Gesture collection

A little collection of sketches from morning gesture-drawings.

I could definitely feel it had been a while, felt all rusty in the far croquis-corners of my brain...

Dance Animation

Very rough - too rough, actually; but I went loose this time becuase of experimentation. Clean-up failed spectacularly because of this. So here's the rough animation, just the motion, no character... I still like this, but I should've picked a character I could actually sketch freely...

Looks like croquis come-to-life because of that brush-choice.

Croquis done in Light Blue Prismacolour - yes, the un-scannable. Which was a bad choice of course, because I couldn't use my OWN scanner to scan these pages. Had to use the fancy, powerful ones at school which actually CAN pick up that shade of blue.

Didn't dare think at the time, I was finally on a roll, making lines that I liked and I love the rough blue look, so I regret nothing! WIll probably use coloured-sketch pencils more often for these things...

 Small sketching seesion with friends out in Viborg during the first peek of lovely weather we've seen this year so far...

And then I had to get ice cream... No other option.

Dialogue Animation

Characters chosen are Gerald McBoingBoing and 'the cat who hated people' (no name given).

I chose this sound clip because it had a lot of energy to work with. This taught me a great deal about how to move a character in a fast way, using smears and rapid settling, over-shoots etc.
Lip-syncing was surprisingly easy; hadn't expected that.

The backstory for this scene is that Gerald has some anger issues - he doesn't take well to being told what he can or can't do... He's a child, so he throws a fit.

I really enjoyed having Mike Polvani as teacher. Swell guy, I'll miss him.

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Also, here are some sketches of the day...

croquis 2011 - Febuary 1st

Ah, it's been a while since i sat down and watched a nude person for an hour with the alibi that it's research and extra-curricular...
It's nice to be back in the croquis game, so here's a compilation of my first (quite belated) croquis sketches of 2011.

hands practice + lecture thumbnails

As I mentioned in an earlier post I'm working on a 5 sec scene with myself as a kid. I've had a lot of trouble with a balancing part, which was due to some bad and unnatural key-poses. Today during lecture I finally got my act together and re-did the middle part of the scene here. So these are alternative keys that I traced onto separate frames and linetested into the scene - and eurika, now the scene is much more fluid! I've realized that I like this thumbnailing aspect of the trade. Frames 4-5 definately need a breakdown.

Got inspired by a blog-post by Toby Shelton. I love hands, they're a great secondary acting device... So I tried out some angles.

Thumbnails from Disney's "The Rescuers". We're currently very focused on how Milt Kahl animates. This sort of doing croquis from frame-surfing is very fun and personally I get a great overview of how the keys play out. I'm definately going to make a habit of this whenever I get in-over-my-head or confused with a scene just like in the 'kid-scene' mentioned above.

Oh, and here's my "unrelated sketch of the day"...

Some of my stuff from "The Drawing Academy"

Last long-study (here a self-portrait) I did at The Drawing Academy.

 I always found the muscles of the back quite tricky, so this angle was a challenge, but good practice.

 One of the earlier long-studies...

 Aaaaaand CROQUIS TIME!

 Portrait of the model. I love this study; I was sitting up close and got this dramatic angle because the model was elevated.