Ryan Holloway's Animation & VFX Reel

Project Brief: Collaborate with two other students to create a short animated sequence with a dynamic character using performance motion capture to drive the character's animation.

Ryan's Roles: Character Modeling, Rigging, Layout, Animation, CFX (vellum), Camera Animation, Video Editing, Sound Design, Motion Performance Directing

Software: Houdini

Project Brief: Collaborate with four other students to create a live-action VFX short film for our master's capstone project over a three month period.

Ryan's Roles: Cinematography, FX (flying 'echo' creatures), Tool Development, Photogrammetry, Video Editing, Color Grading, VFX Pre-Production Planning

Software: Houdini, Reality Capture, Davinci Resolve

Ryan's Roles: Virtual Cinematography, Photogrammetry (environment reference geometry), Asset Tool Development (Magic Box HDA)

Software: Houdini, Reality Capture, Davinci Resolve

A quick look at the work that went into creating our capstone film for the Master of Design Technology at Victoria University of Wellington.

Project Brief: Animate a character's upper body and facial performance.

Ryan's Roles: Animation, Lighting, Camera Animation, Color

Software: Blender

Project Brief: Create looping character animations (walk, run, jump, peck, idle) to generate sprites for a 2D side scroller video game.

Ryan's Roles: Rigging, Animation, Lighting

Software: Blender

Ryan's Roles: Character Modeling, Rigging

Software: Houdini

Project Brief: Collaborate on-set with the Director and Director of Photography to ensure the VFX shot was captured in a way that would work well in post. Create a lightning bolt shooting out of the wizards and that makes a burger magically appear.

Ryan's Role: FX, Compositing

Software: Fusion

Project Brief: Change the orange chili to appear red, like blood.

Ryan's Roles: Color Grading, Cinematography

Software: Davinci Resolve

Project Brief: Create five silent 15 second motion design commercials for Netspend to play on displays in stores.

Ryan's Roles: Graphic Design, Motion Design

Software: Illustrator, After Effects 

Project Brief: Create a video that demonstrates the main features of Rallyhood, a mobile and application that brings people together around a common cause or purpose.

Ryan's Roles: Generate all content (photos, comments, dates, etc.), Screen Capture Web App, Motion Design, Video Editing

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro

I volunteered at a Summer Camp to teach children animation.

Project Brief: Create a video showing off the children's art and animations. 

Ryan's Roles: Cel Animation, Stop Motion Animation, Motion Design, Video Editing, Teaching Children Animation and Filmmaking

Software: Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro