Equipment These Days!
2003 Ringling School of Art and Design

The objective: To create a 12 second short after creating a character that has no mouth and big eyes, that has to lift,
push, or pull an object to demonstrate weight and potray a sense of thought and believability. The Result: I thought a knight
would be perfect for this exercise, because the helmet would conceal his mouth, and he could be lifting anything from a dragon
he just slayed to a shield that happens to be too big for him.

 

Here's a still from the final render:

And the hero, Olaf:

This is the painting I did that inspired Olaf's final design.