Sketching for Animation

Here are some quick and dirty sketches geared towards the short animation I am currently working on.  Story ideas and a lip sync study on the first page, a breakdown of  a lip sync and eye expression on the second page, and a motion study n the third page.  I'm making a "pseudo model" of the background in 3DS Max.

Sketching for Branding

This is a second try at branding after the first set failed.  This clearly shows more of my personality than plain texture.  This stuff is harder than it looks.

Lofty Looters Pre-Revision Animatic

Lofty Looters Pre-Revision Animatic

This is the animatic put together using the backgrounds I posted before.  It was a lot more fun than the first animatic of this term, and probably a lot more fun to watch.  I'm doing thumbnails for a second part to this same animatic, so just wait and see…….

The Sum of my INKtober

As far as keeping up with doing INKtober drawings… I've done them every day so far.  This is one of the ones I'm most impressed with.  It's been a fun challenge, something I'd like to keep doing in my free time.
Say hello to my impression of Nico Marlet's concept art style!  The How to Train Your Dragon movies are incredible, right at the top of my favourite movies list (with some others).

"Lofty Looters" Background Sketches

As you can see, I like to draw outside of the lines.  Can't leave any leak space, after all.  Drawing backgrounds and making animatics is becomes more fun as I get better at them.  These backgrounds are for an animatic pre-named "Lofty Looters", and shows pirates escaping from the onslaught of angry tribesmen with treasure and  a surprising discovery.  I had to edit my original story, otherwise I might have had a feature-length amount of story sketches.

The first background is one I will be using to animate a heavy lift (of a pirate lifting treasure into a boat), and a push/pull animation (where the pirate pushed the dinghy out to sea).  I get to do a lot of fun research, and have discovered the names to some ship rigging and sails.  My favourite rig style is the brigantine!

Unbelievable Animatic

This is an animatic I made as my first project of my last year of college: http://youtu.be/MafPQTJb38I. I had great fun putting it together, all while trying to keep from snickering too much.

Ultimate YES!

I made the ultimate find today.  It's hard to see, but on those two rocks are imprints of fly wings- Fossils!  It was just after watching a parade in the Tri-county area, and there was still an hour to kill, so we went to a rock beach.  I happen to see this sign with trails marked, and one of the locations happened to read "Fossils".  Anyone who knows me would guess right away what I did.  For those of you who don't; I made a beeline to that location on that map.  I wasn't disappointed!