Character provided by Aardman, animation by myself. The last few weeks have taught me a lot. There have been a few difficult days when I've really doubted my ability: "I'll never be an animator!" Somehow those dark moments were followed by days where everything worked...
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...
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...
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!"
I've been working on this since late August, and I've finally got it to the I'm-almost-happy-with-this stage! I drew the rough in Flash (hence the general messiness; I don't like the brush tool very much) and I'm planning to clean it up in Photoshop. Comments and...
A bird who just wants to rest has trouble with a noisy neighbour. This short animation was made in Flash and Photoshop, then composited in After Effects. It was the final project of my Classical Animation course at Vancouver Film School.
Colour tests exploring how the light and colour will change throughout my film.
One character from one scene of my classical film. I'm currently cleaning up, which involves rough cleaning the very rough roughs, and then cleaning the rough cleans! There are a few inbetweens missing from the clean.
Attempt one. Drawn in Photoshop over storyboard panels.