Hands

Here are some hands that I was working on in term two.

Expressions

Here are some short 2 -3 minute gestures as well as a few longer poses of some torso studies. I am starting to get looser and getting more life in my gestures, so improvement is always a plus. Hope you like.

This was a animal caricature assignment that followed our zoo trip in the third term. Inspirations were Ronald Searle and Stephen Silver.

I did a bunch of sketches of some animals that interested me a while ago. I wish I could tell you I did these from life, but that would be lying and that would be bad! These were drawn from photo reference… sigh.

This was a sketch I did from one of Joe Cockers CD covers.

In our fourth term we had to pitch three different stories for our final short in Flash. This is one of the stories I did and the one I chose for my final. We had to use 8 - 12 panels to tell our story. It is a tale of man's evolution, in which each successive triumph over his environment/situation only leads to new problems to solve. I think that this story would be more suited for Flash and will be more appropriate for a demo reel.

For our final in stop motion we recorded a track of one of our class mates in the style of Aardman's creature comforts. This is the character I constructed to suit the dialogue we recorded. I just have to finish all the different mouth positions and then I will be ready to animate to the track.

These are some quick and dirty shots from Francesco's i-phone.

Stop Motion

I have been taking a part time stop motion class at VANarts under Ken Priebe. It is a 12 week, once a week course where we cover the basics in stop motion. The last couple classes we were focusing on takes. Here is the test of the character I made I think it turned out alright and I had fun doing it.






Hey here is a morph I did. I kept it very simple because it was the very first morph I did. I think it turned out kind of funny.

We are still learning to animate with flash and we were given a different build this week.

The build was created by Vanarts and Animated and modified by myself.