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by Gordon Pinkerton

9 months ago

3. Gordon Pinkerton Modeling Reel 2011

by Gordon Pinkerton

10 months ago

2. Modeling Reel 2010

by Gordon Pinkerton

1 year ago

1. Animation Reel 2010

by Gordon Pinkerton

1 year ago

This is my senior film from Ringling College of Art and Design. It all starts when a naive native tribesman wanders into a hunter's campsite...

Everything, from initial story to final compositing, was created by me. Thanks for viewing and I hope you enjoy it!

Check out other awesome shorts from Ringling here: vimeo.com/channels/ringling2011

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Russell Miller 9 months ago

I will never get tired watching it, definitely one of the Best of Ringling this year hands down. It turned out great Gordon!
Gustavo Jimenez 9 months ago

REally good work man!! Loved it!
Cliff Schonewill 9 months ago

I really had fun watching this piece come to completion Gordon. Great work, be proud! I still wish for an ET shot when the jump over the boxes... alas!

Good luck wherever you go!
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

Hahaha maybe someday I'll comp that in just for you Cliff ;)

Good Luck to you to, I'm sure you'll do great things!
Nikhil Kamboj 9 months ago

Love it! Awesome work!!
Ceiga 9 months ago

Amazing animation. Impressive work.
Posted on ceiga.co.uk/blog/
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

Thanks! :)
Sam Morrill 9 months ago

Awesome
Kendra Phillips 9 months ago

I still can't believe you did this and pretty much taught me everything I currently know about Maya at the same time.
Stop being so amazing at everything, darn it!
Ken Phillips 9 months ago

Great job Gordon.
Chris Woods 9 months ago

Wow. Wow. Wow) That's definitaly worth wathing more than ten times.
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

More than 10 times?! What an honor! ;)

Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it
Jeen m Thankappan 9 months ago

Good one!! loved the rendering & Storyline and characters.. Just missing more Anticipation & secondary motion on animation.

Bravo!! Keep it up..
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

Thanks! Yeah, if there was one thing I had time to go back and work on it would be animation!
Myriam Di Carlo 9 months ago

great!!
Andy Senesac 9 months ago

Great work indeed sir. Loved the expressions.
Lavizh | Vascotia Studios 9 months ago

Haha, that was awesome man! Great inspiration.
Tim McCourt 9 months ago

good job!
Dylan Damyanovich 9 months ago

Wow the ending did it for me, wasnt expecting that one bit.
victor silva 9 months ago

Exelente trabajo Gordon, en verdad, Exelente¡ es fabuloso lo que lograste me dejaste impresionado y espero en un futuro cercano poder hacer algo de esa magnitud. ^^
Steven Bailey 9 months ago

Totally cool.
Luke Baggott 9 months ago

You have inspired me. Right, off to work.
sylvain 9 months ago

very good,....

what software use???????????????????????
Uri Lotan 9 months ago

ohh! amazing job Gordo! :)
It turned out really great!

It was such a pleasure to see this thing
grow, and I just can't wait for the next big thing!

good luck Gordo!
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

Thanks Uri! :D
Eleftherios Kokkinakis 9 months ago

Awesome short dude!! Great style, lighting and animation is simply brilliant!! May I ask how much time it took you for the rendering (per frame) and what renderer u used?
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

Thanks! We use Pixar's Renderman at Ringling. It's a pretty powerful renderer, but not too much documentation out there on how to use it. I split everything into render layers (each character, background, foreground, etc.) so it's a little hard to give an actual render time... but I would say a mid shot with both characters took an average of about 8-10 minutes or so at HD720.
Eleftherios Kokkinakis 9 months ago

That sounds fair (8-10mins). Also splitting into layers sounds like a good idea but for some reason I haven't tried it yet. Thanks so much for answering. I wish u the best. : )
Eleftherios Kokkinakis 9 months ago

Oh oh.. could I plz have one more question? Did you use fur for the grass or simple textures with transparency? I tried once to make grass (twitpic.com/1e2d8u/full) but it took some time with the rendering.
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

Yup, I used Maya fur. I was careful to only make it as dense as I needed it... so in most shots where you're seeing it from the side more... it's pretty light, but then on some of the top-down shots, you start to see patches so I would have to up the density. And yeah, it will add render time... but being conservative with light linking and shadow map sizes on the grass can save you a good amount of time. Most of the time I would render my grass out alone and composite it in too... But I think its worth the extra effort/time.
Eleftherios Kokkinakis 9 months ago

Good Thinking!! Thanks you so much.
Oscar Cantaro 9 months ago

Very very good.
Weldon Byrns 9 months ago

Good job Gordon!
gabrielmanasfi 9 months ago

Muito bacana seu video de animação, os movimentos estão ótimos, muito bom, bom não ótimo, Parabéns
Thea 9 months ago

Extremely impressive for having done it all yourself! I have similar aspirations, glad to see an example from someone who's been able to do it. :)
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

It's a great experience doing an entire film on your own, I hope you have as much fun as I did! :D
Thea 9 months ago

Can I ask how many hours you estimate that you ended up putting into it from start to finish minus passive stuff like rendering? Doing such a project all on your own is daunting, but it's exactly what I want to try to do. The only other examples I've seen though have quoted four years or more. :(
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

Yyyyup. It takes a while. This took a year and a half... and that was an intense... 12 hour days, 7 days a week kind of deal. But I don't regret a second of it :)
Thea 9 months ago

Good to know, thanks!
Erich Bartos 9 months ago

Nice animation taken off, but it is not going.
Congratulations for your hard work.
Yoav Shtibelman 9 months ago

Great job Gordon! I'm still amazed how you managed to make it in such short amount of time! Thank you for all your help - hope to see you sooooon!
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

Thanks Yoav! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with in Pre-pro this year :D
Moh. Galal 9 months ago

Great work !!! :D
Preston Platt 9 months ago

Very Very well done. I think there is going to be a new place for people passionate and ambitious enough to make animation shorts of this caliber on there own. It is in my mind True Directing. I am 7 months deep on my own and I know how big of a project this truly is. Great job.
Gordon Pinkerton 9 months ago

Thanks! And good luck on yours! :D
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Christine Bianky 9 months ago

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Bartwin Hubble (Comment Advisor) 9 months ago

Bianky rod,

1. We are not on Facebook

2. Could you reframe from being so vague in future comments please.

Why do you like it? The person that created the video deserves this to be able to improve his talent.

Comment with care

C.A.
Sean Janisse 9 months ago

a lot of fun! wickedly awesome film!
aline de la victoria 8 months ago

all by urself! u inspire me!
michael juliano 8 months ago

greate FANTABTACULIOUS/// noticed the shaYding // alwaYs nYce 2 si a trYbesman victour the challenge//
David-Daniel Day 8 months ago

Very good short animated story!!!
Kim Hazel 8 months ago

REALLY nice!!!
Gandolpho 7 months ago

Very good short!
Sam Welker 5 months ago

Hahaha I loved the ending!
Mehdi Mirzae 5 months ago

cool and sweet , awesome idea .
Beanie Lawton 2 months ago

that was really awesome... laughed a lot at the end... nice work!
Noodles Map 1 month ago

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Joao Sousa 1 month ago

great piece of art :D