Alexander Poon

Artist, PlaygroundSquad 2017

I'm an aspiring animator who has a passion for expressive and exciting animations, especially combat.


SHOWREEL


PROJECTS

These are the student projects I've worked on during a period between nine and five weeks respectively.


During project two, Gill & Gull, I :

  • was main animator who animated all characters.
  • was lead graphic artist, keeping my three colleagues updated and informed our plans and process. Made weekly plannings together with the design and programmer leads to sync.
  • was the technical animator and enabled us to use one rig for both of our characters with different dimensions. See here a short video of the rig.
  • created a one-click script in python to export the characters rig and animation in dedicated formats and settings.
  • created the in-game HUD of death and coin count as well as coordinated the HUD animations.
  • created our in-game HUD font.
  • made the games VFX.
  • made character and environment concepts.
  • made extensive research of platform game graphic's do's and don't.
  • directed the post-processing of our PBR cube map, tone mapping, death trigger and vibrancy.
  • Came up with the slogan of our game, "Fail fun".

Documentation of animation and rig of can be found here.



During project one, Primetime Bathing, I :

  • acted as lead graphic artist and art director. I coordinated the two graphic artist's expertise to fit the game graphics.
  • was main animator that animated all characters and vehicles.
  • coordinated with our technical artist when creating rigs.
  • was the main conceptual and texture artist.
  • created the accessories for each character.
  • was our main lighting artist.


PRIMARY SKILLS

  • Keyframe animation
  • Motion Capture
  • 2D animation
  • Riggning & Skinning
  • 3D modeling
  • concept art
  • Texturing
SOFTWARE

  • Maya
  • Motionbuilder
  • Substance Designer/Painter
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Unreal Engine
  • Unity
  • xNormal
Project Management

  • Lead Artist
  • Scrum
  • Trello 
  • Toggl

When no one is looking i enjoy:

  • Sketch and draw for my grand comic book idea
  • Read epic Chinese novels
  • Find new food stuff and places to dine
  • Learn new skills of varied subjects, latest one has been to be able to sleep under less than 10 minutes.