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 improv you create an idea for a character and your character then interacts with other characters in the same way. When I approached my drawings today, I thought – “What is Zaana doing? Is she fighting for her life? Upset that she wasn’t selected to go on a mission? About to blast off into hyperspace?” Giving her motivation plus “pushing” the drawing (exaggerating what the model is actually doing) makes for interesting drawings.
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Tea Time Animatic Version 2
academy of art, Academy of Art University, Animatic, Animation, Animation Club, StoryboardsHey everybody here is version 2 of my pitch for the Animation Club’s fall interstitial. Now with better, crisper artwork. Enjoy.
Figurative Concepts Friday
academy of art, Animator's Journal, Figurative Concepts, Figure Drawing, Life DrawingStoryboard Animatics I & II: The Legend of Magdalene
academy of art, Animatic, Animator's Journal, StoryboardsAnd 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
academy of art, Animator's Journal, StoryboardsHere 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.
One Shot Thumbnails
One Shot Storyboards
Two Shot Thumbnails
Two Short Storyboards
Heads and Hands Day 7
academy of art, Animator's Journal, Figurative Concepts, Heads and HandsBlade Runner Storyboards
academy of art, StoryboardsToday 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 thoroughly enjoyed this assignment. Unlike my last assignment, this one conveys a great deal of depth and perspective. The cinematography for this film is fantastic, and showed me how a film can be composed to create a sense of mood. I am looking forward to using the techniques I learned on this project for my thesis. Here are my thumbnails:
And here are the final boards:
Heads and Hands Day 2
academy of art, Animator's Journal, Heads and Hands, Life DrawingWent 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 minutes, complete faces are 20 minutes, incomplete faces are 10 minutes.
The Human Muscular System
academy of art, Animator's Journal, Figurative ConceptsFigurative Concepts Friday
academy of art, Animator's Journal, Figurative Concepts, Figure Drawing, Life DrawingToday 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 more to get better. If you can draw hands and feet, you can definitely draw.