Daryl Rhys Taylor 2015 6th September Showreel

A slightly updated showreel for September 2015.
Containing
1) Animation Tests for Digital Shoguns
2)One More Beer Test
3) David Mitchell Animation
4) Red Bull Canimation

Daryl Rhys Taylor trixxie pushing 24

Daryl Rhys Taylor trixxie fighting 18

Daryl Rhys Taylor trixxie jump 16

Daryl Rhys Taylor trixxie walkcycle 12

Animation Practice

These are some animation tests I have done to practice and try and get back into animation.


Small Flash animation test. Hand drawn in the software using my character Diggory Sparrow. Voice: David Mitchell Ps. If this doesn't play for you I'm sorry but I don't know why. Something went iffy with the Youtube. Diggory Sparrow is copyright Daryl-Rhys Taylor 2013
UNFINISHED! I have tried my hardest to fix this and I am simply stuck. If anyone has any helpful tips please let me know. Using a rig by Joel Anderson, find his work on www.joel3d.com. Voice: Rachel Stevens
Raptor Run cycle in Maya Animation Test
Walkcycle test in Maya
Animation Test using Koko dog rig

Maya Modelling and Rigging Not found Success

I really tried hard the last month to try to model and rig a few characters for animation purposes. I know people get sick of seeing the same rigs on reels and I really tried, using a lot of tutorial from a website called Rigging 101. 

I learnt a lot. That being said I'm still not a modeller or a rigger (I don't enjoy it much) and even though these are to the best of my abilities they just do not come up to level expected for a professional reel. I am quite disappointed that I wasted all this time. 

Now I really don't know what to do with animation. To be quite honest, my heart has not really been in it for a while. After endless job rejections and starting accountancy as a back up because of all those rejections,  it's hard to get motivated to animate.

Oh I knew + Update to new idea

A little animation I started to practice for the John Cleese animation, so I decided to finish it. My work can be found online at www.daryl-rhystaylor.co.uk.



An update to my new idea that I have been tinkering with. The description is in the picture.

Other Random Doodles

It turned into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Kevin Eastman is a real nice guy.

John Cleese animation Starring Tag the Bunny

I was advised by Spider Eye to practice using the symbols to animate in Flash. This is the result. Hope you like it.

Flash Tests and other doodles

Some images from some tests I am conducting in Flash.

Random Doodles

New Showreel

Here is my new showreel. It's much like the old one but with my red bull canimation entry added to it.

My website

Espresso Animation + Kodama-kun Work

This is work I can show you for the Kodama-kun game I have been helping my friend Dan make. This is a rejected design of the Kappa Boss. The final design has been finalised and I have done a lot of pencil animations for both the Kappa and Kodama himself.

Work I did whilst visiting Espresso Animation. Thanks Phil.

New showreel

Visit http://www.daryl-rhystaylor.co.uk.

My new showreel

1. 11 second Club May 2010 competition. Animated by me.

2. 11 Second Club November 2010 competition. Animated by me.

3. Sneak Walk-cycle. Animated by me.

4. Personal Animation. Animated and drawn by me.

5. 11 Second Club December 2010 contest. Animated and drawn in Flash by me.

6. Animation Test for Reverge Labs. Does NOT represent final game. Drawn and Animated by Me.

7. Dog walk-cycle. Animated and drawn by me.

8. Animatic for personal project. Drawn and boarded by me.

11 second club Lip-sync Animation

Well, I have tried to finish it. It has reach the point where for the life of me I'm not sure what to do and I've looked at it so many times that I don't know if it is any good or not. Therefore I decided to finish it to the best of my abilities and render it out. Hope it's ok.

New 2D animation and some pictures

Some quick sketches from the past few weeks.

Some Superhero favourites.

The entire cast for my Doodleboy and the Toons idea.

Fot the DAC Mike Mignola Challenge.

Here is some 2D lip-sync I did. I drew it straight into flash with a wacom tablet. Unfortunately it flickers too much. I'm going to have to redraw it. Oh well.

Sneak Animation

I finished that sneak animation a while ago but forgot to put it up because I busy with some lip syncing animation.

2D Animation

Some work I did whilst visiting Espresso Animation.

New Youtube Videos

A head Turn I did when I spent the day at Espresso Animation. Thank you so much Phillip.



A comparison between a 2D and 3D walk cycle.

The 3D walk cycle was done wit the help on Eric Goldberg's book Character Animation Crash Course and the 2D walk cycle was done when I spent the day at Espresso Animation. Thank you Phillip.



Just some storyboards I did recently. I wanted to board and action scene where two fights where going on a the same time that had nothing to do with each other.

Work for Droomwevers

Artwork and Animation Frames I have created so far for the Droomwevers project.

Practice flash animation walkcycle

Runners job at Passion PIctures and Animation Station Storyboard Reels

Firstly some good news. I have got a trial day as a runner at Passion Pictures this Wednesday. Hopefully this will lead to something. I'm quite nervous.

Secondly my pal Simon has edited my storyboards for the first three episodes of Animation Station. There is no sound but it should give you a general idea. We are of course re-writing some of these. No idea is perfect.

I was going to put them up here but they are mp4 files and they didn't seem to work right when I uploaded them.

I converted it into a quicktime file.

Does anyone remember ages ago I was doing work on the logo for Trisori Limited. Well it went nowhere. But I did something for it so I used it to practice in flash. This is strictly a practice walk cycle. I know I made it wrong in flash, but practice makes perfect right.