Demo Reel

Andrew Salo Demo Reel 2017 from Andrew Salo on Vimeo.

My Demo Reel updated to June 2017. Including a lot of my graduate school work at Ball State University.

Stop Motion Reel

Stop-motion Reel from Andrew Salo on Vimeo.

A Demo Reel made up of a lot of the for fun projects I have worked on while in graduate school.

Leave A Mark

Leave a Mark from Andrew Salo on Vimeo.

A young man desperate to make his mark on society decides to do so at any cost.

a re work of a previous project, https://vimeo.com/162297743 , following 5 obstructions given by a peer. The Obstructions were.

Have your characters be more unique or easy to identify
Add more animations to certain dead moments of the film
Upgrade or improve the backgrounds somehow
Use your "Canadian" voice to narrate
Have a shorter film, condensing it.

49 Hour Project

49hour_2016("That WIll Leave A Mark") from Andrew Salo on Vimeo.

A stop motion film made based on the prompt "that will leave a mark" created within a 49 hour time frame. music from The Builder Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

A short film I made for the 49 hour competition by MG Collective April 8th 2016. To my knowledge the contest was never judged, but I have seen some of the other videos from it posted recently so I figured I would put mine up.

My main goal for this project was to see how much I could get done in a short amount of time. I did all the set up and animation within about a 24 hour window, and came up with the story and comped it together and did audio with the rest of the time. I am fairly satisfied with how it turned out. I would definitely like to revisit it someday when I have the time to make the sets and characters more detailed, and iron out the finer details of the story itself.

Let me know what you think.

Dairy Land

DairyLand from Reanna Miller on Vimeo.

DairyLand is a fun, charming game, but has to be played by Moogie the Cow's rules...or else.

Collaborative stop motion short film created at Ball State University, directed by Jacob Dudley. Animators: Christopher Dobbs, Reanna Miller, and Andrew Salo. Produced by James "Andy" Beane.

Sealed With A Kiss

Sealed with a Kiss from Reanna Miller on Vimeo.
Travis is very much in love with Peggy, and what better way to show it than with something plump and cuddly.

3D short film created at Ball State University, directed by Christopher Dobbs. Animators: Jacob Dudley, Reanna Miller, and Andrew Salo. Produced by James "Andy" Beane.

BSU Animation Holiday Card 2014 from Ball State University Animation on Vimeo.
Happy holidays from the Animation Major at Ball State University.

Animated Christmas Card done for Ball State Univirsity.  I modeled textured and animated the background and tree.  Followed the director's preference on making the tree look somewhat like a tin tree.

Andrew Salo from Ball State University Animation on Vimeo.
Graduate Experimental animation Fall 2014 that was themed “Darkest Season”.

An experimental animation I did for graduate school.  I was trying to us as much paint effects as possible to try to experiment with the tool.  The character rigs are from creativecrash.com.

Senior Project

My Senior Project.  I am not very happy with most of the animation in it, but I am pretty happy with how the style stuff turned out.  I was mostly doing the texturing and lighting.  The scenes I animated are in my Reel.  I did the texturing for everything but the Brute and Kid characters, and I did all of the Lighting/Render style stuff.

2D penciltests

Compilation of pencil drawn 2D animations from Fall semester 2012 from Andrew Salo on Vimeo.

A few assignments from my drawing for animation class last semester.   They are not cleaned up drawings.  A run cycle for a rat, a character turn around, a human run cycle and a human jumping forward in space.  

Lighting Interiors

A few scenes I lit for practice this past fall.  Didn't do any of the modeling/texturing.

Ezer

"Ezer Kenegdo" from Jonathan Letonek on Vimeo.

The Junior  Project film I worked on this year.  I wasn't really involved in the story at all, but I did most of the environments(not the rocks in the beginning or the green symbols on the walls in the colloseum).  I designed modeled and rigged the dragon, and I did all the lighting and half the animation.  I did not do any of the textures.   I did not have as much time as I would have liked to work on the animation or lighting, but overall I am happy with it. 

Laundromat

My final project for Stop Motion Class.  It was the first time I had used the puppet.  I like how the set turned out.  Hope you enjoy it.

Rope 10 Second Club

A 10 Second Animation in which the goal was to use a wire that looked like rope to try to simulate rope.

Wind Up Toy Scene

The wind up toy scene with rough sound.

Wind Up Toy

This is a character I made for a school project. It is a wind up toy turtle playing the trombone.