More animations from the animation papers from the animation tables in the animation studio in the animation program at animation animation animation!
I don't know why I did that :P Yes, animation takes a lot of time, but, if spent well, it's totally worth it! Here's the second animation assignment of second year (second second second)! The weight lift and toss took a lot of planning and thinking in order for the object to appear heavy, but I loved animating the character! It's like your own character starting to move and act. It's still pretty rough, and I didn't even have time to do the extra animation bit at the beginning, so I just kept in the key frames for that part. Hope you like it!
I was going to upload my 3D Maya walk cycle as well, but YouTube made the video all funny looking :| Hopefully I'll have it up shortly, along with some other, highly necessary updates!
Hellooooooow!!! So I did another gouache painting! The first assignment of the school year required us to do a painting in any traditional medium, and since I have come to like gouache over the last year, that's what I stuck with for this project. So yeah, the project was an exterior study. I tried implementing eye-direction in this piece, so I hope it worked! Hope you like it :)
So, I haven't updated for a super long time! It's mainly because of the crazy amount of work that we've been assigned in our second year of animation already. It's all amazing to do though, so it's definitely worth it. Anyway, this is one of those posts that contain a lot of different things. I've got the feeling more of those will be happening this year, as I might not be updating as frequently. I'll definitely try though.
Okay, first off... Life drawing! Not too much here yet: I'll save the actual newsprint life drawings for a soon-to-come post, but here are some sketchbook drawings that I did with a brush-pen. People keep telling me to upload some, so here goes:
Next up is the first character design assignment. I studied quite a bit of Ratatouille concept work for this (I love that movie!), and it definitely helped me a lot. I did a whole bunch of short quick sketches before finalizing the design, which was a lot of fun to do. Gotta give a little thank you to Ricardo for critiquing my action poses and helping me make them stronger.
Our first animation assignment of this year was the wave, boat and floursack cycle. Doing the wave in 3/4 quarter view was challenging, as a lot of thought needed to go in where every frame of the wave, boat, sack and splash should be in perspective. I'm not overly fond of the water detail, but I no time to change it. Oh well; I'm happy with the outcome.
Here are a whole bunch of drawings from our last two zoo trips. I scanned them on two different scanners, so the colours are a little bit different here and there. Oh well :) Free coconut water was handed out at the zoo two weeks ago. That was when I found out that I don't really like coconut water.
So for the past week I've been studying a bit more animal anatomy, but mainly that of the cat family. I am by no means an expert, but I must say that it did help me quite a bit at the zoo yesterday. It was a lot of fun, as was the first week of school! I'm super excited for this year: everything about it is just... magical, haha!
The first image is a compilation of a whole bunch of animal studies, and the second image is all zoo drawings. Some of the scans turned out really light, so in order to darken the lines a bit, a few artifacts were made visible. Nothing too bad though; I hope it doesn't bother anyone.
So, this was the last zoo trip for the summer, and therefore this will also be the last animal post. It will probably also be my last post of the summer before school starts again (Tuesday), so expect lots of schoolwork again from then on.
As for the zoo trips, I hope to go to the zoo lots of times throughout the schoolyear still, because my skill-level is not even close to where I hope to be. However many times we'll be going, I don't know: It all depends on the schedule, homework, etc. I do hope to go as often as possible, so, who knows, maybe we can keep up the summer pace :) I probably won't be posting zoo drawings after every trip anymore, but I'll do compilations every now and then. Until then, have some of today's drawings: not my greatest drawings ever (that tiger...), but critiques are always welcome.
