I created a game to insert in to my final presentation for my 2d animation class because I found out i was missing some things for the final.  This is a simple little little game. you're a robot samurai and you fight stuff. Right now it's only one level and the battle system is very basic.

But I would like to make the fighting a little more complex, add leveling up after fights and of course, make more monsters with smarter AI. Time constraints limited me from doing those things. I'm  happy with what I've got so far, I built this from scratch in 4 days, so I feel that's pretty good for being a flash novice.  The monster's behavior is based off a random number generator, so basically when a number comes up, he has a behavior assigned to that number and performs the animation to coincide with it.  

I think I was probably very influenced by games like final fantasy 1-5, chrono trigger, and other old school rpg's in the way the battle system works and with where I would like it to go.  By the way, that's my school in the background there.  click on the picture and you'll go to my portfolio site where you can play this.

After many sleepless nights and a semester of trying to figure out AS3, I'm just about done. I finished my final for my 2d animation class. It's a flash based application which loads my other class projects externally and is a display of my skills learned over the semester.

I tried to think out of the box with this one, instead of having a static menu and a view screen, I tried to create a little environment for the user to interact with. I illustrated everything in what I consider "my style", influenced by artists like M.C.Escher, Albrecht Duurer, Todd Mcfarlane, and R.Crumb. I love lots of contrast in the use of creating shadow and form. I also attempted to add many little subtle nuances such as a blur on object as the come into view, to give the effect of speed and motion.

Also fading out background elements when a selection is made to direct focus and get rid of background distractions. I tried to add little "easter eggs" in on some background elements just for fun. I would have liked to add more but there are time constraints and I do have other projects to do also.

I also had to do more action script programming than previous projects to have an added level of interactivity. I had a big problem with my earlier projects creating bugs when loaded into my final. Because the beginner projects were so rudimentary, much of the sound and script in it had to be reworked. I spent a couple days banging my head against a wall trying to figure out were my final was creating bugs and it ended up being caused by my first project when it got loaded in for viewing. Anyways, here it is. A show of all the animating skills learned over the course of one semester in 2d animation at Cuyahoga Community College.

Click the image  and you'll be taken to my portfolio page where this project is at. Enjoy!!

Here's a holiday E-card I made for a local cable company.  I tried to make it as non denominational as possible since it's getting sent out to a wide variety of people.

I do the snowman's voice and my son did the kid's voice. I know the sound quality isn't amazing, but hey,  I don't have a proffesional recording studio in my attic. sorry. The list of holidays I thought was amusing. A lot of the holidays are fictional from movies and tv,  fitting i think since it's for a cable company.

In case you missed them, here's the list of holidays I used.

• Hanukkah
• Eid ul-Adha
• Advent
• Christmas
• Chinese New Year
• Winter Solstice
• Bodhi Day
• Imbolc
• Hand Washing Awareness Week
• Dong zhi
• Civil Aviation Day
• Diwali
• Holy Innocents' Day
• Ice Cream and Violins Day
• Yule
• Read A New Book Month
• Samhain
• Eat A Red Apple Day
• Inti Raymi
• Refrigerator Day
• Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week
• Eastern Orthodox Christmas
• AIDS Awareness Day
• Saturnalia
• Sadeh
• St. Valentine's Day
• Matariki
• Forefathers' Day
• Coats For Kids Days
• Feast of Fools
• Pearl Harbor Day
• Kwanzaa
• Feast of Winter Veil
• Hogmanay
• St. Lucy Day
• Yulefest
• Volunteer Day
• Stress Free Family Holiday Month
• Rosa Parks Day
• Burns Night
• Festival du Voyageur
• Christmas Eve
• GERD Awareness Week
• New Year's Eve
• Muhurram
• Groundhog Day
• Watch Night
• Saint Nicholas' Day
• Freezingman
• Life Day
• Armenian Apoststolc Christmas
• Lupercalia
• Saint John the Evangelist's Day
• Britney Spears birthday
• Festivus
• Human Rights Day
• Chahar Shanbeh Suri
• Yalda
• Poinsettia Day
• Holiday
• Kwansolhaneidmas
• Modranect
• Maritime Day
• Bhaubeej
• Hi Neighbor Month
• Boxing Day
• Winter Solstice
• Saint Basil's Day
• Karachun
• Starlight Celebration

This is my second project for my 2d animation class. I spent a lot of time on it, then the file got corrupt, and I had to spend even more time on it. So many late hours....ugh.

The graphic talk scene is a clip from the "Golden Girls", don't ask why. The phototalk scene is a student at tri-c and the audio is Tommy Wiseauo in the "Room". Also the music in the animated mask scene is from an artist called Nullsleep. I also made a nice lego man for the zoom scene, if I don't say so for myself. The movie and jesus painting are creative commons media. Anything else is my original stuff.

Click the picture to see it. This will probably take a minute to load, I haven't got the preloader on it yet. Enjoy!

Here's a link to my first animation project for 2d animation. It might take a minute to load

This is just a collection of the beginner projects I created while in my class for animation. Everything was done in flash, except certain elements were made with either adobe Photoshop cs4 or Illustrator cs4

Nothing really special, about these animations. They only cover the most basic of animation techniques.