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.