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Stylite

Stylite is the product of a year and a half of work encompassing elements of 3D and 2D animation to create a single short film. The project is designed to leverage the best aspects of both styles and uses a myriad of applications to do so including: Blender, Toon Boom, After Effects, Premiere, and Photoshop. The Piece is currently going through the submitting process for film festivals however you are free to watch it below. Please enjoy.

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Stylite

Stylite is an animated short film about a young girl living by herself in a desolate and hostile environment. She is in search of a medicinal plant in an effort to cure her illness. She will encounter many biomes and obstacles in her effort to claim her prize.

This film was produced, directed, and animated by my self Adam Spelic

The score was composed by Turner Burton.

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Special Thanks - Beth Novak - Kate Raney - Brian Plow - Tyler Ayres - Kelly Shields

Also special thanks to the Ohio University Honors Tutorial College

Mortal Restaurant

Mortal Restaurant is a Group Capstone Project that I am leading. It encompasses a short skit in which an Octopus is a sushi chef at a restaurant. All of the patrons of the restaurant however, are also fish, so when the chef runs out of ingredients, he simply grabs one of the guests. The whole setting gradually descends into chaos and eventually the camera gets eaten by a shark. The idea is rather than 5 minutes of good animation, 40 seconds of amazing animation. 

I am project manager, lead animator, I have rigged all the characters, and I have made some of the environmental assets as well as some of the fish (the ones with turn-a-rounds). I am also responsible for the assembly of all the given assets into a convenient and well organized file fit for animating. I was also responsible for animating the first and final shots.

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Houdini Waterslide Tutorial

A Comprehensive step by step guide on how I created the waterslide animations you see below. Materials included for free.

Other Animations

Funky Finatics
03:25
Ashley Spelic

Funky Finatics

We find our lead character in the middle of stealing a special artifact that leads them into being chased through the streets of an alien city. Apologies in advance for crappy voice acting. Animation was done in Adobe Animate, After Effects, backgrounds were created in Photoshop, 3D animations were done in Blender, and video was compiled in Premier. Funky Fanatics is the first animation that I've done that's broken the three minute barrier. For the most part, the animation is now done in After Effects. While I think this can at times result in a bit of a janky look, I would never been able to do this in the time limit were it drawn frame by frame like the previous two animations There were certainly some sleepless nights tied to this animation but it was a huge amount of fun to make. I also tried some new things involving integrating some 3D animations into this 2D one which was super cool. The original test for this animation was accompanied by "N.Y. Rush" by the Seatbelts, which some may know as the band created for the OST of Cowboy Bebop. Of course this wasn't going to fly once the video was published on YouTube so we're back to our old friends Bensound. While I prefer "N.Y. Rush" I do think the new audio is hilarious and at a certain point, you can probably tell by the thumb nail, I was just having fun with this. Lastly yes, I don't like my voice acting either but at this point I can laugh at. Website https://cc21runner.wixsite.com/digitalart Royalty free music provided by Bensound.com "All That" https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/all-that-chill-hop "Funky Suspense" https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/funky-suspense "Groovy Hip Hop" https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/groovy-hip-hop
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