A Clip in Time Saves 9 From Outerspace:

As I said in yesterday`s post I am uploading a lot of animation clips for my online resume. Here is a clip from one of the files that has already up loaded. It is from an unpublished game I worked on a few years ago.



A lot of the animation I do falls into that area of Special Effects. I started my career right out of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Arts by getting into real world Special Effects for slasher flicks; blood pumps, prosthetics, dental acrylic fangs, latex monster suits and body parts, Computer Driven Animatronics, go motion and stop motion animation and the like.

It seems that I have been doing Effects Animation of one kind or another since the early 80s. In the 90s I got into computer animation and most of the stuff I do on the computer has a major element of effects or effects and environment for blue screened stop motion.

This clip is a lot of fun. An alien spaceship hiding in the Asteroids as enemy aliens blast away with lasers. The hard part of this clip was animating the spaceship threading its way through a Particle System asteroid field. There are a number of layers to the asteroids. The laser blasts were fun and easy but the asteroids were killer.