This is a compilation of various animation exercises and projects I completed while attending Sheridan College's Post-Grad Computer Animation Program. I used Maya, Mudbox, After Effects and Photoshop.

I should point out that the young male character and the wooden mannequin that appear in a few of these clips were not created by me but rather, are supplied by the school for us to perfect our animation skills.

In the first clip with the Captain Marvel toy, which I titled, "Takeoff" everything was conceived, modeled, lit and animated by me. The project was to create a 10 second interstitial involving a toy intended for an animation or kids oriented TV channel. . For those of you who aren't familiar with the term "interstitial", it's one of those short buffers TV stations put in when a show breaks for commercials. I saw this as a good opportunity to have some fun with our societies fascination with the strong, powerful, macho male stereotype.

The second clip is a lip sync exercise using an audio clip I'm sure many of you will recognize from a movie I personally think highly of.

Then there's the ubiquitous "Walk Cycle" in which we animate 2 seconds of walking that can be played on a continuous loop if desired. And yes, I know the mannequin walks like John Travolta from the opening sequence of the movie Saturday Night Fever.

Then there's a jump exercise were I thought I would get more use out of my Captain Marvel figure.

Next is the "Turn and Walk" exercise. Although the point of the exercise is to animate our figure turning and walking, we were encouraged to embellish the shot by putting those actions within some other action or scene. I chose to illustrate a point you tend to learn as you accumulate more years on this crazy, mixed up planet; That is, sometimes the roadblocks we experience in life can be the best things that happen to us.

And I end with a short clip from my main project of the year, which I titled "Alphega".