Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Walks

 

 

 

Our last in-class stop motion assignment was to create a two-step walk. We had a few opportunities to practice, which is what is seen here. It's tricky stuff, but I did improve over a few attempts!

Sketch

Sketch - Christmas Caricature

 

 

Merry Christmas! I lost power for several days but it's back now just in time for me to upload a quick grinchy self-caricature.



Animation

Animation - Action Analysis

 

 

Finally, it's the end of the semester and my Action Analysis is complete. This project involved choosing an action (in my case, a 'jump and grab'), creating a character to perform that action, creating and painting the layout for that action, animating it, and cleaning it up fully in colour. It had to be two-toned colour (edge shadow) with a contact shadow on the ground. There had to be a pan in the shot, and I combined mine with a truck in. There also had to be a special effect (I chose snow). It was supposed to be 6-10 seconds long, but later we were allowed to go beyond that, so mine's a little over. This was a work-heavy but fun experience finally making a 'finished' animated peice.

Sketch

Sketch - Antoinette

 

 

Another quick pastel sketch of another character from our Third Year Film, Antoinette. Again, it's not quiiite what we ended up with, design-wise, but it's close.

Sketch

Sketch - Caricature

 

 

Just a quick doodle out of my sketchbook with a touch of Photoshop. Loosely me!



Storyboard

Storyboard - Ducks & Gators

 

 

Our only storyboard assignment this semester not related to the group film was to board out a sequence using a provided script, character designs, and environment from an old children's CG show. See my full boards after the break.

Life Drawing

Life Drawing - Creature Design

 

 

Our latest Life Drawing assignment was to take a pose we'd drawn, and turn it into some sort of creature, then precede that illustration with a comic-book-style backstory of how the figure transformed into that creature. Here's my take on it, with a golem.

Illustration

Mort - Illustration

 

 

A few weeks ago we began using NuPastel in Life Drawing, and I took a few minutes to sketch out this piece of Mort, the main character from our third-year film. It's not quite the final look we're going for in his design, but it's close.

 

 

 



Action Analysis

Action Analysis - Layout

 

Here's the layout I'm using for my Action Analysis. A nice exercise in tree texturing. Also, here's a sketch of my Action Analysis character inspired by Alex K. Check out her stuff!

 



Action Analysis

Action Analysis - Character Design

 

 

Following up on the Fun Pack, here's the final character design I went with for my Action Analysis.



Action Analysis

Action Analysis - Funpack

 

 

This semester's big animation assignment is the Action Analysis. Here's most of the Fun Pack I made for mine.

 

Life Drawing

Life Drawing - Royal Winter Fair

 

 

Another year means another trip to the Royal Winter Fair. See a compilation of my drawings (mostly quick gestures) after the break.

 

Design Concept

Mort - Design Concept

 

 

Quick background I made for a some style tests with a walk cycle. Unfortunately there's not much I can post from our group film yet because a) I don't want to spoil it and b) most of my work has been storyboarding (spoiler city).

Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Smash

 



 

Aaand here's the final smash animation with club.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Smash

 

 

This test was a practice for a later assignment, wherein the puppet wields a bat and smashes an object. In this practice, the presence of the bat was implied. I also did a short reaction test at the end.

Human Animation

Human Animation - Tilt

 

 

Here's a group stop motion experiment! It was a very non-specific assignment, we just had to do some form of stop motion by posing people. We took it a step further and posed the room, too. That's me in the rolling chair.

Character Design

Character Design - Lineup

 

 

A compiled lineup of some character sketches for our third year group film! Just rough sketches to generate ideas. Not quite the style we later landed on, but my design for the large woman was used as the base for her final design.

Life Drawing

Life Drawing - Year Three, Semester 1, Part 1

 

 

 

After the break, see a collection of some of my life drawings from the semester so far! Including a variety of gestures and longer studies, form studies, and experiments with different media. Even a few half-blind contours.

 

 

Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Jump

 

 

Once again, a small stop motion test. This time a jump.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Arm Wave Variant

 

 

This one started off as a variant of the arm wave, and then I just had a bit of fun at the end.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Double Arm Wave

 

 

Another quick test of a double arm wave, offset.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Arm Wave

 

 

Another short stop motion test, this time of an arm wave.

Heroes & Villains

Life Drawing - Heroes & Villains

 

 

A current assignment for Life Drawing is to take three drawings and work them up into a hero or villain character. I chose to make mine a pirate, musketeer, and wizard. See all three after the break.

 

Halloween Avatar

Halloween Avatar

 

 

Recently got a pen for the school Cintiqs and they are fantastic! Whipped this up pretty quickly during a lecture last week for my Halloween avatar.



Sketch

Sketch - Squid

 

 

Part of our tuition this year went towards Cintiq pens, so I've gotten to use one for the first time ever, and I am in love. Did this preschool doodle pretty freakin' quickly during a class this week just to get the feel of the tablet. I think the pufferfish ended up as an accidental caricature of my teacher in that class.



Urban Ant

Urban Ant

 

 

This is Urban Ant! The idea came to me in the middle of class not long ago, so I made this in my spare time over two and half weeks. It's not animation heavy, I was more going for an atmosphere. I'm generally pleased with how it turned out.

Urban Ant

Urban Ant - Teaser

 

 

He's the title card for a 97-second short I've been working on for the last two and a half weeks. It's not much but I like how it turned out. I'll be posting it this weekend!

Character Design

Character Design - Mort

 



 

We've officially started work on our Third Year Film! Here's a couple of character design possibilities I cam up with for our main character, Mort.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Hand Tests

 

 

Just some more handimation tests. Tried to get some smooth and believe movements that aren't usual for hands.



Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Toroise & Hare

 

 

More stop motion. This wasn't an assigned exercise, just something I did during class.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Blocks

 

 

Here's the other animation I did during last week's Stop Motion class. This one took about an hour, and it was a lot of fun trying to apply 2D animation concepts to 3D objects.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion - Hand

 

 

 

We had our first stop motion class this week. Basically just fooling around to familiarize ourselves with the program and equipment. Here's a quick thing I tried out with my hand.

Candy Crush

Candy Crush - Illustration

 

 

Here's another update to make up for lack of recent activity. I wanted something to doodle digitally, and found inspiration in my procrastination!

Moving!

Moving! Illustration

 

 

I haven't been able to do much art lately, as I've spent the last week moving into my new apartment in Oakville! This is basically what I look like all the time now. Anyway, a new school year has begun and I'm ready to go!

 

Incidentally, do you have Twitter? I have Twitter. Just sayin'.



Excalibur

Excalibur - Wallpaper

 

 

I've been busy the last few days! Finishing work and travelling to see relatives and going to the CNE and getting ready to move. Working on Excalibur has gone on the backburner for a bit. But as of next week I'll start having school assignments to post again. For now, here's an asset I made for Excalibur, a medieval-themed wallpaper.



Excalibur

Excalibur - Storyboard/Final Shot Comparison

 

 

Here's another storyboard comparison from a completed shot of Excalibur.



Sketch

Work Sketch - Trees

 

 

This is my last week at work! After a week back home, I'll be moving out to Oakville for my last two years of Animation. Here are some final tree sketches from work.

Beat Board

Excalibur - Beat Board

 

 

Here's another unused beat board from Excalibur.



Storyboard

Excalibur - Storyboard/Final Shot Comparison

 

 

 

Here's another frame from a finished scene of Excalibur, as well as the original storyboard image. Examination of physical logistics made me slightly alter the action, so that's why the pose is a bit different. But I like how this shot turned out overall and thought I'd share it.

 



Life Drawing

Life Drawing - Animal Gestures

 

 

On Monday  I went to the zoo with some friends and managed to get in a few pages of gestures. It was incredibly packed for the long weekend, but I think the frantic pace I was forced into actually helped me loosen up a lot for these. See the full set after the break.

 

Sketch

Work Sketch

 

 

Some more trees at work.



Beat Board

Excalibur - Beat Board

 

 

More process work, this time a rough beat board that got thrown out along the way.

Excalibur

Excalibur - Screenshot

 

 

A couple of weeks ago I posted this panel from the Excalibur storyboard. Well, here's a teaser of how that title card currently looks in animation.

 



Concept Sketches

Excalibur - Concept Sketches

 

 

A few sketches today, of King Arthur (an eliminated character, an aged Kid Arthur), and Wellesley the dragon.



Sketch

Sketch - Flowers

 

 

Some more work sketches, of some flowers in our garden centre.



Concept Sketches

Excalibur - Concept Sketches

 

 

Some more concept sketches, this time for a character, Cale, who has since been eliminated from the short.



Sketch

Sketch - Tree

 

 

Just another quick nature sketch from work today.



Concept Sketches

Excalibur - Concept Sketches

 

 

 

Some more early sketches, this time of Kid Arthur. I was pretty set on his basic look, so I just played around a lot with facial elements.



Ambigram

Animated Graphic - Palindrome

 

 

 

Hey, did you know that 'Cody Forkes' is a palindrome (a word that's read the same backwards as forwards)? No? Well, here's the proof.

 

 (Apparently this is called an Ambigram, whatever)
 

Just a fun project I put together the other night to celebrate today, the one year anniversary of my art blog.