An App I worked on Launched today!

When I was interning at Disney Consumer Products I animated a lot on Read with Doc Mcstuffins: Letters and Sounds. It was originally under the Imagicademy branding but may have changed due to it being terminated last year. Here is a short reel with some of the animations I did for the app, this is only a small sample of what I animated and does not include animation that I revised or animation that had more then myself working on it. Big thanks to my old team, and I hope you enjoy!

Baker Animations for Doc Apps from Jacob M Baker on Vimeo.

Link to App below
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1053294297

Updated my Character Reel

Jacob M Baker 2015 Animation Reel from Jacob M Baker on Vimeo.

I animated all of these shots myself. Many of these shots are from my Internship with Disney Consumer Products as an Animation Intern, part of Disney Learning.  The shots in this reel are from games that have I have worked on, or animation tests with characters from Disney Junior shows that have been released to the public.

All Disney audio and animation I am showing is property of The Walt Disney Company.

Animation Reel Breakdown

Shot 01 - Goofy Dance

This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Mickey's Shapes Sing Along

Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 02 - Lambie Dance

This is an animation test for the character Lambie from the Disney Junior Show Doc Mcstuffins

Animation assignment from The Walt Disney Company; I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 03 - Chilly Dance and Idle Dialogue

This is an animation test for the character Stuffy from the Disney Junior Show Doc Mcstuffins

Animation assignment from The Walt Disney Company; I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 04- Melinda Mermaid Idles

This is an animation test for the Character Melinda from the Disney Junior Show Doc Mcstuffins

Animation assignment from The Walt Disney Company; I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 05 - Bronty Jumps

This is an animation test for the character Bronty from the Disney Junior Show Doc Mcstuffins

Animation assignment from The Walt Disney Company; I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 06 - Edith and the Bear Shots

This Animation is from the Animated Short Edith and the Bear

Animation assignment is from working under Hillary Bradfield, the animation is traditional hand drawn animation that was then cleaned up in photoshop.

Character and Animation Property of Hillary Bradfield

Shot 07 - Sven Easter Egg 5

This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Frozen Early Science

Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 08 - Olaf Idles

This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Frozen Early Science

Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 09 - Olaf walk cycles with plate

This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Frozen Early Science

Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 10- Doc Walk

This is an animation test for the character Doc from the Disney Junior Show Doc Mcstuffins

Animation assignment from The Walt Disney Company; I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 11 - Final Test

This Animation is from the Animated Short End of the Vine

Animation assignment is from working under Adobe, I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of Adobe

Shot 12 - Floating Alien

This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Mickey's Magical Math World 

Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.

Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

My Animation Internship was Extended to a Year!

Here is some released Animation from my Internship with DCPI (Frozen Science & Mickeys Space Math Games). The shots in this reel are from games that have been released on the market. All Audio and animation I am showing has been approved to show.



This is only a portion of the work I have been able to work on with DCPI, although a large portion of the work I do involves working on shots that have had many hands involved so I have chosen to only show some of the better work that I animated 100% of.

I animated all of these shots myself. Many of these shots are from my current Internship with Disney Consumer Products as an Animation Intern for the new Disney Imagicademy branch, part of Disney Learning.

Animation Reel Breakdown

Shot 1 - Goofy Dance
This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Mickey's Shapes Sing Along
Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.
Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 2 - Mickey Dance
This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Mickey's Shapes Sing Along
Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.
Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 3 - Sven Easter Egg 5
This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Frozen Early Science
Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.
Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 4 - Olaf Idles
This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Frozen Early Science
Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.
Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 5 - Olaf walk cycle with plate
This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Frozen Early Science
Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.
Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 6 & 7 - Oaken Idles
This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Frozen Early Science
Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.
Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Shot 8 - Floating Alien
This Animation is part of the App Disney Imagicademy Mickey's Magical Math World
Animation assignment from Disney's Imagicademy, I animated the shot in Maya.
Character and Animation Property of the Walt Disney Company

Our Award winning film! "End of the Vine"

End of the Vine from Raquel Rabbit on Vimeo.

End of the Vine Won!

End of the Vine won 1rst place in the CSU Media Arts Festival in the Animation category!

Final Angelo Shot with reference and pushed poses

Here is a more polished version of my latest shot. I worked on polishing and eye trace so that the viewer would have an easier time tracking the characters movements by smearing the Rig. I was able to accomplish this with a few Squash and Stretch techniques.

Here are a few of my favorites in the shot. 

Here is the original reference so that you can see how far the shot has come from the original idea

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Here is my Ice Bucket Challenge. I hope you all enjoy it.

Fish Shot Angelo

  This is a shot started to learn how to use the Patrick rig, I was inspired by audio from Parks and Recreation that lead to this enthusiastic fish. I am excited to animate several more shots with Patrick and hope you all enjoy them. 

Patrick Rig from Long Winter Studios, (longwinterstudios.com) Fishing Lure Modeled by myself, Textured by Ashley Kliment.
Audio: Ben Schwartz as Jean-Ralphio from Parks and Recreation Season 4 Episode 2, "Ron & Tammys" 

The Children's film I worked on (Edith and the Bear)

Edith and the Bear from hillary bradfield on Vimeo.

I worked on this film for around 3 months animating 8 shots, with my work in around 12 shots over all in the film. I produced ruff animation, tie downs, and some color for the final film. It was a great crew, a wonderful experience.

Tremble Footage

  Here is a link to some footage from the video game I worked on this year. Release date is in August. The game is called Tremble, I was the lead animator on the characters and the Supervising animator on the rest of the game. 

                                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKofqI8uhIc

Final shots for End of the Vine

These These are my near finished shots for the student film I worked on this year "End of the Vine". I animated the character, the monster, and the user interface she works with. I did not model the characters, light the scene, or animate the explosion effect. 

This weeks Tremble animation cycles

    In my last semester at State I was working in collaboration with UCSC's video game engineers making the video game Tremble. The game should come out some time in August. I not only animated 90% of the character cycles but also was the supervising animator on the rest of the game. The only character cycle I did not animate is Ollie's tree climb. Once the game is up I will send a link, and post more in game footage as it comes out of Beta this week. It was a great experience working with the engineers, getting to meet and talk to John and Brenda Romero, and get to supervise animation, as well as animate on another game project.

4 Shots 1 Week and "Pillars of Hope" (Working Title)

Here are 4 shots I animated in the last week and a half for student film I am working on called Pillars of Hope. I did all of the shots simultaneously under supervising animator Nick Marshall. Jared Mills modeled the characters and set.

Our heroine trying to save the day with science.

Establishing shot of the monster growing front he size of a worm to a building.

 The monster will be getting electrocuted in this shot.

Could not get this video to play in a better window due to it only being one-second. But the shot still does a good job of showing what the main character is in for. 

Nintendo Charity Piece

   It is that time of year again and time its Nintendo themed! I was Given Kirby as my subject for the Nintendo Charity event. My first paper craft was inspired by the ending of the original Kirby game for Game Boy; where Kirby flies away with King Dee Dee Dee's castle filled with treats. I always wondered what that looked like to the citizens of Dreamland, I hope I did it justice.

Finished Shots for my Reel

   These are two shots that I have worked on, on and off this last semester and I am ready to move on to my next shot for my reel.

Guys Great News!

Here is my end of the semester shot, I still have a few things to polish.

Getting Ready for CTN

  Even though the shot isn't fully polished I wanted to render it and put it on my Reel for CTN. My reel is now fully updated if you want to click the link tab near the top of the page. I have had a lot of fun with this shot and I am sure I will be told to fix a hundred things. But that is one of the many reasons I can't wait to go to CTN (Creative Talent Network). If anyone is hopping to one day work in the Animation Industry going to CTN is a great learning experience!

Friends With Nerds

  I was on my friends podcast Nerds With Friends last week. I was a little too far away from the microphone half the time (so I'm the quite one), but if you want to hear me and my friends talk about nerdy things check us out at,

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerds-with-friends/id642659431

Podcast 27 with Jake Baker

Gang brought to Spline

I changed the camera angle, and put in a ruff lip sync when I brought my shot to spline. The cut was the only way to show the emotion in the beginning without loosing the body mechanics that followed almost immediately after.

Guys Great News! (Blocking)

Here is blocking for an animation I am working on for my Reel. Audio is from How I Met Your Mother Season 7. 

The setting is The Alamo and Davy Crockett has just died in the arms of one of his soldiers.