The Badger Speaks!

This animation is incomplete...  But yes, I'm planning on finishing it still.  This animation is for our muzzle-sync assignment.  I choose an audio-clip (from Night at the Museum) that had two characters speaking, because I wanted my muzzle and beak characters to interact.

Yes, I'm animating my beak for this too!  His poses are (ultra) roughly blocked in, just as a reference for the eye-level of the badger.  The background is also very... unresolved :P  But anyway, here's the animation for now.  Most of the badger stuff is done, but some of it is still rough.  Have a looksy:

Sketchbook Stories, 11

It's been forever since I've done a sketchbook post, so here's another one of those.  It's rather large too, because I have a whole bunch of random images from the past 2.5 months or so.   I've been obsessed with Milt Kahl hands lately, so I've studied  and drawn a whole bunch of those.  Besides that, there's a lot of layout studies here too.  All of those are Western related, so lots of horses, cowboys and stuff like that.

Another thing; I'm starting to put a little 'water-mark' stamp thing on my images from now on.  Maybe even a full-out water-mark at some point, but I'll try this for now.  Recently people have been telling me to do this, and recent talks at school have lead me to this.  It's basically just to claim that the work is mine, in case it gets posted somewhere else without me knowing about it.  Hopefully it doesn't look silly.

Alright, huge sketchbook dump:

Medieval People

I haven't posted anything in a while, so... I'm going to post something!

A big character design project this time.  The characters all had to be designed to come from a specific time period.  I choose medieval-Russia, which I really enjoyed.  I went through sooo much paper for this, it's insane!  Appealing female characters are really hard to do!  Besides that, I think the comic relief gave me the most trouble.  That and the villain's beard.

I'm not 100% happy with how the clean-up turned out.  The roughs were better: hopefully I can get the two on the same level someday.

Up is Down

More animation, whoopeeeee!!!

So I had to use a piece of dialogue from a film, show, or whatever and animate a character to it.  I ultimately went with a clip from Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End.  The animation took quite a while!  Basically for the past week whenever I had an hour to spare in which I wasn't sleeping, eating or in class, I managed to borrow someone's Cintiq pen and find a tablet to work on.  This was my first time animating in Toon Boom, which was interesting too.

Our acting teacher helped me to pick this voice-clip, because it was more subtle than the other clips I picked.  It was very hard to do subtle animation: especially since I still wanted the character to move around.  I'm still not totally satisfied with all the (non)subtle things, but I like it overall.  By the way, check out our acting teacher's blog over here.  I LOVE his lessons!

I'm Not Painting a Forest!

I painted a forest.

My 100th blog post, whooo!  Painting digitally is fun, but it's sooo easy to get caught up on details.  So yeah, this painting was our first one for second semester.  I did lots of little thumbnails, because I wanted to tell a little story with the painting as opposed to only doing an exterior landscape.  Whether or not the story is successful, I'm happy with the way it looks.  Gotta say a quick Thank You to Margaret for giving some helpful tips while I was working on this.  Her last name also happens to be an anagram of my first name!

I reaaally tried hard doing a different colour scheme for this painting, as I usually do a lot of blue stuff.  I tried that once last semester too, but it failed quite miserably, haha!  Anyway, Here's the final painting followed by a whole bunch of process work!

 

Forests...