This is one of the first sketches I did for the fire in "Dreid", my VFS classical animation. I took a picture of the sketch when I had to throw the sketchbook it was in away, and I only found the picture this weekend.This little bird was in the same sketchbook, but...
Today's quick doodle. I want to try and get away from relying on my sketch lines. I'm finding it difficult to translate them into finished, clean lines!
Animation by myself, character and prop provided by Aardman. I found Week Four's exercise challenging not only because I lost a day through illness but because the nature of the exercise meant lots of slow, steady animation (which I find hard enough to do in 2D) which...
Some cats from my sketchbook. Coloured in Photoshop.
Animation by myself, characters provided by Aardman. I'm now about to begin my fourth week on the Aardman course. This video's made of the assignments I completed over the last two weeks. The lunge is the first character animation I've done in Maya. I had lots of...
Kelpies feature in many Scottish myths, though similar creatures can be found in other cultures under different names. Unpleasant in nature, they trick their victims and then drown and eat them. I've been writing a story about a kelpie and when the challenge of...
I had fun painting with gouache last night! I bought three more tubes of paint as last time I only had yellow, red, and blue. Also I planned ahead a bit more, taking some designs from my sketchbook to paint instead of attempting to make them up on the spot.
At a life drawing class earlier in the week the model created a series of poses descending into extreme sadness.
It's the end of my first week on the Aardman / NFTS Certificate in Character Animation. I've been learning Maya (help!) and animating different weights of bouncing balls. As Lloyd Price says, "It all comes back to the bouncing ball!"