After a loooong drive from Maryland, starting my new job at TimeGate Studios out in Houston, Texas!

Animation Reel 2011 from Michael Smith on Vimeo.

Took the time to polish some of my acting exercises and make a new reel out of them.  Made a new page on the site that contains my most current reel and shot breakdown.  You can check it out here...

My latest reel...

Animation Reel 2010 from Michael Smith on Vimeo.

This Reel was thrown together quickly specifically for a job at one company.  Unfortunately I didn't land the gig.  I apologize for the bad compression on some of the videos.  I also need to figure out a cool way of showing, in the reel, how technical I've become as well with Scripting and Rigging.

Welp...I've finally returned to the graveyard of old animations I call my website.  As you can see (if you've been here before) I'm giving it a complete overhaul and changing it to a blog type format.  Should make it easier for me to post more regularly.

OMG!  Please do NOT tell me I let 1 and a half years go by without a SINGLE update!

I swear, time is going by faster and faster.

After watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, it reminded me of my old Transformer days and inspired me to actually do a website update.

K, to save face I'm going to cheat.  I'm going to add a 2008 page as if I'd been doing updates all along (plus I enjoy looking back on my career timeline so I'd like to keep that going).  We all know that I did no updates from 2007 till now, but we'll keep the illusion that I update the site every few months.

So make sure you check out the 2008 page for a bunch of new stuff.

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LucasArts’ Fracture is out!  It’s available at fine retail stores everywhere.  Go pick up a copy now and experience the joys of terrain deformation!  ;)

Ha-ha…I love this one.  Another animation I did for the 11 second club.  The trouble was I used up all my time animating the little kid’s dance and had to throw the father in at the last minute.  But I had fun animating the kid at least.

You can view it on YouTube.