Holy shit, I love this! A video featuring No Fixed Abode’s “Cause an Effect”, directed by Heath Ledger. Shot on a shoestring budget in Ledger’s garage in Australia. It’s a fantastic display of artistry in both the music and visuals. Both accentuate the other — fantastic on their own and brilliant together. I’m going to [...]

This is a quickie example of a dynamic skirt rig made for Snow Clone Troopers on the TV show Clone Wars.  It can blend between keyframed and dynamic, with the motion of the keyframed animation affecting the dynamic motion to whatever percentage you want. This technique was adopted to a number of other subsequent skirt/dress [...]

Hey all.  Tomorrow I start working at 2K Marin, a video game developer in Novato as their Character TD.  It’ll be an awesome experience.  2K Marin, back when they were in Boston known as, strangely enough, 2K Boston, made the award winning Bioshock and we’re going to continue in that fine tradition on Bioshock 2. [...]

Alec Fredericks CharacterTD/Animation resume (UPDATED!) OK, so my demo reel is pretty frickin’ old by now — this one is from 2007. It’s missing Spiderwick Chronicles from my time at ILM, Clone Wars from LucasFilm, and Bioshock 2 & XCOM stuff from 2K Marin. I’ll get that stuff flowing in the near future. Watch the [...]