Dec/091
Daily… Not an alligator
We saw the Princess Frog today, I was quite anamored with the alligator. I had planned on drawing one for today’s image, but while sketching, this guy came to be and I wanted to take him little further than the pencil sketch.
Dec/090
Daily… Character sketch
Pandragon. Part dragon, part panda. Working out the character design for this interesting combination.
Dec/090
Daily… A grumpy critter
I wouldn’t want to come across this guy without some sort of protection!
Dec/090
Daily… Winter thumbnail
Starting to figure out what I want to do for the “winter wonderland” theme over at The Gnomon Workshop. I was thinking of something with my character Barrel decorating his version of a holiday tree (in this case a stick he found outside).
Dec/090
Daily… A floating city island
Started as random blobs of tone and then it started looking like a floating island. I went with it!
Dec/090
Time to breathe
I’m on vacation now, yay. I finally had time to back post a chunk of my daily images. There are still a few (I think from late november) I have to find, I’ll see where they ran off to.
Now that I have more time again, I’d like to start putting at least an hour into my dailies. I have some illustrations I’d like to work on, so I was thinking of using my daily images as a way to explore what I might want to do.
I also want to be animating at least a little each day. I want to start with some simple exercises to get warmed up, then start doing some longer pieces. I want to tackle a physical and action oriented piece as well as some more dialogue tests.
Dec/090
Daily… Some more sketches
I still keep doing my daily image in the last few minutes before going to bed. I’d like to get away from that!
Dec/090
Daily… A robot design
I’ve been doing lots of robot drawings recently, I’m not sure where that’s coming from!
Dec/090
Daily… Expressions of a robot
An expressions exercise with a robot character I was playing with in my character design sketchbook.
Dec/090
Daily… A bird
I like the idea of this one, but the silhouette on the bird doesn’t read as well as I had wanted it to. I’ll come back to this idea again.
Dec/090
The semester is almost up
This is finals week at school, my last day of classes is on Thursday. Today I had my last day of animal drawing class, I got out an hour and a half early, so now I’m at home getting ready to work on my animation.
First, a cup of coffee and some relaxing in bed, I feel so tired! I have a lot to get done still, but I feel okay with where things are going. My animation is the farthest along I’ve gotten on any animation project, although even there I see how much better I could have done. Just shows me where I can improve!
For this piece I need to finish the lip sync, smooth out some awkward movements, finalize the arm motions, finalize the ending and then polish, polish, polish!
This animation is for my Lip Sync Animation class; I find it funny that it’s only in the last week I’m tackling the lip sync side of things. When a character speaks, the actual lip movement is such a small part of the whole. I’ve been so much more focused on body language and expression changes.
Beyond my animation class which finishes up tomorrow at 12, I have both my Character Design and Clothed Figure classes on Thursday. For Clothed Figure, I have to choose 12 of my in class pieces and snazz them up a bit. For character design I have to get all my model sheets together in a portfolio, get together my sketchbook and mainly I need to finish my maquette of the Great White Giraffagator.
There shall be much posting of school projects in the next week!
