I'm giving a brief presentation tomorrow on this animation idea of mine, so I've been working on the storyboard and colour script. Here are a couple of glimpses at it!
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New Portfolio and Showreel
I thought it was time for an update of my portfolio and showreel! Here's a peek: click on the image to view the full portfolio. [NOTE: this portfolio link no longer exists.]My latest animation showreel, featuring Maya and paper animation:Music: "Dial Up" by Kris...
Deer
I cleaned up and inbetweened the deer over the last couple of weeks. At first the movement appeared very even, so I removed some of the inbetweens and rejigged some of the remaining drawings to get back to the feeling I wanted. Once I was happy, I coloured it, added a...
Deer Background and Breakdowns
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...
Deer Line Test
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.
Bee
The freelance project I'm working on is very serious, with no colour ... so I wanted to draw something completely different today! I've had an idea for a short, or perhaps a series of shorts, in Flash. I'd like to keep the characters really simple, like the birds in...
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...