Blog is back

I've been busy for the past couple of months. New job, new city, new house etc. So i haven't had any time at all to continue doing my animation or draw. Its been well busy. I have however managed to find time to doodle at work in the few short spaces of free time i get. These arent the best drawings ever, but i didnt want my blog to become inactive. So here are more work doodles.

A bit of Animation using flash.

Keyframes

My animation involving birds is coming along nicely. I forgot how much of a joy animation was. Cant believe some people think drawing very similar images over and over again for days on end is monotonous. HOHO!

It's been months since i last animated and when i did i had the aid of line testers and many people for critique. I don't have either of these things any more so i have to rely on my own judgement.

I've had to go back and learn what ex sheets are and how they work. I dont think i did many ex sheets while i was at uni. Probably the reason to why some of my animation was a bit stinky. The ex sheet makes the animation process a lot more mathematical and less spontaneous but it helps the animation look a lot better. (well so i've been told)

Below are keyframes from the first scene. At the minute i'm still just testing things out so the drawings are a little messy.

For whatever reason my images have been posted in reverse order.

New Jerry

Here's another study of jerry i did before work yesterday. I think i'm starting to become a lot more observant with my drawings. What you think.

New Post

I haven't posted in a few days. I'm currently trying to work out some new projects for myself and find ways of doing them quicker and cheaper. So far i've storyboarded out 2 ideas 1 of which will soon be pulled into an animatic. In the meantime though you can check out this picture of a bird i did.

Old stuff from a year ago

Here is some old stuff i found the other day.

I'm moving forward with confidence on my personal projects. To make it cheap and easier its probably going to be animated through flash. I haven't used flash in a long time. I drew this bird up in about a minute. The lines in flash can be quite problematic but i'm sure i can work around them.

I managed to get a storyboard done today. Going to try and upload it into an animatic in the next couple of days and send it off to some pals for critique.

SQUAWK!