longer, animation piece using him. trying out a different, more cartoony, style to what i'm normally used to in work and what i've done in the past. Anyways...

2011-01-04T14:51:00.000-08:00

Had a play with the rig that's being put together over on the 11 second club site. Them guys are doing a well good job, It's looking really good n it's fun to animate with. Spent a couple of hours doing this before christmas, only now decided to upload it. Hopefully will get another opportunity to animate it..

Crazy woman getting her strop on...

2010-12-11T16:25:00.000-08:00

Another little something I done over the last couple of days, wasn't really planned out, just started with the initial pose n went from there. bit naughty but not an awful lot of time to plan anything out. But i plan to very soon. Plan to plan, anyways, took a couple of hours over 2 days, yet to jump in the graph editor n fiddle with the curves. Might do more with it, might not. Err yeah, pow...

Update and horse animation

2010-12-08T15:41:00.000-08:00

Actually gonna start posting again, with a little update and something i had a crack at a while back.

So been in nottingham, England for over a year now, at Crytek, and it's been swell to say the least. Still can't believe my luck working on such a big title, for such a big company. Been hard work getting things done, long hours, but it'll be worth it when the game comes out. So that's all cracking :)

Haven't done much animation really outside of work so i need to get back in the swing of things. Try to get my skills up, and get reacquinted with maya. So i had a swing at a horse strut. Not the best animation, but got me back into using maya, and trying something different, though, slightly boring...anyways

A walk cycle with a gun

2009-08-04T14:46:00.000-07:00

Another day, another bit of animation. Trying to get re-acquianted with max. took a couple of hours to do. Although its just a walk cycle i did enjoy varying it up a bit with the gun an' all.

New showreel

2009-07-31T05:40:00.000-07:00

an updated showreel with some cycles i've been working on.

Backflip animation

2009-06-22T07:01:00.000-07:00

Ok so im gonna be going post crazy these next few months, so heres another one.
It's a backflip obviously,took a couple of hours. I added motion blur to it,havent done this to any of my previous aniations so i was curious about the results. I found the reference on bbcmotiongallery website,excellent site.
anyways check it out.

walk cycle

2009-06-18T18:49:00.000-07:00

This is a new walk cycle i've been working on, took me a couple of hours to do.

My disappearing stage 3

2009-06-09T04:59:00.000-07:00

This is an animation that was meant to part of my major project. and after slaving for the last week to get as much as i could done,cos i had to start again, i forgot to hand it in! anyways i kinda like this one, i think its cos of the model. It needs more work, want to do more with the tail But anyways..oh and uhhh ignore the floor!

"Squirrely" by Josh Burton

finally...

2009-06-07T06:19:00.000-07:00

..my showreel!! zang!
the quality is low but this is all i cud do to get it on

glammies showreel 2009

2009-06-06T12:13:00.000-07:00

well its not uploading so ill try again tomorrow!!

glammies showreel

2009-06-06T05:07:00.000-07:00

This is my showreel i worked on to get into the glammies. i got nominated for best cg which was awesome! even though i didnt win i was well chuffed to be nominated,but congrats to jamie who did win it, well deserved. anyways i digress, it took a long time to get done, im not overly happy with it, but gonna take a bit of down time, then work on more stuff to have a better showreel to send out!!anyways here you are!

Motionbuilder

2009-03-16T03:45:00.000-07:00

This was a motionbuilder project we had done at the beginning of the year, quite an interesting bit of software, but not as fun as keying out your own animation.
These quadraped sequences we had to key out ourselves, then adjust them according to its mood, here ive put on the sad and happy ones!

2009-03-10T06:59:00.000-07:00

This is the work im doing at the minute, still needs a lot of work but this where im at so far. Will update it as soon as i got better stuff to show. Its on its way though

2009-03-10T06:38:00.000-07:00

This was a bit of animation i did over the summer last year, for the 11 second club competition, which did ok. fun to do mind, cool sound clip twas.

First post thingy!!

2009-01-19T11:41:00.000-08:00

well thought i may as well start posting something then since im on here like.
a walk cycle i did over christmas to keep animating since we'd been doing pre production work for what seemed to be ages!! i kinda wish i did it without the camera spin though, makes me a little sick!