CAGD 493 - Christopher Coombs's Senior Portfolio

      Hello everyone! My name is Christopher Coombs, and we have reached the end of the Fall 2025  semester. This final blog will serve as a reflection of all my progress up until this point. Here is the demo reel that I've prepared showing all five animations I've worked on this year:     At the start of the semester, my initial goal was to study the movement of quadrupeds and get good at animating them. The quadruped I decided to start with was a leopard, as shown in the first three animations of my demo reel. Although it took a considerable amount of time and effort to learn the fundamental mechanics of how quadrupeds move, I couldn't have figured it out without the feedback I received from the professor and my classmates. While studying the reference footage I had gathered online, this feedback became crucial in identifying the most significant traits in how quadrupeds generally move.  In a quadrupedal walk cycle, the front and back legs can be ima...

       Hello again! My name is Christopher Coombs, and welcome back to my blog! The end of the year is approaching, and my work is coming to a close. This current animation is more than likely my final one for the semester. In the previous week, I decided to work section by section, since this was one of my longer animations. My goal for that week was to finish the AT-ST's turnaround animation. Here was the result of that previous week's work:      Although it needs just a bit more refinement, it wasn't half bad, being that it was my first biped turnaround. For this week's goal, I was primarily focused on pushing all tangents into spline and retiming the entire animation. I also took the time to refine some areas and even weave a few new small animations into the scene. Here is what I have accomplished by the end of this week:     At first glance, the most noticable change between these animations is how I incorporated my camera angles. I dec...