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...
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...