Derek Pritchard

Lead Animator @PlaysideStudios - @AOD_FinalStand

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

Nom Nom Nom! Started out as a personal challange into a more unique locomotion style but couldn't help adding an attack, too much fun animating it. Also first post 💜 joined to connect with more cool animators out there!

#animation #3Danimation #gamedev #gameart

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

Made a Top Gun inspired cinematic trying out some of the new features in Unreal 5.5, in particular the new sequencer and movie render queue updates as well as Lumen and Nanite, had a lot of fun and learnt a lot making it! https://t.co/4n65BrvnTc #UnrealEngine #UE5 #animation

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@Doom_Squid @bioware Awesome work man!

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

@TuxedoPato Wow amazing work! 👏👏👏

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

@George_Wooster Awesome work! The game is full of inspiring animations

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

@Doom_Squid Awesome work man! Keen to play it

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

@Chris_G_Art 100% reapply, it’s something people don’t do enough, external factors aside there’s usually something specific missing from the reel or criteria that wasn’t met, reach back out, ask them what those factors were, action them, show your passion and ability to take feedback

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@carstenseller @A_Graph_Editor Umm excuse me?! Where has this been? Everyday I learn how little I have learnt haha

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

A selection of the hundreds of animations made for Age of Darkness: Final Stand as the Lead Animator, I worked with some amazingly talented people at PlaySide. Some of the animations shown are polish passes over the incredible work of Taliesan Arnold and Neeshma Sadanandhan.

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@Doom_Squid Heyyy that’s sick ✌️

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@cvrlosart @AlekseyMove Thank you! 💜

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

Found some time to return to these soldier animations I worked on a few years ago, always fun to return with fresh eyes and apply new lessons, they certainly aren't perfect but happy to call them done and move onto better things!

#animation #3Danimation #gamedev #gameart

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

@_sammymac28 @nocontextmemes All totally valid baguette locomotions, I do like 3

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

@NikosStudios Oh neat I'll give connected keys a go ✌️ yeah I usually just use animbot global offset now if I'm updating a loops start frame

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

@NikosStudios No idea why it doesn’t exist already, seems so basic and helpful for animating cycles, like some sort of keyframe sync or something like that

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

@Jamwa @GamesHubDotCom @aspenforster @CherieDavidson @HarrisonGibbins @jasonimms @Jickle @SanatanaMishra @GhostTownGoldie @MaizeWallin @merryh No thank you for reaching out 🩷

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

@goodheart_jacob It really depends on the studio structure, everybody defines their titles differently, the usual distintion between seniors and leads is that leads don't get to animate as much as their time is more spend managing the team, giving feedback and stuck in meetings haha

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

Doing the thing! 💖

[Derek Pritchard @DerekP_Animator]

@JAIME_JOTA Yeah I used The Setup Machine 3 and created additional bones and controls for the pouches and weapons, there are probably some better options out there for rigs to use, I was just familiar with it at the time ✌️