Cowboy Western Character Design

Finally finished the character design for the cowboy western! I will start modeling it tomorrow. I know the registration isn't perfect, but I will likely tweak the proportions once I get a rough model - I wanted to see how it looks in CG before I nailed down the proportions.

This is my first real female character design - hope y'all enjoy!

Mixtape!

I'm working on a character design right now for our proposed Western animation. Should have a sketch dump soon for it. In the meantime, here is the link to my side work: http://soundcloud.com/roryriggins/sets/desert-hills-pt-1/

"Never Cold" is my fav.

Job Hunting & Furniture/Beatmaking

Back on the job hunt post-Family Brain Surge! I have a lot more time without that 3 hour round trip commute, so I found a couple micro hobbies to chill out with after a long day of working on my reel and job hunting: building furniture out of driftwood and writing beats. Wrote this while winding down last night. No, your TV isn't broken, this movie clip is just audio. Enjoy! Now about those taxes...

Website!

I now have an official website! It has all the essentials on it. Thanks to Anthony Nomorosa for the web design!

LINK: http://roryriggins.com/

Updated Reel

Yup, its only been 3 days, but I wanted to put some nicer renders on my reel and change up my shot choice to show a little bit more acting from the thesis film. Enjoy, and comment freely!

Im on You Tube!

Hello again everyone!! It's been an insane ride, but I am wrapping up my internship at Nickelodeon tomorrow, and headed back East for the holidays the day after that. I just set up a youtube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/lionomens

It has the most recent version of my demo reel on there, as of about an hour ago. Heads up, the audio is a little off in the youtube video. The opening piece still needs another pass, but I wanted to get it out there for comments and address some issues with my old reel. The reel will become the focus of my time now that the internship is ending and with it the massive (and successful!) volunteer project all of the interns did. I embedded the video below, as well.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Character Design Full Turns

After an awesome suggestion by Joel during our class meeting last week, I have developed the character design of this space puppy even further. Well, actually its simplified. I really tried to push the straight-against-curve design philosophy.Our next assignment will be to pose the character, which I am totally excited to do. Totally still want to move his legs in a Max Fleischer tube animation style. Should have something to show next week around this time for that. Hope yinz enjoy it!