So I've had an idea!

Not gonna post the plot cause it's not final, and I don't want folk pinching etc.


Gonnae get to drawing little boys now. 


/pedophile. 

So, my holidays are yet to prove useful.

I did get a job, though. Which is productive in a sense, but really killing my desire to draw. 


I need to get inspired. Some of the people who come into my work do really make me want to draw, but then another will come in who makes me want to kill myself, and that tends to take over. 


On a positive note, I have recently discovered Chowder. It is the funniest cartoon I have ever watched. 

Okay, so it's officially summer

And the job hunt has begun, so hopefully soon I will be way too employed to do much art.


Job or not, however, I have decided I'm going to actually learn how to do things digitally this summer, so hopefully I won't be abandoning this blog for months at a time again. Posts will be shite like, but at least they'll exist. 


And on that note, I'm off.

Original chuck design colour tests.

Ready, Steady, Chuck!

So, rather than a line test, here's chuck in all his glory.

Jesus, it's been a while.

Hey blog! What do you mean? It's me! Naw? Oh come on, I was busy. I won't do it again. I'm sorry blog, you now have my undivided attention. 


What even was the last thing I posted? Oh wow. Okay, here goes.


So, since then it's been like... 3 months. A whole semester, almost. So yeah, after designing the chef (now affectionately, and often resentfully) known as Chuck, the class voted Jamie's design as the best one, and we all got to work learning how to draw him. Not an easy task, but with Jamie constantly cracking the whip (metaphorically, of course) we all soon got to grips with it. Well, basically. 

So after a while of practicing mad poses and the like, we got working on the plot of the 40 second piece we were going to animate. The plot changed about a million times, but we settled on one eventually. This was actually well after we'd storyboarded a few times, pretty frustrating like.


So yeah, once all was sorted, we got to doing 10 seconds worth of keyframing each. Once that was done, we swapped about and started inbetweening. New discovery? I hate inbetweening more than charting and dopesheets combined. Traditional animation keeps slipping down the list of ways I want to work, but you still can't beat how it looks.




I'll stick up a few line tests within the next couple of days ( I promise!) I just need to buy a new memory stick first. No idea where mines has gone.

Semester 2, off with a bang.

So for the last week, I've been designing Ben's design of a builder/chef guy for our group project. Thought I'd chuck a bunch of drawings on here.

Final design work -

design breakdown

model sheet turnaround

expressions

Colour work -