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Confidentiality - A Fiery Sprinter Short

Animation I made during my final years of College. This short combines both Hand drawn and puppet rigged animation into one. There's not much of a story but I'd say it's a more technical short since there's a 3D Background. Why? Because I'm a fan of Fleischer's Popeye so the 2D characters in 3D environment combination is a homage to the setback camera Fleischer studios used in the 1930s. 

The 3D coffee may have been a bit too much for my laptop's 16gb of ram at the time so that caused Toon boom to crash several times. 

I talked with a hiring manager from Atomic Cartoons and he wisely told that it's not recommended to render 3D models on Toon Boom due to how heavy it can be for the software, especially for PC's with 4 cores and 16GB ram. Well, I've built a PC which has 32gb of DDR4 ram and an NVDIA RTX 3060 GPU with 12GB of VRAM but I'm still debating whether to do 3d Backgrounds with 2D Characters in it...
I mean, I got 12 cores, 24 threads....

I've recently upgraded from an RTX 3060 GPU to an RTX 4080 GPU.

Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop

CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8 GHZ

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2GB

Tablet: Wacom Intuos BlueTooth Tablet

Animated on Toon Boom Harmony Premium 2020

Minor Compositing via Adobe After Effects 2022

Audio: Todd Rundgren's Time Heals (Coffee Shop Speaker)

Rigs: Olive by Kyu-Bum Lee
        Charlotte by Lizadesya
        Raf by Jordan Beatty

Shasta Run

A piece of animation I did during my freshman year of college. The Assignment was a run, jump, and grab. The original pencil test had Shasta, my OC, grab a falling Sony PS5 because at that time, I wanted a PS5 and back then, they were hard to get due to scalpers. 

I went back to this animation and decided to fix it. Unfortunately, I lost the original adobe animate file so I had to redo it from scratch, this time on Toon Boom Harmony.
Here it is, now in color, added a drybrush blur, and as well as an appearance of the Tardis from Doctor Who.

The PS5 is no longer in the animation due to having finally bought one in March 2021 as well as the shortage subsiding so now it's easy to get a PS5... mostly.

Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop

CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8 GHZ

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050

Tablet: Wacom Intuos for Original Adobe Animate version
          Wacom ONE Creative Pen Display for remaster

Animated on Toon Boom Harmony Premium 2020

Original version animated on Adobe Animate 2021

Olive's Flair

I usually prefer hand-drawn 2D Animation. However, the industry prioritizes puppet rigs over the traditional hand drawn stuff.
Naturally, I gave in and I'm sort of loving it... for the experimentation on acting.

I had an earlier version of this animation from March 2021 but that version had Olive's acting being more stiff so I went back and touched it up as well as going a little overboard by having her hit Scott Pilgrim in the posterior with a bat... OUCH!!!

Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop

CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8 GHZ

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2GB

Tablet: Wacom ONE Creative Pen Display

Animated on Toon Boom Harmony Premium 2020

Audio: Office Space (Joanna's flair flips the bird at her employer)

Rigs: Olive by Kyu-Bum Lee
        Scott Pilgrim by Brian Lee O'Malley

Megumi's Nature Walk

One important thing you should make in animation regardless if it's hand drawn, Puppet-rigged, or 3D, is a walk cycle.
I wasn't going to make a boring old walk cycle on a white background so I decided to spice it up with a multiplane background. I had an earlier version but that wasn't a good enough walk cycle to use for my demo reel so I went back and retouched it.

The Original was made in Adobe Animate but this version was made in Toon Boom Harmony. Plus, I replaced the original generic dude with another OC: Megumi Yoshida.

My only issue was that Megumi's feet kept sliding on the front multiplane layer. Oh well.

(The above description about the sliding feet is outdated as I've updated the animation.)

Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop

CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8 GHZ

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2GB

Tablet: Wacom Intuos for Original Adobe Animate version               Wacom ONE Creative Pen Display for remaster

Animated on Toon Boom Harmony Premium 2020

Original Version animated on Adobe Animate 2020

Hayden's Rebuttal to Delia

I like off-model animation... I don't why I say that but I never understood both the industry's and animation fan's obsession with on-model. A lot of animators will say that off-model is better because it allows for characters maintain fluidity in the acting as well as be more expressive. 
Think REN & STIMPY logic here.

This is mostly off-model. The character of Hayden is on-model but he has boiling outlines, which I miss in 2D animation. 

The background is actually a photograph, which is actually inspired by Ralph Bakshi's use of photos for BGs in his 1970's era movies such as Heavy Traffic, Coonskin, and American Pop.

Computers: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop
                 Lasalle College HP Z440 WorkStation 

CPU: (Home) Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8 GHZ
        (School) Intel Xeon 3.5GHZ

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (MSI Laptop)
         Nvidia GeForce GTX 980(HP Z440 Workstation)

Tablet: Wacom One Creative Display for majority
          School's 24" Wacom Cintiq used for fine tuning

Animated on Toon Boom Harmony Premium 2020

Audio: Tommy Boy (He seems like a nice guy)

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