Holy Crap, Look At This Guy...

I've actually had this animation finished for a while, I've just never gone and rigged up the camera to record a video of it until now.  It's a full character animation and I went ahead and filmed it from a couple angles so you can get a good look.  I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.  Obviously the texture work is pretty much nonexistent, but I was doing this purely for the animation aspect of it.  I will go ahead and say I did not make the base rig (the actual dude) but I did sculpt and rig up all of the armor around him myself as well as all of the scenery.  Since this is multiple videos, I'll put most if this after the jump.  Enjoy.

Here's some stills to kick things off.  Videos after the jump.

WitchcrAfter Effects

I've done animation on paper, in Flash, in Maya, and following this post, After Effects.  This came about after playing around with masks and flourish reveals.  All in all it's fairly simple but I'm happy with it.  Thats about it, have a look.

For those of you who were curious, the text is just the lyrics to "It Has to Be This Way (Platinum Mix)" from the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance OST.  It doesn't mean anything, its just what I was listening to when I made this.