Matthew Augustin

"Hallucinate" by Dua Lipa from Titmouse and The Mill I'm proud to say I got to contribute a few animated bits to the video.  Check the description in the video for a list of all the talented people I got to work with remotely during quarantine.

Storyscape was one cool project. It took a lot of talented people to put this game together. There were many people contributing to the rigging and animation, and my role was to create re-usable 2.5D character rigs, create new re-usable animations, and to sometimes review and correct rigs made by outside sources. I worked closely with the art and the artists, sometimes making art changes myself, sometimes sending it back to the artist for changes. I made tutorial videos and long instructional documents on how to make these characters come to life. We were all so sad to see Storyscape go, there were so many more cool things coming down the pipeline.

I have been working in Spine (a 2D animation tool for games) for FoxNext (Fox's mobile games) for almost 2 years now as a freelance animator.  I can't show any of that yet, but for now here is some Spine animation I did on my free time.  I used photos from a quick image search, split the image into layers with some cutting and repainting in Photoshop, made a skeleton with some clever constraints, and animated them to the TMNT theme song.  Lip syncing is tricky because Spine does not have any audio playback, but I was able to estimate the timing by listening to the track a few times and going back and forth between it and Spine.  I made a skeleton that was easy to reuse for each Italian Renaissance Ninja Artist, saving rigging time.

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I contributed some animation to Jay-Z's new video, along with some other amazing artists at Titmouse.  I worked on the angels and the psychiatrist's office and a couple other small parts. WARNING: explicit content

3D Animation Reel 2016 Here are some in-game characters I animated for "Guardian Kingdoms" by Phoenix One.