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.
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Rude Awakening
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...
Animating a Horse III
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...
Animating a Horse II
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...
Animating a Horse
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...
Short Animation Idea
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...
Update
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...
Animation Referencing
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...
Walk and Run Assignments
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...