Getting into the really gritty bits of animating my final so I decided to take a break and do something fun and quick in photoshop. Just a basic walk-cycle for practice since Pollo’s anatomy is so wacky!
Also a little sketch practice with Prof. Alexander.
For one of my classes (on my other blog) we had to use our favorite live-action movie for some composition/gesture studies, which is District 9 for me! Well, I got a little carried away and decided afterwards to take a small break from mountains of school work to doodle a couple silly things.
In case you’re unaware, The Lego Movie is completely awesome! With such a great cast of characters, I took this opportunity to test out a few styles and techniques while getting all the Legos out of my system.
Spoiler alert: it’s been a week and I’m still drawing them.
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Just some dudes this time. Gestures, hands, feets and some boys I liked well enough to finish. Don’t smoke, kids!
Lately, I’ve been watching lots of my favorite older cartoons which has made me want to draw more cartoony-type stuff so… prepare yourselves for that storm.
I’m really enjoying my sketch class this semester, so I decided to clean up a couple of the gestures I like most. If anyone’s interested in the sketchy, sketchy poses, I have a blog for the class over here.
And now just a couple of ladies since I don’t think I draw ladies enough, with a special appearance by yours, truly. Some of these are observational, most are fresh outta my mind tank.
Lately I’ve mostly done character design practice, so here’s a few samples from my sketchbook.
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I was put in charge of finalizing half the storyboard for our 2-2:30 minute collaborative animation, so I spent a little time practicing expressions based on our 3D model. That’s right, I’m animating in 3D this time!
Also, I did some simple layout concepts for the scenes I’m currently working on.
Since I finally settled on a design I liked, I broke Pollo down to basic shapes and it’s so much easier to draw him consistently now! Which is good because I’m getting into the rough animation stage!
I also drew a more adult version of Arroz. I figure if I can draw him as an adult, I can then go back and add the pudge and big eyeballs to make a better looking puppy awww.
So there is another animation I’m working on, a collaborative video with my Special Topics Animation class. As of right now, I only have my concept art to post, but I’ve been put in charge of finalizing the second half of the storyboards of our 2 minute(?) long video. So that’ll be up soon!
Our main characters are a granny hunter and a bear. We’ve pretty much already established the bear, but we’re basing the granny off my concept here. It’s so awesome to see her as a 3D model!
And here’s some simple bear practice.
Still getting that animatic together! So far it looks like it will be around 2 minutes and the animatic is nearly done (finally!!). I did a quick mock-up of how the layout will look a majority of the time, in comparison to the characters.
So that’s fun but until I start fully animating I may as well practice drawing Pollo over and over and over again.
I’m still not completely certain on how detailed I want to make him, I’m thinking slightly more simplified than last week’s design, similar to the top one here BUT IT WILL PROBABLY CHANGE AGAIN.
Doodles n Poodles 