Child No More (videogame thesis)
All Animations/Animal Concepts
January 2016- August 2016
A 3D story-driven adventure game that emphasizes the consequences of a child’s loss of innocence. The player controls two animal companions as they help a young girl named Arya survive her now war torn home.
Done in a 15 member team with a mix of hand keyed animations and motion capture. Made in Unreal Engine 4.
Key Contributions
12 Handkeyed Quadruped Animations • 22 Motion Capture Animations for Arya and Soldier
Directed 3 Motion Capture Sessions. Camera Setup, Suiting Up, and Instructing Actors • Animations from Maya to UE4
Starshot (prototype)
All Animations/Rigging
Fall 2016
MOBA-like bullet-hell featuring animal characters playing a soccer-like sport.
Made in Unreal Engine 4.
Key Contributions
Rigged and Animated the Fox and Deer characters
Gameplay
Rig Demonstration
Rapid Prototype Games (2 week projects)
Animations/Concepts/Art Assets
August 2015- December 2015
Lost in the Forest (Game 2)
Candy Trap (Game 1)
Description:
Play as a frog baiting ants with candy. Either jump on the ants or eat them to rally up a score. Periodically a Queen Ant will appear with a special power ant. This effect ranges from big ants that can steal multiple candy, smaller ants with greater speed, or red ants that come in hoards. How many ants can you get before the pile is gone?
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Made in Adobe Flash
Key Contributions:
Provided character concepts for the frog, ants, and queen. Animated ants and Queen. Provided minor assets like score board signs.
DEVELOPMENT TEAM:
Krishna Mehta, Victor Viglianti, Kishor Deshmukh, Samantha Mohr, Tamara Corbett
Description:
Play as Ada, a small fairy that must face against her fear of thunder and the threat of the elements as she brings a life saving berry to her village.
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Made in Unity
Key Contributions:
Provided character concepts for main characters.
Animated main character.
Kauldron (Game 3)
Major Ursa (Game 4)
Description:
The Witch’s cat locked her out of her own home and ripped up her spellbook! Fortunately, the resourceful Witch can collect items nearby and use recipies from scattered spell book pages to brew potions and find a way to get back inside.
Kauldron is a 2D Adventure game that has multiple solutions that reward the player for experimenting with the the four potions: Growth, Animate, Explode, and Levitate.
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Made in Unity.
Key Contributions:
All art assets and animations.
DEVELOPMENT TEAM:
Carmen Askerneese, Ben Fletcher, Jared Brown, Will Bahnmiller, Samantha Mohr
Description:
When the the Evil Salmon Armada invades Bearspace, Major Ursa must take to the skies to defend her homeworld! In this mobile take on the classic shoot-'em-up genre, players narrowly dodge fishy bullets by tilting their phone side-to-side, select between four distinct bear-based weapons all utilizing different types of touch-input, face off against four unique enemies, and take down a massive final boss!
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Made in Unity for mobile play.
Key Contributions:
Provided concepts and art assets for jellyfish, yellow fish, blue fish, and boss fish. Provided attack assets.
DEVELOPMENT TEAM:
Matthew Owens, Agnesa Belegu, Alexander Stopar, Katie Freeman, Samantha Mohr
Enchanted Ink (student short film)
2D/3D Animator, Prop Models/Textures
August 2013 - May 2015
An award winning 2D/3D hybrid animated student short film about a young girl named May who learns how to bring words to life and must face off against one of her accidental creations. 14 member artist team. Made in Maya.
Key Contributions
3D animator for father and daughter • Animated props like opening flower
Cleaned and colored 2d animation of dog and lion • Modeled and UV mapped poppy and pottery props
Textured inkwell and pottery
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Winner Award of Merit Special Mention 2015 Best Shorts Competition
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Winner Best Animation Film (Student) 2015 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards
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Winner Presiden’t Award 2015 North Carolina Film Award
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Winner Award of Merit of the 2015 IndieFEST Film Awards
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Nominee of the September 2015 The Monthly Film Festival
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Finalist Best Student Film 2015 Central Florida Film Festival
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Finalist The Florida Selection Award 2015 Central Florida Film Festival
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Official Selection of the 2015 IN.S.A.N.E. Animation Film Festival (Sweden)
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Official Selection of the 2015 Los Angeles Cinefest
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Official Selection of the 2016 Irvine International Film Festival
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Official Selection of the August 2015 The Monthly Film Festival
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Official Selection of the 2015 Queen City Film Festival
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Official Selection of the 2015 Fargo Fantastic Film Festival 13
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Official Selection of the 2015 North Carolina Film Awards
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Official Selection of the September 2015 Film Slam Enzian Theatere
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Official Selection of the 2015 15 Minutes of Fame in Florida
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Official Selection of the 2015 Orlando Film Festival
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Official Selection of the 2015 Miami Independent Film Festival
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Official Selection of the 2015 Enzian Film Slam
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Official Selection of the 2015 International Peace and Film Festival