Detective stories

roughly executed but almost what i had in mind. Meant to have 3 more of these done by tomorrow. ha

Green Candy

10-15min sketches

Mojo GoGo - Dancing With Me On Your Mind

I did a little work for this video. Just the 2d stuff. Shaun Doogan & Ciaran McCann did the whole video. Turned out awesome. yay

Adam & Dog

Havent watched it yet, but the trailer was enough. Full version online! yay! I love the art in this

BOOOOOING!

Paperman!

YAAAAAAAAAAAY. I've been waiting on this one for a while. Disneys 'Paperman'. Enjoy!

Floor

Not the final look. Something to look at whilst i figure it out

The Floor

Basic concept from my 'Narrative & Visual Storytelling' class this morning. Write a story using an inanimate object with a conflict in the middle & a resolution. Picked the most obvious thing in the room. It's redecoration time!

Well, what a letdown

I didn't work on this. simply put.. a few doodles and no effort. I only put it together to show a mentor i made a start.

The Wedding Audio

So this will roughly be the audio for the Wedding animation, cut short at around the 1:00 mark. The narrator and all round awesome person is Alan Watts. Check him out

Piano Burps

The new single from god

Poetry

roughing out scenes

The Church

Almost there. Flowers and all that will be added when painting

MUSHKA

Andreas Dejas new short film. lovely little trailer

The Most Horrible Email...

So, i recently received an email from a fellow doodler with a crit on my work..

This is just a little update to say thanks! :D I want to show this (hope you don't mind) to help other artists or at least just let them see where i went wrong. I got lazy by the time i got to the hips/dress and didn't do any construction work under the dress (her legs). Because of this, the image doesn't read right, as illustrated by the drawover (see below)

He mentions Straights vs Curves, one of the basic principals. Examples found here: Seven Camels - Straights Vs Curves and here: Elephant Art - Straights Vs Curves (also check out that blog for his doodles and photo reference) The silhouette is basically used to check how clear your drawing is being read without any of the details. I realised that i wasn't remembering to always refer back to these aids. The basic principals can be found in the first chapter of the Disney book 'Drawn to Life'. An essential for any animator. You might not want to buy it, but you can at least flick through the first few pages on Amazon, and maybe pick up on some of the things he is talking about, but naturally you'd be better with a physical copy to refer to. Here is the link to the book on Amazon where you can preview it. Amazon - Drawn to Life If you want to buy it, i would go to the Book Depository. Free shipping and you will usually find a better price.. Book Depository - Drawn to Life Finally, i wanted to share some of Preston Blairs tutorials. As far as im aware, these are up as a free resource so gooooooooooo! Animation Resources - Preston Blair And with that, i say thankyou again Mr.Man! your time and effort is much appreciated. This is the best link you'll click all day

Dog Rough Storyboard

The Wedding

The answer to all lifes problems. make it bigger and hide it behind something. yeah!

The Dog

Slow day. having trouble with drawing dogs

One character down

testing color

never been good with color

The Wedding

A quick image to get into the mood for this animation.

2 doodles from class

nnyah!

so terribly bored of this project.

That'll do

An Off-Sync Countdown. boo..yah?

Cutout Animation

I added some simple sounds. This was shot in two parts, thats why there's different lighting for the 2nd half. Its rough, and dumb, but i like it. At this point, as long as im doing any kind of animation im happy. It might not be all out character animation using 3d space just yet but its still a lot of fun.

Cutout Animation Test

a quick in-class animation. check out the new youtube page for our class too and check out everyone elses work! yeah! doing things! http://www.youtube.com/user/lyitanimation

This thing..