Character Animation Experiment

Character Animation Experiment

Character animation experiment for Animation Group Spring 2018 Class. In this 4 second silent clip, Thanos is babbling on about something though we know not what. Can you guess? Thank you Ben Worrell @benlikestodraw for permission to use your Infinity War fan art and for drawing this very cool Thanos!
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Dog Walk Cycle Animation

Dog Walk Cycle Animation

Continuing from my last post featuring this character. Here is a seven second video after the dog has been rigged and animated. For the walk cycle I only needed to create four different poses and then repeat them. I reused the background from the pepper animation because that prop was
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Preparing a Character Design to be Animated

Preparing a Character Design to be Animated

This character, designed by one of our students (Dingofast), was originally drawn and colored on paper. First, I took a photo of her drawing and imported it into Toon Boom Harmony. Then, I traced her character design to create a digital version of her work. Next I will rig this
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Animation Walk Cycle Experiment

Animation Walk Cycle Experiment

I was experimenting with an animation walk cycle. The 1st generation result is this five second video. It’s amazing what you can accomplish with Toon Boom Harmony. One of our students, Akidoodles, created the street shops background design. Thank you to Tony Ross for the pepper character design.
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Concept In Process

Concept In Process

Again and again I have directed my students to begin with thumbnail sketches so they can move quickly through the creative process and easily make changes on the fly. Some I have driven crazy with my insistence about working this way. Here I am following this same piece of advice
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Stick Figure Animations – Keeping It Simple

Stick Figure Animations – Keeping It Simple

I’ve always enjoyed creating stick figure animations, probably because they are so easy and quick to make and despite lack of detail, its still possible to tell an interesting story in a few seconds. I’ve been drawing stick-figure animations from the time when I was eight years old. The one below I had
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