Final(ly)

To be honest, I can't really believe I'm saying this... But I started animating...

This never happens.

So, on (probably) my final post of the year, I can show you some key frames. They're really rough, and I'll need to go in and add some more keys for clarity/fix some volume control, but to be honest I don't feel it's too bad for a first pass. I don't know... I'm too close to it to tell now:

Normally, I'd wait until it was further on than this, but unfortunately I've come to the end of my free trial of AfterEffects which was my only source of easy line-testing...

As a bonus here's a wee doodle I did then coloured. It's me in a van with an easily distracted driver...

Happy New Year y'all - see you on the other side...

I Survived Christmas

A bold statement, but a true one. I made it through, managing to avoid the threatening food coma. Just about. And to celebrate today, I decided I felt like getting back into a wee bit o' animation. Using a life drawing pose as inspiration:

I quickly thought up an action, jotted down some key poses and drew this character over the top. Nice and complicated to suit my over-ambitious nature.

Now it's just to start the animation. I'm hoping that by posting this up here, it will stop me from leaving it by the wayside. I'll post y'all the keys once I've got them jotted down. I'd maybe ask for feedback... If there were anyone watching...

*tumbleweed*

To Grinch Or Not To Grinch?

Well... The world didn't end... So I now have no excuse not to blog. My goal was to post something before Christmas, so here we are. My other goal was for it not to be coursework just yet, as the feels like a cop-out, so coursework, this is not.

In my feedback for this semester, I was told I'm not making enough use of my life drawing. Therefore, I'm using it to create small illustrations which is proving to be rather fun. Unfortunately, they're not quite finished yet, but I feel I need to blog them now, otherwise I'll never blog again. You see? I even put them as GIFS so you can see the progression/I'd never done one before.

So here you go. A slightly underwhelming present from a distant relative if you will.

I'm going to come back and get these backgrounds done, but I've got a turkey to demolish first.

End Of The World Resolution

Since it's approaching the end of the world, I feel it's now about time to get round to all those things I've said I would. So, I realise that I should now get about to being more professional, and getting my work out there. Otherwise my only job prospects will be drawing pictures for estranged family members.

Therefore, the blog is coming back into action. I've had a winter clean, and gutted it out so I can start afresh. So, expect to see some sketchbook/work in progress work as I intend to use this to document all those little things that don't really count as professionally finished outcomes, but I would like the world to see, as opposed to sitting in a dusty sketchbook/hard-drive. It should also inspire me to work more.

And work I shall...