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| Some recent examples of TopixFX work |
Dec 8, 2012
I just took a leave of absence from teaching to take a temporary full-time freelance gig animating realistic creatures at Toronto commercial and VFX house
TopixFx.
For the past month I've been animating crazy-cute critters and while I'm dying to tell you all about it it's completely NDA.
For a small studio, the talent at Topix is extremely diverse, producing top-quality work ranging from cartoony to hyper-real.
I really appreciate the creature experience of our director,
Marcus Alqueres, who has an extensive VixFX background including animation and supervision credits from Rise of Planet of the Apes, The 300 and TinTin. Looking forward to another few weeks on this project!
Here are a few of the doodles I did at Topix to better understand pandas. I gathered a ton of reference photos and footage before I started but Topix turned out to have the largest collection of reference material I've ever seen. I made quick photo collages as desktop wallpaper and drew all the time - on my breaks, while waiting for scenes to load, etc. I took extensive director notes because I don't trust my own memory and I wanted to do the best possible job of interpreting the director's ideas. I have otter notes too! 
