For the third year running I've taught animation workshops at a creative arts holiday (ages 12-18) over the summer. The last two years I've focused on morphing workshops, but I decided to try something a little different this time. I introduced the idea of emotions in...
I spent some time today drawing quick sketches using the Bodies in Motion site. The Muybridge images are especially good for quick studies, and after exploring a variety of sequences I settled on this one.
Katrina modelled at this special 'animation' life drawing session with short poses. Normally there are poses from 2 minutes up, but we had several 1 minute poses and (after I begged) some 30 second ones too. We began with a sequence of 1 minute poses.There were...
I've been busy with work and a family wedding, so it's taken me a while to post anything new! Here's a group of studies from one of Muybridge's wonderful sequences.
I led more high school-age animation workshops this year, expanding on the morphing workshop from last year. This time everyone who took part was in complete control of their own piece of animation between their character and the next person's. Whether the character...
Recently I've been working on an storyboard about a pigeon who finds the mother of all crumbs, but discovers eating it isn't all that simple. Here's the result! Based on a true story ...Sound effects copyright BBC
Recently I animated a couple of elements for the new Skoog advert, which you can watch below.I animated the girl's moustache, plus several 'flourishes' throughout the video. I've added a couple of examples as gifs below.
Recently I taught some animation workshops for groups of mainly high school aged children and youth. This is the first time I've taught animation in any depth, though I ran one workshop on pixelation a few years ago. My main goal was to give a basic framework for...
If you haven’t seen my previous storyboards from the Animation Base Camp, you may want to start here or here. The story revolves around odd-couple animals at a therapist’s office. The scene below, featuring a bee, was worked on by several different people throughout...