PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL Animated Intro Competition

This was my entry for the Portobello Film Festival Animated Intro competition . I was responsible for the animation and my colleague modelled and rigged the character.

We were the winners of the competition and here it is:

Here's a bit behind the process of creating this animation.

Preliminary ideas

Rough animatic..

This is a process that I've learned from Jason Ryan, it really helps to do a rough 2D pass before starting animating with all of those controls in Maya..

Rough Animation

Video reference