A little demo I made for class this semester while teaching a workflow for sculpting a human form in blender and texturing with vertex paint. It's really remarkable what's achievable and accessible with free software right now. Spent alot of time this year figuring out the best way to bring these techniques to the classroom.
Rigging / mocap from Mixamo
Retopology with QRemeshify
BG Effects with touch designer
I’m not one to gush too hard on main, but everyone better go wish @getrichnever a very happy birthday because he deserves it. Art lover, great with small furry creatures, cheese appreciator, fashionista, and one who is funny and kind to boot (he would be annoyed if I said these things make him a quintessential libra, but hey ⚖️). I’m so lucky I get to travel the world with this charming man! ♥️
#flashDRIVEto ft: Tobias Williams @getrichnever —> Sun King (2025)
Obsessed with the textures 💫
3D rendered looping animation
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tobias Williams is an artist and educator based in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MFA from York University and currently teaches at OCADU in the experimental animation department and Humber College. Tobias Recently completed an educational residency with the Toronto Public Library as part of the 2023 Innovator in Residence program and worked with STYLY XR as the head lecturer of the 2022 NEWVIEW SCHOOL in Toronto. His work has been shown both locally and internationally including exhibitions at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin as part of Transmediale, Material Art fair in Mexico City, The Brandscape in Toronto and the AGM in Mississauga. Tobias’s art and research practice uses XR, 3d rendering and animation to explore the relationship between art, society and technology. Recent projects of his have focused on topics such as the history of Blockchain, the influence of platform based algorithms on contemporary visual culture and the ontology of virtual art spaces.
⚡End of semester content dump⚡
1)a collaborative composition I made in touch designer with student gifs from my blurring boundaries class plus a few of my own animations
2) a quick cloth demo I threw together for my experimental 3d sims class
3+4) some of the images from a risograph edition produced by my pixel pusher students at ocad
REGISTRATION LINK IN BIO. Please join us Friday January 24th at the OCADU Mix Animation Studio for a lecture from Academy award winning animator Chris Landreth. Chris will be delivering a version of his Making Faces Masterclass, a lecture which focuses on the technical and anatomical aspects of facial animation. You will learn the alphabet of the language of human faces. This alphabet is known as FACS, the Facial Action Coding System, developed by pioneer psychologist Paul Ekman 40 years ago, a system used by character animators and animation studios universally to this day.
Chris Landreth (b. 1961) is an American animator based in Canada, best known for his Oscar-winning short film Ryan (2004). Formerly an engineer with a background in theoretical and applied mechanics, Landreth transitioned to animation in the 1990s. His work includes The End, Bingo, and The Listener. As well as his achievements in animation he also works in software development, in the mid 90’s he was hired to contribute to the development of animation software like Maya. Chris Currently works as Co Founder & Creative Officer of Jali Research a company which creates directable tools for dialogue on rigged 3d characters. JALI software has been used by several major animation and game studios including CD Projekt RED for Cyberpunk 2077.
This lecture has limited capacity and is restricted to OCADU students and faculty. Please register on the Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/chris-landreth-making-faces-masterclass-at-ocadu-tickets-1141165118589?aff=oddtdtcreator or link in bio.
Made a new filter for instagram. You can find it by clicking on my profile here and hitting the effects button near the top. Try it out!!
#effects #filter
Belated New York photo dump
1) Freemans Alley
2) "Cover with a Mask" Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, (1521)
3) Cabaret at Kit Kat Club
4) Maurizio Cattelan at gagosian
5) Miss Piggy at the Museum of the Moving Image
6) Otter or Mongoose figure (664–30 B.C) at the Met
7) The view from the roof of our hotel
8) Adam Parker Smith at the Hole
9) Martin Eder at Marlborough
10) Misaki Kawi at the Hole
Had so much fun this semester teaching a course for @ocadu_experimental_animation focused on experimenting with 3d simulations. The interplay between intentionality and accident inherent in the process of using simulations in 3d animation is one of the elements that attracted me to this medium. It was a blast to get to play around with the simulation possibilities in Blender over a semester with a fantastic group of students.
This was supposed to be a quick hair dynamics demo for a class but I ended up playing around with it for a couple of weeks. Audio by mememusic117 on tiktok
