Thesis short - Rupee Run!

Just put up my thesis online, hope you enjoy!

Rupee Run from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

Thesis

Will be releasing my thesis film from Ringling shortly!

follow https://www.facebook.com/RupeeRun/ for more updates!

new piece!

Internship WIP from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

LAIKA Internship

Super excited to share that I am interning at LAIKA, the makers of Coraline, Paranorman and Boxtrolls as a CG Animation Intern in their VFX department. Also excited to work on my first feature production experience, Kubo and the two strings, coming out in the later half of 2016!

2015 Demo reel!

2015 animation demo reel (WIP) from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

self caricature lipsync!

I love Batman, and its super fun to imitate Christian Bale's Batman. So for our self caricature lipsync assignment at school I designed myself as a 7 year old kid dressed up as Batman.

catwoman chase from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

Bat-Tarun from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

cookies from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

And here's some design process work. I may or may not add the cape in later CG tests as I found it can be pretty distracting and hides some of the animation.

More Bat -Tarun animation to come soon

Drama- DFA final

Push pull!

Learnt a lot from this assignment, it was fun. 

Hoping to fix a lot of issues over the winter

push pull from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

The concept changed a lot since the started on this project...

                                                                           my final animatic and the blocking pass to show some process

DFA Value Painting

Just finished up our latest assignment in DFA!

some process thumbnails...

Customers?

Tried to explore subtler acting with this piece and found it extremely challenging. I don't think I was completely successful but it was a great learning experience.

Waiting from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

Ran out of time before I could try to match the final render to the paintover

Drawing For Animators

first assignment of the year for DFA class

Junior year!

Just finished up on the first animation assignment of junior year! 

Silhouette from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

some random thumbnails and notes

and some random sketches of my teacher during class

Shane Kreiger

Over the summer my friend Andrew and I worked on this character project which turned out to be too big to complete before college started again. We may or may not ever get to finish it, but I just thought i'd post about it anyway. We both developed the idea, Andrew did a great job modeling it and I designed and rigged it. I was also going to animate it based on the thumbnails I did below but barely got started on the blocking. With only a standin jacket and no pants or textures, the character is still pretty unfinished. ( He does have some nhair facial hair though :O) But we did have a lot of fun working on it!

break from 3d land

new test!

little test I did over the summer to try out acting and dialogue. Learned a ton!

fracture from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

new character!

My friend Andrew and I are collaborating on a little summer project. I designed this guy and Andrew will be modeling it and hopefully he will be animated soon!

samurai cat doodle

back in 2d!

This was pretty fun to do. Inspired after re-watching some dragonball z.

cat

trying new stuff on ps