Cat Hicks

7 Days 'till Emeryville

2008-05-29T22:12:00.000-07:00

Gee golly wiz! The blood sweat and tears have paid off!

One week from today I'll be flying out to join the folks at Pixar Animation Studios for an internship in Character Animation! I am beyond humbled and am absolutely thrilled to have been selected for this! To work with the masters at Pixar has been a personal goal I have aspired to from the moment I feel head over heals in love with character animation.

Respecting the wishes of Pixar, I will not be updating my blog during my employment. If any friends out there plan on being in the Bay Area at all this summer give me a ring and lets try to catch lunch. As for everyone else, I'll see you back at Ringling this fall. We're seniors now!

Have a great summer everyone!

Push Pull Exaggerated Animation

2008-01-14T17:28:00.000-08:00

Click the image to view animation. 37MB.

This is the exaggerated version of this animation. Feedback and criticism welcomed!

-C

DFA: Mood Swings

2007-11-23T10:05:00.000-08:00

Here is my lastest piece from my DFA class. This is concept art from a short story I wrote about a character suffering from a personality disorder.

And here is some of the progress work from this image.

Push Pull Natural

2007-11-20T18:19:00.001-08:00

Here is my Push/Pull Natural project for fall semester! Click the image to watch.

DFA: Drama Project

2007-11-01T22:32:00.001-07:00

Here is some work from my latest project in my Drawing for Animators class. This is an illustration from one of my many thesis ideas.

In/Out Animation

2007-10-24T16:44:00.001-07:00

This is my In/Out animation for fall semester!

Please comment with any motion critiques you may have. I will be reanimating the first 5 beats of this piece this Christmas. I already have a lot of ideas thumbnailed out but any additional suggestions as to what other acting choices could use to break up that even pacing would be great. Thanks!

Fall Semester Character

2007-09-30T12:40:00.000-07:00

Forgot to post this silly guy. This is Danny and he is my character for our fall semester projects. In this render there are some weighting issues that I have since worked out. Also, his displacement and bump maps are not visible here. He has buttons and shoelaces and pockets and what have you. I wish I had time to render out some nicer color stills but alas, I don't! You'll see him in his full glory in the animations.

More work from DFA

2007-09-28T00:00:00.000-07:00

Animatic

2007-09-19T22:19:00.000-07:00

Here's a few pieces of a recent animatic I did in my concept class. (That's animatic, not animation.) It's based on a story we wrote about a man and a donation bucket. All of these drawings are in order, however they did not necessarily play back to back in the final piece. I took out some poses here and there and am just showing some fun key drawings.

Character Designs

2007-09-15T23:16:00.001-07:00

Sit/Stand Animation

2007-04-30T22:14:00.000-07:00

Here is a compressed version of my most recent animation.

This piece actually made it into the Best of Ringling show for 2007! Yippie!

Character Design

2007-04-04T01:17:00.000-07:00

Some stuff from my new character design portfolio. Horay!

Sit Stand Character Development pt. 2

2007-02-26T18:12:00.000-08:00

Re-visited this wacky design! Still a work in progress, at least texture wise. Last image is the original unapproved design.

Sketchbook

2007-01-12T23:40:00.000-08:00

A few scans from my current sketchbook.

Sketch Commissions

2007-01-03T09:42:00.000-08:00

Here are a few examples of the sketch commissions I took over Christmas break. Big thanks to all those who commissioned me!

Some Traditional Animation

2006-12-22T14:23:00.000-08:00

Here's some work that I did for traditional animation this past semester.

Flour Sack Animation

2006-05-18T18:34:00.000-07:00

So here is my flour sack animation from my traditional animation class. This piece made it into Best of Ringling this year I still don't know what to think!

Time to buy more paper!