Daniel Kmet

Senior Animator

Daniel Kmet Animation Demo Reel

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Animation Demo Reel 2018

Role	Animator

0:00-0:03

O2 'Follow the Rabbit'

Senior Animator

The Mill
Animation of a photo-real blue rabbit. Highly detailed subtletey was required. The challenge was to keep the rabbit alive, breathing and twitching, with out making the motion distracting and over the top. This required very detailed study of reference and keying at times every frame on parts of the body and face.

Tools: Maya
0:03-0:08

Old Speckled Hen 'Seek a Richer Life'

Lead/Senior Animator

MPC
Animation of a photo-real fox. This job required keeping the performance of the fox 100% realistic while trying to fit the directors brief, adding lots of subtle detail to make it convincing. I also assisted other animators on the team with animation notes and animation tips.

Tools: Maya
0:08-0:17

SSE "Maya"

Lead/Senior Animator

The Mill
Animation of a photo-real orangutans ‘Maya’ and baby ‘Pixel’. This film was quite a challange. I studied hours of reference and did numerous animation tests. The goal was to keep all performances 100% true to what an orangutan could do while trying to make it act very subtly to meet the directors brief.

VES Award Animation

Tools: XSI
0:17-0:21

O2 'Follow the Rabbit'

Senior Animator

The Mill
Animation of a photo-real blue rabbit. Highly detailed subtletey was required. The challenge was to keep the rabbit alive, breathing and twitching, with out making the motion distracting and over the top. This required very detailed study of reference and keying at times every frame on parts of the body and face.

Tools: Maya
0:21-0:23

SSE 'Neon House'

Lead/Senior Animator

The Mill
Animation of a photo-real orangutans ‘Maya’ and baby ‘Pixel’. The goal was to keep all performances 100% true to what orangutans do while trying to make it act very subtly to meet the directors brief. I also assisted other animators on the team with animation notes and animation tips.

VES Nomination Animation

Tools: Maya
0:23-0:26

SSE "Maya"

Lead/Senior Animator

The Mill
Animation of a photo-real orangutans ‘Maya’ and baby ‘Pixel’. This film was quite a challange. I studied hours of reference and did numerous animation tests. The goal was to keep all performances 100% true to what an orangutan could do while trying to make it act very subtly to meet the directors brief.

VES Award Animation

Tools: XSI
0:26-0:29

O2 'Follow the Rabbit'

Senior Animator

The Mill
Animation of a photo-real blue rabbit. Highly detailed subtletey was required. The challenge was to keep the rabbit alive, breathing and twitching, with out making the motion distracting and over the top. This required very detailed study of reference and keying at times every frame on parts of the body and face.

Tools: Maya
0:29-0:38

Booking.com 'Truffles'

Lead/Senior Animator

MPC
Animation of a photo-real pig. Assisting with rig testing and development. Assisting other animators on the team with animation notes and techiniques.

Tools: Maya
0:38-0:41

iPhone X 'Unleash'

Senior Animator

MPC
Animation of a huge ‘kraken’ creature in a photo-real environment.

Tools: Maya
0:41-0:43

Jaguar 'Electrical Storm'

Senior Animator

MPC
Animation of a photo-real jaguar. We were not able to find footage of a big cat walking down stairs. The challenge was to study it’s movement in detail to create a believable walk. Additional changes made to my shots to address agency requests after I had completed my contract on the job.

Tools: Maya
0:43-0:47

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Animator

MPC
Post-viz animation and animation test of a large photo-real python sized snake. Although pythons cannot move so fast, a part of the brief was to experiment with how a huge snake might believably be able to travel down stairs at a speed fast enough to persue the actors, using detailed study of photo and video reference.

Tools: Maya
0:47-0:50

John Lewis 'Moz the Monster'

Lead/Senior Animator

The Mill
Facial animation of the character ‘Moz’, body motion provided by a couple of men operating the suit. Assisting other animators on the team with animation notes.

Tools: Maya
0:50-0:57

SSE 'Pier'

Lead/Senior Animator

The Mill
Realistic creature animation of a photo-real orangutan called ‘Maya’. While trying to adhere to the directors’ desired performance, the challange was to keep the action believable and true to what orangutans might actually do. Assisting other animators on the team with animation notes.

VES Award Animation

Tools: Maya
0:57-1:00

Three 'Go Binge'

Senior Animator

The Mill
Test animation of a photo-real dolphin. Assisting other animators on the team with animation. This shot in its current form was finally cut from the final film as a result of a change in direction.

Tools: Maya
1:00-1:05

Fox's Biscuits 'Everday Occasions'

Animator

MPC
Character animation of a Vinnie the panda. All animation is key framed from scratch except for the lipsync which was derived from a facial capture system and then slightly modified in animation from the mocap base.

Tools: Maya
1:05-1:09

Three 'Go Roam'

Senior Animator

The Mill
Creature animation of a realistic giraffe calf struggling to get up after being birthed. While trying infuse a little personality, I was required to keep the action as realistic as possible.

Tools: Maya
1:09-1:24

SSE 'Leaves'

Lead/Senior Animator

The Mill

Realistic creature animation of a photo-real orangutan called ‘Maya’ and her baby ‘Pixel'. While trying to adhere to the directors’ desired performance, the challange was to keep the action believable and true to what orangutans might actually do.

Tools: Maya
1:24-1:25

TUI 'You in the Middle'

Senior Animator

The Mill

Animation of photo-real crabs scuttling and dancing in time with the music in the advertisement. Using reference video to create a realistic walk, I added ‘arm’ gestures choreographed to the music, while keeping the range of motion realistic to how crabs can move their pincer arms.

Tools: Maya
1:25-1:41

Rynkeby 'Juice Bar'

Lead/Senior Animator

The Mill
Animation of a realistic orangutan and a pelican. The challenge with this piece was to keep the main character of the orangutan as reallistic as possible while introducing quite a bit of character via anthoropomorphic acting choices.

Tools: Maya

Comments (2)

James Bennett
Really nice creature animation. Great work!

83 months ago
Daniel Kmet
@jamesbennett Thank you James, appreciate you comment. Just saw your reel, wow!!! That's incredibly impressive animation, iconic shows!

83 months ago

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