Character Design today was fantastic. The best way to create a dynamic drawing is to create a story about your character. I created Zaana in Space – intrepid space explorer battling aliens, waiting to go on missions and finally standing triumphantly in the face of danger. Improv classes have greatly improved my drawing skills. In…
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Tea Time Animatic Version 2
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Hey everybody here is version 2 of my pitch for the Animation Club’s fall interstitial. Now with better, crisper artwork. Enjoy.
Figurative Concepts Friday
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Getting better at drawing the head and using the proper cast and form shadows. Not bad considering I had 30 minutes of sleep the night before. Here is the full head drawing: Here is the close up: And here is Serafina, the model. She’s one of my favorite models and a very cool person:
Storyboard Animatics I & II: The Legend of Magdalene
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And here is the final result of the previous posts storyboards – the animatics for “The Legend of Magdalene.” I used a combination of one and two shots and rearranged the order to get a different feel for the story. The Legend of Magdalene Animatic I The Legend of Magdalene Animatic II
The Legend of Magdalene Storyboards
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Here is the storyboard project redux – this time Bob had us create two sets, one shots and two shots.I enjoyed the project but I see now exactly why there is a mix of ones and twos in a film. Makes it a lot easier to come up with a wide variety of camera angles. …
Heads and Hands Day 7
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For our Figurative Concepts homework I drew 24 heads based on famous paintings and Greek and Roman Sculptures. I seriously enjoyed this assignment. All of the heads were drawn in 15 – 20 minutes. More hands in the next few days.
Blade Runner Storyboards
Today we presented our storyboards for this week’s assignment. Each group was given a clip from a movie and each person in the group had to board out a scene. Our teacher gave our group “Blade Runner” and I storyboarded the scene where Rick (Harrison Ford) is trying to escape from Roy (Rutger Hauer). I…
Heads and Hands Day 2
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Went to the Heads and Hands workshop at the Federal Building today. When I become a filmmaker I am hiring the person who found the buildings for our school as my location scout. Our campus is super spread out in the craziest of places and the buildings they find are rather nice. Hands are 5…
The Human Muscular System
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Here is the type of homework you get in a figurative concepts class. I will work on my line quality so that the viewer can tell which muscles are in the front and which muscles are in the back.
Figurative Concepts Friday
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Today we studied hands and feet. Our teacher, Nicholas, was quite ill and had to leave, so George the substitute filled in for the last half of class. He did a great job, and gave us a twenty page hand out on how to better draw hands and feet. Now I am inspired to practice…