New Website

I have a website set up now! Head over to faranakkeshmiri.porfoliobox.net to check out my reel, resume, and other work.

Snow Brawler

For ani 118b, one of the things we are working on is a partnership with UCSC to make video games. I am on a team of about 10 people, making a 3D console first person shooter. That is a snowball fight. As the only 3D group, we had the unique challenge of needing to make our own rigs. I volunteered to tackle that, and learned a lot about the inner working of maya and unreal as a result. It's still in progress, but we had an art update a week ago, and we collected all the assets to present to the directors of our programs. Character model was done by Christian Castro, character textures by Carly Hudson, and I rigged the characters with some help from Brian Anderson.

Release Your Inner Bubble!

For our 100W class at San Jose State we all made short films! Everyone pitched ideas and we voted for the best. I pitched an advertisement for tapioca milk tea, and was one of three directors picked :D! I got to work with an awesome eight person team comprised of animators, actors, and film students.

Pumpkin Stop Motion

I did a little stop motion about a bully pumpkin for my physics of animation class. 

Haunted House

In ani 128b we had to come up with a short story based on the idea of a hunt. My team was Jessica Hill, Diana Martinez, and Tes Wroblewski. My shot is the one where she pulls herself up and opens the door :) Some of the scenes still need to be tweaked, but it's pretty far along at this point.

Thief, 128a Final

Here's our final short from 128a! We had a really great team of people working on this, and I'm excited to take 128b with them next semester!

Ani 128a reel

Here's my final reel from Ani 128a. We had to compile everything thing we did this semester, including the weekly poses and quick studies.

Holographic Hassel, 114 Final

This was my final for Ani 114. Emperor Palpatin has some trouble with his holographic projector communication thingy. Done in Flash.

Palpatine Exploration

Here was some character stuff for my Ani 114 final.

Character Exercise, 114

114 project. Leslie Knope gets back some paperwork. Done in Flash.

Character Test, 114

Character test for Ani 114. I picked Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec. Done in Flash.

Dorm

From our living room

113B Final

We had to pick two words, and paint two landscapes based on them. My words were wonder and foreboding.

113B studies

Some studies from 113B

in class speed paint

a couple of plein airs

People and Parrots

random pen stuff

113B plants

Pine cone and tree studies from 113B

Magazine Speed Paint

Figures 2

Some more from last semester

day out

Some stuff from the levee

Alum Rock Speed Paint