Ehhh, just some doodles from the past little while. I was trying out the Stumpy Pencil brush some weeks ago (the non-coloured doodles), really like it! Just need more time to draw for myself though. The orange haired girl was drawn with photo reference, but I changed it quite a bit anyway.
Been training my dogs for the past several weeks and it's super time consuming to try and rid them of their bad habits. Going out on long walks 3 times a day takes a lot outta ya, though it's very nice and extremely refreshing to be outdoors during the summer. I am so dreading winter.
Since it was due yesterday anyway, here's my iAnimate Workshop 1 Progress Reel. It's some pretty basic stuff, but I might as well post it! One more assignment in Workshop 1, though. I'll post it when it's done if it looks alright ;)
It's about time for an update! Boris and I have been taking classes at iAnimate since May and it's been going well so far. Will update with some animation later though, I'm sure nobody wants to see any bouncing balls.
Here's a few designs for a secret project Boris and I put ourselves in. It'll involve some model sheets of these guys (some or all, not sure) so if they turn out alright I'll probably post those up too sometime. It was fun to just draw whatever came to mind, since the designs were open to whatever we wanted to do.
At the moment the dialogue with the dragon design has been shelved (another thing shelved!? guh!), only because it didn't start off good, but I'll possibly do other dialogue with another character. Btw I named him Sam because Samwise's voice is who I picked in my head to voice him, and it just fits so well, lol!
Gifs are fun, but I had so much trouble just getting a good export :/ A long time ago I used to use a program called Animagic for making gif files (digmon blinks and stuff, ahah), it was excellent, but it's not really anywhere online anymore. Photoshop can't get an accurate frame rate, and even then I was still having trouble with it for some reason. I ended up having to do it in Flash, but I couldn't really change the quality much. Oh well.
I'm glad I did this walk though, I've noticed a lot of mistakes and there was a lot of trial and error with the tail, but I think it'll help the next time around I do one. Would love to do a run of this guy, but I gotta start on a dialogue test.
Here's a preview of the walk I'm working on. The playback is a bit off since it's a .gif and I'm still working on some little things that I've noticed and am not happy with (mainly the tail >:C ).
And at work right now, Boris and I are on a little project animating a children's book in flash (hand drawn in flash though). The book is illustrated by Tony Fucile, you can see some of the illustrations here: Bink and Gollie
Changed the design a bit. These are just rough and loose expressions, I'm working on a walk cycle and I can see already that he's changed in places again, but only slightly from these.
Couldn't find a good dialogue clip where I was hoping to find it, so I'll have to keep looking for something to fit this guy. If anybody wants to suggest a clip or an actor it might help! :D
(btw I changed him cause I felt he looked like Raichu too much before...hehe, but I'm much happier with him now)
So it's been a while since I've updated, shame on me, I know! D:
I never made a post about ctn, but the whole trip was a lot of fun! Meeting a lot of new people and listening to some amazing talent was so inspiring! Got to visit some really cool studios which was awesome too! All the artists I spoke to were so nice and it was great to meet everyone and just listen to stories! <3
So I had been trying to develop a character for a certain dialogue clip for a while after the new year, and it took a while to get somewhere that I was pretty happy with, though she's somewhat inspired by Madame Mim. But as it's happened in the past, I'm shelving the clip and character for later. It was a little long and I was planning on treating it like a part of a film, so I won't have much time to work on it right now. The older ones are at the top and they lead to the most recent at the right bottom corner.
Trying to find a simpler character to work with for some pencil tests, I drew this up quickly and really liked it, so I have an actor in mind for the dialogue, so I'll have to go through the film to see if there's something I could do with him (Edmund from Chronicles of Narnia)
And these are already a little old..had them on my desktop though so I figured I'd post them. They're just some development for another short-film-like project that I'll look into later if it's still interesting to me.
Leaving for CTN in a few days! Really excited, it's going to be awesome! :D
I did a really short dialogue test before leaving for LA since I currently don't have any dialogue in my reel. Tried it out on paper, but got really frustrated, I think because I didn't know how I wanted to compose the animation, so I tried it out in flipbook and just went with it.
Keys and breakdowns are pretty easy in flipbook, though inbetweening gets a little hard :/ But I like how quickly I was able to do the animation, so I'm definitely going to do some more tests in flipbook.
He's off-model in places, and I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it was fun, so I'm posting it.
Boris and I were asked by a friend to do some character designs for him, so these are some initial doodles trying to find a look and style for the female character. I haven't gotten the final design yet so there will be more girl drawings still.
Thanks for all the comments on my film! I'm glad it got a good response but I'm definitely ready to move on and do something different.
While waiting around for work to get figured out, I had planned on doing a Shere Khan animation, just a very short lip sync to get back into dialogue, but Shere Khan is really hard to draw D: Really. Hard. I watched Jungle Book, looked at all the model sheets I had, and screencaps, and maybe it was the stress of waiting around hoping that the job situation will work out, but I just couldn't get his likeness when trying to draw him on my own, and I didn't want the animation to be made up of only the drawings from the model sheet :S
Anyway, so I had planned on making my own model sheets for him, but I only got around to doing one, which might be way off anyway. Hah. But then I put that idea aside and decided to do something of my own creation first to get warmed up, so I picked a piece of dialogue and drew up this dog. And I have been dying to animate some animals since my film didn't have any (fish doesn't count).
I started planning out the shot but then work was starting, so for now it's put aside as well. So here are some drawings.
I do hope to get back to them when I have a moment 8)
I don't have -too- much to say about it except that is was a pretty good experience. It took me a long time to figure out the story and which direction to go in, and looking back at it, it seems so simple. Well! That's exactly what it wasn't; I needed to really simplify it, and eventually I did, but I think in the future if I make another short (and I hope to) it'll be much simpler. I wanted to focus on animating since I didn't have much in my demo reel animation-wise, so I'm glad I kept it at the rough stage. The story was a big challenge for me, but I did it and I learned a lot. So were the minimal bgs I have, Boris helped me with the establishing shot which I ended up cutting in closer to for other shots. Unfortunately I felt that my Sprite character ended up changing a lot from my original design, which I liked a lot more, and I found her difficult to draw for the most part, so I didn't enjoy animating her as much as I thought I would. She was the reason I chose to go forward with the story idea, but she ended up being the thing I left to the end because I wasn't excited to draw her. But in the end I think some of her shots turned out alright, so overall I think I'm satisfied with the work I did.
The pencil colouring turned out to be a lot more work than I was able to do for the deadlines, so I decided against it, although in some scenes Becky has rosey cheeks.
Also, there is pretty much no effects in my film. Again because of the time issue, but I also didn't really know where to start with effects and it's not something I wanted to worry about, especially since it still works with out them.
So I just wanted to thank Boris for helping me out when he could, it wouldn't have been done if he didn't help. Thank you to Dan Rodrigues who was amazing to work with, I think he did a great job with the music and such a short amount of time! And I wanted to thank all the people who helped me at some point, friends who gave me suggestions here and there and people who were gracious enough to ask if I needed any help even though I didn't ask! It really means a lot, thank you! <3
The industry deadline for the films is so close now (Monday!), yet I'm still hacking away at animation! Go go go!
Well here are some screenshots of the final look I ended up going with (I didn't have enough time to col-erase colour my frames, so only Beck has rosey cheeks in some scenes).
Oh and I thought this was pretty hilarious, since I was animating her without hair... I'll probably think it's stupid when I'm all good and rested.
This is what I'm shooting for my film's animation to look like, for that kind of sketchy feel since cleaning up my whole film really isn't an option and I've gotten excited for this look already so never mind cleanup.
And my main bg for the film, most of my other shots are cutting in closer to this one, which is great cause I'm not a fan of drawing layouts :p Yet I'll need to figure out how to make them match with my animation, so they'll have some kind of sketchy feel to them as well.
This is a workflow test for my film, but although I would love for it too look like this throughout, I know I won't have the time, so I'm going to find a way to make the rough animation work as a final look, which will give me a tiny bit more time to focus on the animation itself.
Okay not everything. But! New rough model sheets for my little girl character (Who I think I will call Becky) and the fishy C:
I think I'm happy with these as of now.
Some life drawing from my last portfolio. It's sad to know that there won't be anymore life drawing classes for the year. Hopefully we'll have enough time to go to some extra life in the second semester (I hope you all know who I'm talking about when I say "we", hehe).
And just a go at a baby elephant while Boris was doing design stuff for his chars.
That's all! Hopefully more will come soon 8)
