Been busy busy with school stuff! I'm not entirely sure if I'm keeping up right now or catching up... hahaha. Anyways, as much as I want to keep updating my blog I have to remember that the important part is not the actual update, but the drawing I'm doing. But still, I'd like to discipline myself too, it's not just black and white I guess. 

Anyways, school doodles! I feel really rusty for some reason? I need to doodle more!

And a bunch of life drawing stuff. We're studying the muscles in the torso right now, I'm already learning A LOT from these studies since I've never been very good at drawing torsos. 

BACK TO WORK

I finally remembered to export my animations!

So here's my side step animation. I'm not very happy with it, I originally planned a very elaborate antic at the begining but I really failed at pulling it off haha, so it starts off a little weird because of that. Its all around pretty sloppy haha but I really learned a lot from it! I feel like now I could animate something way better than this already.

And here's the whip animation! This one went better than the side step, but it's still pretty wonky and rough, but I'm definitely making some progress with character animation. The whip itself doesn't work at all, I didn't plan everything out well enough. Anyways, I learned a LOT from this one especially.

We has a fun little inbetweening project, it was really fun! So here's what I managed to animate with 3 Lion King keys, the rest are all my drawings. The last two loops are a bit slower, I think it's fun to be able to see each drawing individually, not to mention it's such a short blip of an animation.

And now we're working on our profile walk cycles, here's a rough outline of what I'm doing right now. Still a lot of bugs to fix, but I'm hoping with everything I've learned so far that I'll be able to make this one demo reel worthy, which is the whole point of doing these assignments in the first place! 

 Haven't had much time to draw in my sketchbook, hopefully if I can get ahead in my work I'll be able to play around with my own personal projects, I need to start preparing for convention season too, got myself a table at Animaritime this year again wooo! Hoping to get one at Halcon too! 

Also, Minecraft is really fun.

So I've got some rough designs worked out for my Wild West Animatic, I have a rough idea of the story too. This project should be a fun one!

Here's the main character, a barber dude.

This guy's design was super rushed hahaha, hopefully I can nail down something nice before I run out of time

In clean up class we're inbetweening some keys of Simba from Lion King (we got them from Dan Gracey who was an animator for Lion King, we have the permission needed to work with these of course. We'll be doing a workshop with him next week! Excited!). It's a really fun project anyways! We got 3 keys of Simba (I think it's when he sings "it means no worries" in Hakuna Matata) and we're required to do at least 2 inbetweens, but I'd like to make it look finished so I'm going to be doing a lot more. But, here are my two main breakdowns. I exported these from flipbook but they're tiny for some reason hahaha, oops! 

Nice clean lines have never been my strength, but I'm still aiming for a Disney quality line. Of course I don't actually expect a Disney quality line hahahaha, I'm more concerned over the spacing and timing of the actual animation anyways.

His ears look so funny on this one, trying to add some flexibility and stretch when he's shaking his head.

Man I keep forgetting to export my side step and whip animations from flipbook, I'll have them up on my next update which should be friday haha

Finalizing the design for my profile walk character, I called her Julie I guess haha. Her design is pretty much my "default female character", decided to go with a body type I'm really comfortable with so I can get a really nice looking walk cycle!

Working on some designs for our next animatic project, set in the wild west! Going to have lots of fun with these ones

All done my action pose painting! Felt really good to finish a painting for once, I'd love to pick it up some more if I can find the time.

Man I cannot wait till spring! 

Been working on lots of different stuff over march break, mostly my animations at school. Hoping to be able to put those up soon!

Here are some quick doodles of a character design idea

more derpy Simba!

Decided to line this Link drawing in illustrator real quick, just for fun

In the end I decided to draw another action pose of Brie since the other one wasn't very dynamic, I like this one a lot more!

Here's what it looks like right now, having a lot of fun with it!

In clean up class we need to draw an action pose and render it. So I chose my new character Brie and decided to render her in a more "3D" look (easier to paint that way). Honestly I prefer a more graphic look for her, but this is going to be fun to paint too!

Here are some exploratory sketches I did for the pose

Been playing lot's of wind waker, probably my favorite game EVER. Breaks my heart that I'm too broke to buy a Wii U so I wont be able to play the pretty remake waaaaaaa. 

We'll be inbetweening some Simba keys from Lion King in clean up class, so I need to practice drawing him! Gotta get a handle on the line quality too, def going to be a challenge.

I never got around to posting my side step since I was so ashamed of it HAHA, but hey, I learned a lot. It's not finished yet and it's pretty weird looking, but I'll be fixing it over march break, so hopefully I can get it looking good!

And here is my whip animation! It's not done either (the whip is obviously all wrong at the end) and I need to do more inbetweening, but I learned SO MUCH from this assignment it's crazy. For one of my first attempts at character animation it's not half bad! Really tried my best to get all those secondary actions in there, but it is tooough. What I learned from the most was the planning stage, which is probably the most important part. The first half of the assignment was really bumpy, but once I sat down and found a way to plans things out that worked for me, it went really fast! 

 Earlier this week I came up with a really fun little story idea about a little girl named Brie who's queen of the sea-monkeys in her magic fish tank! Been having a ball just doodling different ideas for designs, nothing is final and it's all just for laughs haha, but I'll def be working on this little project a lot from now on.

Here are some exploratory designs, trying to push myself to try different styles and looks

Some very rough Sea-monkey design ideas. Haha I have no idea if "Sea-Monkeys" are copyrighted or not, I tried looking it up but didn't really come up with anything. I mean, this is just a fun little personal project anyways, and if ever it's a problem I'll just parody sea-monkeys instead with something like sea-donkeys or Sea-chimps or something haha.

Another character idea, still super rough!

We started our next animation project at school: the profile walk! Working on a design for my character, I want it to be as finished and final looking as possible, this one is going to be fun! Once I finish my whip animation (should be done over march break) I'll post that one too.

SO I DISCOVERED THE MAGIC THAT IS ILLUSTRATOR. Haha I've never been very good at getting a nice clean line, so I've been messing around trying different tutorials I found on the internet. So I picked one of the Brie designs and lined it in illustrator! Took the lines over to photoshop and added some simple colors. I'm so bad at picking colors HAHA

More lines done in illustrator, flat colors in photoshop. This was one of the drawings I did for the 10 styles assignment, this one was supposed to be in the style of Ren and Stimpy, sort of? haha

AND. HERE THEY ARE. My animatics. I've been pushing off posting these since foreveeerrr hahahaaaaaa ha =w=

So here's the first one, the fosters home animatic. MY FIRST EVERANIMATIC AND STORYBOARDS EVER IN MY LIFE. EVER. Omg some of the drawings are SO bad hahaha, terrible editing job on my part, and I had no idea what I was doing for the "animations", it was my first time using final cut pro X haha.

I suppose I should stop making excuses and just suck it up. 

AND YES I DID THE VOICE FOR FRANKIE. Which is probably why I put off posting this thing for so long hahaha. Listening to my own voice is just, so, wrong, and just, that's not how I sound in my head, and I'm no voice actress, but aaaaanyyyyywaaaaays. 

So here's my second one! I felt more at ease working on this one since I kinda knew what to expect, but there's still a ton of really weird derpy stuff going on haha, but overall I'm satisfied. This is the last part of a 3 part animatic, the two first parts were made by some of my classmates. We were asked to write scripts for a short "hero's journey" story, my instructor chose a few of the scripts and assigned teams to create storyboards/animatics for them. So I actually wrote the script for this myself, which was pretty neat! We decided to go with a Fosters Home style since we were already familiar with it, and we were each assigned a character to design. I designed the lead character Jeff! 

So obviously the story doesn't really stand too well on it's own in just my section haha, and it's pretty corny and generic blaah blah, but it was fun!

At the beginning of the story it's established that the dude in the car is one of Jeff's teachers, also the final scene in the hallways is also established in the first scene. It's completely blank and barren, which, y'know, yeah, shy little dude gets over his shyness and learns to share his beautiful work with THE WOOORLD AAWW. Oh yeah, and at some point he goes outside, the wind catches in his package thingy (which is a covered painting if it's not clear huur durr) and he gets dragged around town, blah blah, somehow lands on a skateboard, loses track of it, YEAH, that kinda stuff. 

HEY IT'S MARCH BREAK time to draw and play windwaker