Happy Early Halloween.

Frankie!

Animal Sketches

These are all from photos I took at the zoo. I sketch at the Zoo too sometimes but my wife was getting sick of waiting for me to draw every animal we passed, I'll go on my own this week.

these were all taken at Marwell Zoo, probably the best place for Zoo sketching, really dead quiet on a weekday and looads on animals.

2D animation

This was from Eric Goldbergs book, I used his keys and breakdowns but tried to do my own inbetweens.

Class 3 Final shot

Heres my last shot from class 3

You need quicktime to view.

odosketch

I just found a link to THIS SITE where you can just draw stuff in this limited but cool style and it plays them back. I just did the same as the last picture I posted because it was in my head.

Anotherpodpic

Did this in 'Brushes' last night and a bit more this morning. I thought it was about time I tried a whole person instead of just a head. It looks a bit flat but I did it all with no reference, so the anatomy is kind of faked too, I'm going to do some paintings from reference next.

Midway animation ugliness

This is what animation looks like half way through. CG animation anyway, 2D animation starts cool then just keeps getting better and better, CG starts nice and snappy, then you turn on the computer interpolation, then it explodes into a chaotic and depressing mess of pops and jerks and muddy timing, then you have to fight your way back to perfection. It's a traumatic experience! I'm getting better though, this time it's not too bad, I put alot of keys to brace the dodgy areas and to keep the timing. Well done me.