Geeeeeeez!

How does one person know how to do everything related to making an animated CG short film? Well, you should ask Malcon because it appears that he's got a grasp on all of it! Animation,story,lighting,layout,textures,cameras......the only thing he didn't do is create his own character. Anyway you slice it, I think this is very well done! Thanks for the inspiration Malcon!

Bale animation contest

The Splinedoctors put on an animtion contest. I had a blast with it! Here is my entry.

Bale Animation Challenge from Brandon Beckstead on Vimeo.

Wow, I love this Bee commercial!

Amazing animation! I don't actually think the cough drop would float..............but wow that bee is fun to watch!

Idiota

Ok so I had a blast with this one! On purpose I didn't read the english translation for this. It was fun to try to come up with something based only on the energy of the audio clip.

Fighter.............!

Had some down time at work, so.........I did this. I would love to hear comments and suggestions, Thanks! (The above pic is a link to a bigger .mov H.264)

My first demo reel..........ouch.

Someone on the AM forums posted their first reel and so I had to dig mine up to take a look. I haven't seen this in about six years, and when I watched it I almost died of laughter. This was my very first reel coming out of school. Yeah ouch......seriously......amazingly.....awful! But I thought this was fantastic at the time! I wish they had animation mentor back then.....

Go ahead, have a laugh on me!

B-O-D-Y-----------s?

Ok so this is certainly not the best animation I have done but I had alot of fun with what time I had to do it. I really liked the line of dialogue and I wanted to test out a new workflow idea. Well, the workflow idea didn't pan out so well but I thought the 11 second club was a great place to test it out. At work I get to see so many different workflows from different animators that my workflow is constantly evolving a bit. Some things work, some things don't but I think it's important to try new things and always be learning. This one just happened to teach me what DOESN'T work for me, ha ha. But it's always worth a shot......