Last day of school

Animation, Digital Tools
Forgot to post my head turn. Put it off too much lol, relatively boring assignment. Sir Pelinore from The Sword in the Stone


Final assignment, flour sack! Mine is kind of goopy and hyper; but I was surprised it turned out better than I expected it to, considering I animated most of it ( 120 out of 160 frames) straight ahead and without pencil-testing. How lazy can I get? lol. It took around the usual 10 hours, but with one hour devoted just to shooting and the exposure sheet. Detest those things fsdfgh


Digitools, cut-out character jump. Making and setting up the character in toonboom was a pain, but the actual animating was kinda fun. Dorky as it is;


Character Design
Used another character (anthropomorphised) of mine for this assignment... /hit
 prof said to have at least one eye showing.



Layout
Did even worse on portfolio this time (re: I had nothing) but I had a few doodly scenes I did to get some practice with the whole graticule and field guide stuff. Ahahahaaa welp




What is effort
Too lazy to put up life drawing assignments and stuff so I guess that's it for this term!

3 more weeks!!

All of these assignments are so last-minute, it's embarrassing LOL
Just gonna toss up a few...

Digital Tools
Multiplane walk cycle. I handed it in a whole week late!! But the professor still marked it. I'm grateful.


Animation
Chose a fox. Had trouble making it trot, so it just walks slowly.
Adjusted the legs multiple times... I thought it was interesting what little differences do.


Foxes keep their backs relatively straight and don't wag their tails much (though I made everything too straight). I goofed on a lot but ran out of time to fix before deadline lol 8)


Character Design
bad lines, wasn't thinking in the animation mindset oops


Painting
how do paint...
Ficto-planet




Measured and cut the wrong paper size. It killed my thumbnails, but I didn't want to bother again.



Novel Interior
I was trying to do a fireplace scene.



oh, what's that? Must be the sound of an all-nighter--

casually... hides face in shame.................h-hahahahaha
I never learn my lesson oh my goodness but anyway, just shows that I desperately need to practice my perspectives and buildings and stuff... And time management. Yeah 8)

Tidbits from second semester

Was just organizing my files, so I figured I should post some!

Animation
Pink panther, 12 frame. Did the 8 inbetweens.


Original character walk, 16 (or 18?) frame cycle. I made a cricket waiter!



Had to change his arms to all be forward since I was running out of time. His face is too flat and doesn't rotate with the rest of the body, and the tailcoat & antennae both don't move in beat with his steps; it was too confusing for me to try and imagine so I just animated them separately. A lot of mistakes as usual, but since I am no perfectionist, I still somewhat enjoyed maso'ing over this assignment.

I still need help with s&c curve in a long path; I think I'm okay with understanding it from a fixed point (bookflip) but I really struggle with it otherwise.

Digital Tools
Learning flash. Drew Twitch again ... just because.



Character Design
Character in sequence. Probably should've had more anticipation for a better effect?


Also baby/elderly caricatures of a classmate, in practice for next assignment!
I really enjoy Enzo's in-class exercises.


Layout 


This is pretty much all I ever get done in my favourite class.......

Scale vs. Proportion. Couldn't manage my desired angle in the end, so I settled for something flatter.


I also had a grand time confusing myself about the positioning of the field guides on the graticule. I'll have to figure that out soon.


Painting
Still lifes, practicing metal, transparency and fabric

You see that glass? Those impossibly warped ellipses and goopy fabric rolls?
That's me painting through the night


Master copy from the animationbackgrounds blogspot
Original:


Copies:


Putting the original and my copy on the same screen makes me realize just how dull and washed out my colours are. Not to mention the ellipses again. Arrghh! ELLIPSES!!

We usually get 2-3 whole weeks or so to work on each homework assignment, but it always seems to disappear so quickly lol. Have to work on that time management.