Sat July 26, 2008

Well, neither of my parents were very impressed with any of the animation I've been doing so I decided to put up some of the Portraits I've drawn this month. Average of 40 minutes a drawing.

Enjoy :)

Monday 7, 7 2008

I thought I'd share one of the Portraits I drew last week. Hopefully you enjoy it.

Animation. I worked a little on the weekend, but i had Over Time on Saturday and tonight so I didn't get as much doe as I like. However I took tomorrow evening off so I should be able ot get some real progress then, Stay Tuned!

June 23, 2008

As per regular, it's been awhile.
2 hours tonight.



I had, I thought, all my keys done (you can still see my two side characters pop'n to theirs). So I changed my main to smooth animation curves and began adding frames to make the motion correct (obviously not there yet).
1 probelm I ran into is that the last couple of frames are too dull
I think what it needs is the characters "UP" movement from his step to happen on the word "Hard". Currently the Up movement has not been placed. Other then that it's just a whole bunch of work. I know what I need to do.

June 11, 2008

wow it's been awhile.
Moving on

Re Framing Monday May 12

Well I worked a little on the weekend with this and a buddy of mine came over and suggested a couple of things. The BiggEST suggestion was to reframe my shot. He actually has a much better eye for interesting Camera angles then me (this being the 3rd project he's done this to me... I may have him start reading my story boards). With the different Camera angle I have more face time on my speaking character and he doesn't have to do his really quick spin (which had been giving me trouble)

C&C is always welcome

Monday May 5 2008

Tonight it looks like I did nothing.
Basically I tried several times to animate the main character and no matter how I timed out his movements It was impossible to get him to look right.

I just now, right now, realized that perhaps it's a problem with my whole shot plan and not just my action (which I really wanted to keep).
I think I've set it up to be an easy fix tomorrow. I'm going to make "mr fox" enter from the Right instead of the left. This way it covers the actions my other characters are doing (which helps keep them in the background) and it also allows me to keep all my main actions without having to worry about completing a 'casual 360' in 13 seconds. Now it's only going to be a 180 which I think will work perfectly.

Audio 02 Sun, May 4

I took a break from my weekly animation because I was learning a new software (motion builder) I'll be running through a few more tutorials this week but I wanted to start on this Batman clip again.



I've blocked in the other two characters now and my next step (Monday night) will be to animate the main character properly.