Animation Mentor-Observation Prep

Pick a facial expression or emotion and re-create 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.