Lively Layout

So yeah, this post has both life drawing and layout in it.  Yay!  A lot of the life drawing is from the first quarter of second year's first semester (nice and confusing).  I don't have too much to say for the introduction, so here goes!

These pretty much go up from 30 seconds to 10 minute poses.  Some of these I like more than others, but it's always good to see what parts of the body I still need to improve on (everything, haha!).

This is what happens when you get one of those evil metal pieces in your Conte sticks.  They're really hard to get out, and they will probably ruin a page of newsprint or three in the process... Blah!

These are all from the Royal Ontario Museum!  The first page is gestures, ranging from 10 to 15 minutes in length.  The middle one is a study which took me... three hours?  And then the addition of three muscles on top is what the third image is.  Neat assignment!

I drew a horse!  I had a limited amount of time for this one, since I had to work between classes which meant I had to leave my elective class early.  The teacher was okay with that though, so all went well :)  Sorry for the bad cellphone-camera quality on this one: it's the best I could do before submitting the drawing.

And now for layout!  Basically, throughout the semester so far, our (awesome) layout teacher has assigned us to draw chairs and cars.  Eventually we also had to add characters to these chairs and cars.  Here's a compilation of all the drawings I did.  Some are better than others, so there's always room for improvement!

And finally, our first "official" layout assignment of the year, for which had to take three of four given thumbnails, research them and draw them at a larger, more refined scale.  After cleaning the drawings up, we rendered them with markers.  I haven't touched markers for several years (and even before that, I only really used them once or twice), but it was actually really nice to do!  Anyway, I hope you like 'm!

And that's all for today!  I finished another character design assignment as well, but I haven't had the chance to scan those yet, and they're currently with the teacher.  I have copies of the rough versions which I can use for referencing my animation though, so all should be good there.  Have a good day, all of you!

Yay, Storyboarding Post!

So I haven't really done any major storyboarding posts in the past, so I figured I'd put these up.  These were our first assignments for 2nd year storyboarding in first semester.  Though far from perfect, I figured I'd upload them, because I still like 'm ;)

First up are character line-ups and story beats for two short nursery rhymes that were given to us at the beginning of the semester.  I had some major scale/perspective issues with the "After the Bath" cockroach, but it ended up being an asset in the final storyboards of that poem.

And here are the final storyboards of the "After the Bath" story.  Quite a few changes were made overall, but I'm happy with the final outcome of the story.  I definitely learned a lot throughout this process.

Rats and Shiny Objects

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!

Gouachy Gouachy Gouach!

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 :)

Process work, yay!

And Second Year Begins!

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.

And finally some sketchbook pages from this week!