As part of FRC Robotics Team 846, we are tasked each year to create a 40 second safety animation. 

2019 Prompt:
      "Your mission, and failure is NOT an option, is to identify one or more potential risks            to safety, including hand injuries, that you may encounter during your trip into Deep           Space. Demonstrate practical and innovative solutions to mitigate these risks and               ensure the achievement of your goals."
       ~ firstinspires.org/safety

Theme: Space

To create this, I directed a 7 week animation workshop to teach rookies and after working together on it for a month, it has all come together. Completely high school student-designed, composed, sung, and animated, we used high-level tools such as Autodesk Maya, After Effects, and Audacity.

My Role: Project Director / 3D Modeler / Animator / Rapper
(see the rest of the team in the video description, and credits at the end of the video)

^ lighting test render
^ storyboard and set design                                                      ^ ship concept art by Jennifer
 ^ Character Design 
^ Rigging and posing                     ^ Alien character sketch             
I'm proud of how much the team improved from last year! See below our video from 2018
Current 3D Animation Project (In Progress): Short Story
My role: Director, character designer and modeler, storyboard creator, rigging, character animator, hair sim, lighting, rendering, textures, shading, compositor, teacher
This is a massive ongoing team project (started Aug 2019) that I am doing with friends on my high school robotics team. They contributed many of the background and environment models, collaborated on music, story, the animated scenes. I switched from Maya to Blender to create this animation, and now I am comfortable doing many complicated tasks in Blender. I also learned a lot about character movement, with some scenes animated based on recordings of myself. 
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