
Animation Work
IM LOVE - an animated short-short
All production by Ryan Heiss, unless stated otherwise
This took me, from start to finish, about 10 weeks to complete. That included set modeling, modifying Josh Burton's Morpheus rig to look the way I wanted it to, lighting, texturing, prop rigging, compositing, sound design and editing, and finally packaging the whole thing into a DVD.
Produced in Autodesk Maya, post-production in Adobe After Effects
Nudeybeach Town
Another short-short! I do a lot of these.
I rigged the bear using a system of joint locators, I animated the sprites and the bear, I compiled the sound from various sources, and I modeled the sets.
In total, this took me 2 weeks to make, from conception to finish.
Super Apartment Bros. - EP 06: This Simulated Life
This was my first episode animating on Super Apartment Bros., directed by the amazing Eric Stover. For this episode, I was the sole animator and had to set up and categorize the massive sprite library of this show for myself. It had been a while since I had done any sprite animation, so this was a fun and interesting exercise for me.
This episode took me a while, about 3 1/2 weeks from blocking to full animation. I've gotten a lot faster since then.
Check out the Super Apartment Bros. Official Website! Click Here!
Super Apartment Bros.- EP 08:
Life EXP Earned
This was another episode I worked on for Super Apartment Bros., along with animator Juan Diego De Obarrio. This is the first episode in the series to be animated by 2 animators: I did the blocking for the whole thing and animated the first half, and Juan did the second half.
This episode took us both about 3 weeks from start to finish. School was getting heavy so it took a lot longer than it should have.
Check out the Super Apartment Bros. Official Website! Click Here!
Lynt- Senior Film
A short film by Ryan HeissA piece of lint living inside of a cardboard box struggles to save a reflective screw from unknown forces that are literally turning its world upside down, only to find that happiness can be found in acceptance rather than resistance.
All work was done by me, unless otherwise noted. Sound by: Kevin Hastings. For more info on my process, click on the link in the title.