Crew Work Showreel thus far

Crew Work

It's been a while since my last post so this will be a big one. Part of my module is that we get to work on the current third years films and at the moment I am working on a film called Rabbit Life. I have been asked to do some walk cycles for some of the characters. Unfortunately I have either been too busy or forgot to upload them on here as I have done them, so I will upload all of the cycles I have done so far now.

The first one is a character named Monty and he has a confident walk. I did struggle with doing a front angle cycle as I haven't done that before but I was pleased with how these turned out.






This next one was an accident as I downloaded the wrong character turnaround, but I thought I'd upload it anyway as I liked how it turned out and it was good practice. This is Lady Dog. I had a little trouble with animating her chest and dress but I think it looks okay.




Now this is the character I was supposed to do, Doggy. The words to describe his walk are slow, slouchy and stoner. I was asked to do a back angle as well and that was new for me. I had an attempt at it and for the first time I don't think it's too bad. I really liked working on all of these cycles and looking forward to working on some more shots for this film.

11 Second Club

Our new project was to animate to a sound clip taken from the website 11 second club. Originally my idea was going to be quite serious and sad, but the actual tone of the voice in the audio clip did not sound serious enough to be able to pull it off. So I tried a more of a comedy route.

We were to focus on the animation and not the style or backgrounds or things like that, so please ignore the blandness. Sadly I didn't have time to upload it onto the 11 second club. The rig was taken from a website, which escapes me unfortunately, so no credit to me. I really enjoyed working on this and making both characters react to the audio, it was a lot of fun.

Hope you enjoy it!

Funny in 15

This is the 'finished' film of our Funny in 15 project. We do still have some time to patch it up, but overall I'm happy with it. We had a few problems with it. Our original script and storyboard was too long and we had to fix that and cut it down so it would be 15 seconds long. We used Flash for this.

I drew the tables and chairs, did key frames, inbetweens, lip sync and clean up on the princess, animated the spaghetti and also did clean up on some parts with the prince.

Life Drawing

These images are all from the life drawing sessions I've had so far this second year. These ones are very short timed drawings, just trying to capture the shape of the model. I guess my main goal this year is to try and not make my drawings stiff. Even though these are very rough, I do feel like I have managed to not make them rigid.

These next two images are done by having the model move around and we have to try and capture the movements. I'm not going to lie I'm not a big fan of doing this because I just get confused and it looks messy. However I do like the first one here as you can see some form than in the second image.

These next set of images we were draw with the side of the charcoal so that we wouldn't draw the outline first. We were to get the overall shape and form first and then if there was time, work more detail into them. I really enjoyed this sort of style, and try to remember to use this in my next sessions. I find it a lot easier to catch the shape using this style.

 

These poses were to add character and emotion to them and to try and convey it on to paper.

This was done by looking at the model and not looking at the paper I was drawing on. I did accidentally peek a few times, but this one fun to do and see how it would turn out.

For this one we were told to focus on the the shape/outline of the model and instead of drawing a black line to show the shape, we were to treat the whole pose, objects as one shape and to black out the background. I find this sort of style difficult as I am so used to drawing the outline.  

I coloured the whole page in charcoal and using a rubber I rubbed out the parts where light was most prominent on the model. I'm not too happy with this one, if I had more time I would have liked to try and fix it.

These ones range from 10 to 30 minutes to draw.

These two are favourite ones from this set, I wish I had more time to finish them off. The poses are much more interesting to draw. I would have loved to add more detail to them. 

Funny in 15

We have been given our first project, Funny in 15 in 5. Which means we have to create a funny animation in 5 weeks. We were able to choose our groups and I'm in a group of three.

After brainstorming different ideas, one person in our group came up with doing a slight twist on a Disney princess. Then we thought about all the Disney characters we could use and we all settled on Sleeping Beauty. The idea, coming from a member in our group, is to make Sleeping Beauty (Aurora) a narcoleptic. She's on a date with Prince Philip, they're talking and at some point she will fall asleep and her head will slam to the table.

I worked on some kind of character designs of Princess Aurora's face. We all agreed not to make a direct copy from Disney. For her, we wanted her to look innocent, big eyes etc.

2nd Year

Hello! I have now entered my second year at uni and looking forward to start posting more work.