Saturday, 27 April 2013

Animation 2D walk cycle

So this is another 2D exercise we had to do. I pretty much enjoy this exercise. At first I had loads of trouble trying to get the movement right but as the lecturers said, reference always help.
The distract walk
The reference I use here was just a normal walk. Once I am happy with the normal wall movement , I then added a few more and tweak them a bit. The bending of the knees, the movement of the arm. Coudl say that this would be someone who's distracted by  a scene from the side or the basic" oh look! a bird" distraction.

The flirty walk
It took some time to explain to my flat mate to do a reference for this one. I had to play around with the movement on my own since the reference vid was just my model doing a simple cat walk. What I focus on was the movement of the shoulders, hips and the toe pointing. Was quite happy with the end results and I added a blow kiss motion as well as a " hey there" wave. :D 

The happy walk

Aagain , I use the same reference vid from the ditract walk and added extra moment. the first thing that came in mind was a skip which I did ended up adding to the animation. I quite like the skip, thought the timing of it was a bit slow. That something I'll have to work on as I progress. So far I quite like working on movement as a lose sketch. It easy to exaggerated movements that way.

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Background practice and personal designs

So here is another quick scribble of the forest. Not sure if I'm quite happy with the style just yet, I like the mysterious Autumn mood it gives and I may keep the colour reference for further practice. I'm still having trouble the the leaves on the trees. My previous practice had a better image of the leave so I might try and blend the two styles together.



Personal designs

This is Aby ,the shapeshifter
I was in the mood for pretty disturbing and grotesque character. I love playing around with her face. 
Aby doesnt really smile but the lining of her mouth makes it like she's always smiling. she's quite timid thought that doesnt stop her from being creepy in her own way.


Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Practice 02

So I've been busy with the waltz with Bashir style for the group animation film. I took some of the painting style from the film and use it with my background practice 
The end result was probably mixture of it and my own style. Experimenting with more colours, shading and textures. Though I'm still having trouble with the depth of the picture. I try using darker colours but I haven't tried to lighter colours for the fade into distance effects.