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Hello There!

I'm Nickolouise! I'm a 2D Animator and Story Artist graduated at Auckland University of Technology, Bachelors of Art and Design.Since at a young age, I always love the art of storytelling and bring them to life.I spend a lot of my down time expanding original characters and explore their stories and concepts through doodles and discussions. Other than that, I'm a huge fan of puzzles and games that involve a lot of piecing things together, or just a bunch of cozy games to ease my mind.I'm a student of life and the arts, always pushing myself for improvement and learn more, so this portfolio will grow over the years of my journey :D!

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Animation Reel

Demo reel

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BREADCRUMBS

UNIVERSITY Year 3 | 2D short animation

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Bread Crumbs is an animated short for my 3rd year Animated Drawing class. It showcases the older sister Yona bringing her younger brother to a park to show him how to feed doves.

The characters here are originally from the capstone project: Corvus X Machina. This is a small exploration of the two characters in a light hearted twist set in a modern setting

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PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | Davinci Resolve

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CxM submission

CORVUS x MACHINA

UNIVERSITY Year 3 | Capstone group project

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CORVUS X MACHINA is a 3d animated capstone group project. The short film showcases a vengeful enforcer named Adriel, who hunts down those responsible for his sister’s murder.

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ROLES: Art Director, Character designs, Storyboards and Animatics.

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PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | 3D Coat | Autodesk Maya

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2D Flashback sequence is animated and directed by myself with coloring assistance of Alex Chen.

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SCRAPPED WORK

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Full Animatic
CxM scrapped Act

UNRELIABLE HEALING

UNIVERSITY Year 2 | 2D Lip-sync assignment

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Unreliable Healing is a 2D animated lip-sync exercise that involves interviewing a friend of mine. The context is her talking about how If I were a magic user and offered healing, she won't trust me one bit.

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PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | Davinci Resolve

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CITY STROLL

UNIVERSITY Year 2 | Walk-cycle assignment

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City Stroll is a short walk-cycle loop animation where I explore how to establish a character's personality through a walk cycle.

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PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | Davinci Resolve


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roughpass destined

DESTINED

UNIVERSITY Year 2 | Animated Documentary

"Destined" is a short animated documentary featuring my mother who I interviewed for this assignment. The short tells her story about her high-school experience in the Philippines with her friend of how she predicted the boy she'll marry in the future.

PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | Autodesk MAYA | Davinci Resolve

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ROUGH ANIMATIONS

Upside Down dance - Rough draft

Upside down dance trend - rough excercise

Upside Down dance - Rough draft

20k followers achievement for instagram

Love and Lenses Rough Pass

kawaii kaiwai trend - unfinished rough

Upside Down dance - Rough draft

Fan work based of Fan-comic : Myth of the Machine - unfinished rough

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COMMISSIONED WORKS

Chenata COMM - rough

Chenata's COMMISSION - rough pass

Chenata COMM - final

Chenata's COMMISSION - Final output

Beno COMM - clean up

Beno's COMMISSION - clean pass

Upside Down dance - Rough draft

Beno's COMMISSION - Final output

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MISFITS OF ESKENWALD

fake-opening concept project

Characters are all based from a Dungeons and Dragons online party with a bunch of friends.
Shenanigans are based from a silly one shot we played.
I wanted to have a little more fun with the characters we had by making a fake intro like in animated shows.

Misfits of Eskenwald

The song provided is not an official use for this concept as this is just a personal project.

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DOLION and BRENNAN

character dynamic exploration

This is a quick 1 day project where I try to explore character acting and showcase dynamics about two characters that me and my friend had; Brennan and Dolion.The audio itself is clipped from a podcast, which sparked this exercise due to the bickering it had.

Soup Etiquette

Original audio is from The Basement Yard podcast.

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" LOVE AND LENSES "

Year 2 | Creature Project

PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | Autodesk Maya

Love and Lenses is a 3D animated group project with Corina Huang, Sofia Aizon, and Charll Enriquez.

The short film is a nature documentary inspired animation where it introduces Jeremy, The Bone-Jawed Lizard, who's trying his best to woo a mate. Unbeknownst to him that the mate he tries to woo is just a decoy robot to record wildlife unsuspectedly.

Contribution
I contributed mostly on post-production - Concept Art, Animatic, Rough Pass.
But I've done some minor support work when it comes to setting up initial lighting alongside 3D animation and textures.

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Concepts and development

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Rough Pass walkcycle exploration

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ANIMATIC AND ROUGH ANIMATION


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