Welcome to My Website...
Hello and welcome to Tommyvanimation.com. My name is Tommy Vogt and I am an aspiring character animator looking at landing my first job in the games industry. It has been a long time coming but I am finally ready to begin my journey of posting for jobs. You might ask, “Why the games industry?” Well the answer to that is because they have always been a huge inspiration to me and because I set this as one of my goals a long time ago. Don’t forget, that they are also fun! I love the interactivity that games provide and I think that as technology continues to improve there will be even greater room to really give characters even more personality than where they are at today. Please feel free to look around my site and I hope you enjoy the content I have posted here!
My workflow has been heavily influenced around the ideas and principals of traditional animation. I start most things out in Flipbook and get my poses, spacing, and timing down as much as possible. I was introduced to this workflow from a combination of people: Dimos Vrysellas (AM Mentor), Jason Ryan, and Keith Lango. There are many other animators who treat CG animation very similar to traditional animation, but these are the ones who have been most instrumental in my learning. The one thing that I have had to learn the hard way though is that CG is not traditional animation and the facts of that are clear once you start working in anything but stepped curves. Anyway, please feel free to look around my site, there are all kinds of things on here. I have my animation stuff, drawings, 3-d models, and more. Feel free to contact me if you have freelance animation work that you would like to discuss, or if you work at a studio and are impressed with my work! I am interested in any and all oportunites!
