I returned to my deer animation today, changing quite a lot of the ending and adding more breakdowns and inbetweens. I'm planning to clean it up in Photoshop, something like the deer shown below: quite loose and free, hopefully keeping some of the rough nature of the...
This idea I've had for a while, but today I had the chance to get all the keys and some of the breakdowns drawn. Lots of issues here still, so I look forward to working on it more.
Character (Morpheus) from here: http://www.joshburton.com/projects/morpheus.aspChair prop provided by AardmanAll sound effects from http://www.freesfx.co.uk This is a short animation I created while a Trainee Animator at Aardman. I wanted to push my animation and go...
Previous posts: Posing and Breakdowns. This is actually the hardest stage to describe, I think; there are so many small things that I do it's hard to summarise them. But I'll give it a shot! I normally don't use the graph editor all that much before the polishing pass...
Find parts I and III here: Posing and Polishing. What with Christmas, applying for jobs, and so on, it's taken me longer than I hoped to do some more work with my horse animation. Today I've had the chance to do so! To find my first post about this animation, click...
Find Parts II and III here: Breakdowns and Polishing. One thing I'm determined to do is to keep animating in 2D and 3D. There are lots of free 3D rigs available online, so I downloaded Tomasz Jurczyk and Carlos Contreras' horse rig from here. I want to add variety...
I have an idea for a short 2D animation, drawn and painted in my rough sketchy style. I drew this test one morning last week - it was great to sit down at an animation desk and draw. As I don't have an easy way to linetest traditional animation at home, I just went...
I've now finished the Aardman / NFTS Character Animation course ... twelve weeks over already! You can find my updated showreel (with lots of animation from the course) here and my new portfolio here. [NOTE: these pages no longer exist.] And now for something a little...
I've wanted to post a little about how I'm animating in Maya, but when I began to look at what I'd done I realised that there was more I wanted to say. So I'm beginning here, and we'll see how it goes! Referencing This is, by far, the most important thing I've learnt...