19/03/2010

078 - Camera Pan


It may not be exciting or funny, but I have never understood how camera movements work in flash, so this is my first ever attempt of trying to recreate a pan.

077 - Box


Very quick rough animation just for fun.

17/03/2010

076 - Dog Run


A break from the Kung Fu Panda WIP animations, here is a little doggie having a little jog.

075 - Kung Fu Panda WIP


Just an update from yesterday. Still lots of work left to do, but getting there slowly.

16/03/2010

074 - Po's Training Secret WIP


So yeah, had this idea ages ago, roughly animated it ages ago, so thought I would start cleaning it up. I stupidly didnt check how big the flash export movie was, it was tiny, so it looks abit rubbish, but I am too lazy to export it again. I'll just keep animating and updating it. The audio is from Tenacious D if you didnt know.
I am also going to add animation at the end of Po lifting up a bunch of roosters on a dumbell for gag purposes.

15/03/2010

073 - Jimmy Hopkins

Didnt know what to animate today, so just whipped this up instead. I have been playing Bully on the xbox 360 recently, so drew the main character Jimmy Hopkins. I didnt rate the game much to begin with, it felt like a chore playing it...but has gotten a lot better.

14/03/2010

072 - Preview


No animation today (yesterday), so instead a preview of something I am working on. This animation a day thing isn't working out too great, mainly because I am so rusty everything sucks.

13/03/2010

071 - Fighter


Just playing around with some rough animation for a cycle stance for a fighter in a 2D beat em up. needs a lot more work, but its rough.

12/03/2010

070 - Chris Sanders Style Challenge

Inked up a sketch that is supposed to be in the style of Lilo & Stitch creator Chris Sanders. I am happy with the drawing, just ain't happy with not really looking sanders-esque.

10/03/2010

069 - Hero Turn


Thought yesterday's animation needed something more...so I added a body. So today, rough animation, clean up and colours, think I am done with this one now.

09/03/2010

08/03/2010

067 - Hammer Time


Needs alot of work and its compressed nastily, but you get the gist of things. Rough animation.

07/03/2010

066 - Coin Flip Coloured


I tweaked and coloured the animation. I couldnt get it working enough the way I wanted it, and it kept getting over worked, so I am leaving it for now so I can move onto something new.

065 - Commission Preview

I tweaked yesterday's animation but forgot to publish the movie, and since then I have added some colour, so I'll post that version instead. In the meantime, a preview of a commission that includes wonder woman.

06/03/2010

064 - Coin Flip


Almost forgot to post yesterday's animation, but I am embarrassed to show this. I thought I would do something simple after seeing a pose in Eric Goldberg's 'Character Animation Crash Course' book, but I got so much to to adjust and work on.

The smoke is crap. I think I did too many drastically different keys, so I will scrap that and straight ahead something more simple and wafty. The coin isn't quite working, and I think the wrist needs some drag and follow through.

Any other suggestions or tips?

05/03/2010

063 - Angry Walk


Trying out another walk, putting some character into it. Saw a single drawing expressing character in a walk in Eric Goldberg's book and thought 'That would be fun to try animating'.
There was another version with an extra drawing during the passing positions, but I thought this one felt more angry with the quicker snap.

04/03/2010

062 - Walk Cycle


Forgot to post this yesterday. Finished off the walk by adding ears and a tail. Not sure if this looks too much and overworked, or just poorly animated. Anyway, thats this walk cycle done, no more adjustments!

03/03/2010

061 - Walk Clean Up


Finished the walk cycle from yesterday. I want to do more to it, add ears bouncing, maybe a tail too. I also want to shrink the size of this so that it isn't the size of the workspace. Any ideas apart from rescaling each frame? Would help a lot.

01/03/2010

060 - Walk WIP


This month I will try some animation everyday. Today I was practicing a walk cycle from Eric Goldberg's 'Character Animation Crash Course!' book, where I used his keyframes and inbetweened the rest on 1s.

I am currently cleaning this up, tweaking things etc, hopefully finish it tomorrow. Done in Flash.

059 - Zawadi

And so the Marvel Ladies A-Z ends with Zawadi, ally of the Black Panther. Had fun drawing this one, and pleased how it turned out. Really felt this month has improved my female drawings, so I hope you have all enjoyed seeing the progress.