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Alec Fredericks
Character TD
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Character TD Demo Reel
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Rigging, Technical Animation, Simulation and Pipeline Demo Reel (This reel is a bi...
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0:04-0:11
Character TD
On Clone Wars, I designed a number of custom rigs, including the hybrid dynamic cloth rig on the clone trooper shown here.
Tools:
Maya
0:11-0:20
Clone Wars
Character TD
This bit shows how the rig can be both dynamic (wind, gravity, etc.) and fully hand keyframed by an animator at the same time.
Tools:
Maya
0:21-0:31
Clone Wars
Character TD
The big arrow is a visual aid I created for the animator to automate the direction and strength of physical forces in a very intuitive way.
Tools:
Maya
0:34-0:44
Clone Wars
Character TD
I rigged the Rodian female (right), complete with dynamic ear and antennae rigs for quick and easy secondary animation.
Tools:
Maya
0:45-0:55
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Character TD
I created the character blending system that allowed any two characters to transform from one to another, including skeleton, shapes and materials. (way fun)
Tools:
Maya
1:01-1:11
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Character TD
Thimbletack and Boggart were the two most visible transformations throughout the film.
The father and Mulgarath (bad guy) was the other important transformation.
Tools:
Maya
1:14-1:21
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Character TD
I created a number of custom rigs to create flowing secondary animation for a number of these flower sprites.
Tools:
Maya
1:22-1:27
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Character TD
I created a dynamic hero rug that I also simulated and art directed for a few shots of the film.
Tools:
Maya
1:28-1:35
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Character TD
I came in late on this project so mostly worked on cloth and rigid simulations and creating simulation rigs on almost all of the shots requiring ropes and whips.
Tools:
Zeno, Maya
1:36-1:46
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Character TD
For all of these Pirates shots, I was responsible for all cloth, tentacle and other simulation.
Tools:
Zeno, Maya
1:57-2:08
Eragon
Creature TD/Sim Monkey
A small team of us (three) developed the wing system for the dragon.
Additionally, I did a lot of shot work that used the custom wing and hair system.
All of my shots included the only dynamic saddle system for the show, too. Everyone else hand-animated theirs.
Tools:
Zeno
2:10-2:20
Eragon
Creature TD/Sim Monkey
The first shot worked on in the show was this one I did for the trailer. I was responsible for creating and simulating the guard's capes and making the digital doubles look more refined.
Tools:
Zeno
2:46-3:02
BioShock 2
Character TD
I was the only Character TD on this show. I designed and implemented all of the internal rigging and animation tools for characters, weapons and props.
I also created, along with Richard Jobling on the Unreal side of things, a shape-based facial animation system for the hero characters.
Tools:
3DS Max
3:05-3:15
I'm updating this reel to represent my more recent work, including that for Disney, Red 5 Studios and a bunch of VR content.
Thank you for watching.
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