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Colored Wata'

Day 30 - Check Up Time

Animation "Pencil" Test from Noel on Vimeo.

(25) “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? (27) Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? (34) Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-34

Worry = No Trust

On animation: Above is a pencil test of the first three shots for my animated short film. The sound was not included to not give away everything too soon.

What I have learned so far:

(1) Sometimes less movement is more! The eye needs a little time to read a pose, so it is okay to hold parts of a character in place for a few frames without making the shot look cheap.

(2) Animating on Two's (Double exposure of a drawing) is kinda' intimidating for some reason. It is a constant battle in my mind trying to figure out when to add more frames or let a movement continue on two's.

(3)After seeing the shots in sequence, I now know that they need to connect better, probably by making the poses more similar after each cut.

(4) I'm loving the multiplane effect in shot one. It is subtle. Can you spot it?

Animation Mentor In the Rough 3

When creating a new shot, I did lots of preparation including: thumbnail drawings, video reference; sometimes I would select the most important poses from the reference and rotoscope them to help learn body mechanics and acting.

Animation Mentor In the Rough-2

When creating a new shot, I did lots of preparation including: thumbnail drawings, video reference; sometimes I would select the most important poses from the reference and rotoscope them to help learn body mechanics.

Animation Mentor in the rough

When creating a new shot, I did lots of preparation including: thumbnail drawings, video reference; sometimes I would select the most important poses from the reference and rotoscope them to help learn body mechanics.

Word: Shilly-Shally

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"Operator! Patch me through to the Chief of Police. We have our Shilly-Shallying Bandit!"

Word of the Day

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A while ago I decided to practice my drawing and storytelling skills by picking a random word from the dictionary and creating a scenario around it. Here you can see a few of them along with the word chosen.

Taking Notes

Sometimes during certain business classes I found myself doodling faces based on
classmates (girl with the slicked back hair and baggy eyes; Spartan beard man)

or inspired by a movie or tv show,

expressing my emotion (find the human with flesh melting off during a Microsoft Excel class),
or sometimes just to explore shapes.

Sketch Along With Me!

Sketching is fun, but random. I don't know what to do with them. You'll notice several common elements in my drawings. 1) Mickey Mouse: He is my favorite 2) Faces: People are interesting to draw, especially faces and expressions. 3) They are incomplete. They also have a nice, loose quality to them that can be more appealing than some of my polished drawings. Drawing with pen forces me to make quick but thoughtful choices, which strangely feels more liberating and creative when in the process.

Note: I use to draw Pocahontas a lot when it was being released to theaters, so I wanted to see if I could still draw her . . . result = not great.

A pseudo Tinkerbell appears b/c I drew what I knew from memory . . . Result = not great. But it was fun. You'll also notice the word "franchise above her, hmm...

Mickey with the dollar ($) signs in his eyes appear b/c I'm preparing a resume for a finance position at his domain. result = N/A

Therapeutic drawing

I work to pay for school. At work, customers can be . . . not nice. I'm the type of person that likes "feel good" movies. Not a good combination. I haven't drawn for fun in a while ( and it shows, but w/e).