15 second pre-production

So next quarter I have to do a 15 second long hand drawn animation for my Advanced traditional animation class. And since that takes up most of the time the second half of the intermediate 2D class was dedicated to the pre-production work for it. Like, storyboards, phoneme charts, expression sheets, character model sheets, etc. So here is some of the work I did for that.

Model sheets (excuse the crappy scan quality I was lazy and didn't want to rescan :\ )-




Expression sheets:




1 of 30 something Exposure sheets ( an x-sheet pretty much outlines everything your character does or says in a sequence frame by frame. So if a character raises his arm, you'll need to write that it starts on frame 7 and ends on frame 15 or something to that effect. It's tedious) -


1 of 4 phoneme charts for each speaking character ( A phoneme chart just gives you the mouth position of each sound in a word) -



Animatic (I'm aware that there is a strange jump at the beginning where the boy is walking down a hall and then there is an over the shoulder shot. He turns his head while he's walking down the hall. I just didn't draw it. It's in the X-sheets though)-



I did not choose the audio clip. It was given to me by the instructor and it's such a lamesauce audio clip I had the hardest time trying to figure out what to do with it :\

That's pretty much all for now. I did have another in-betweening project but I don't want to upload it for the simple fact that I'm not happy with it. Maybe I'll put up some more sketches later on in the week to balance out all the school work I've been posting.

I've never fired a gun before

Here's my Intermediate 2D final. We had to animate a 2 second lipsync to an audio clip the instructor gave us. I don't think I did too bad a job with it. The movements are too fast however and the proportions are all over the place so of course it still bothers the hell out of me. tomorrow I'll put up my pre-production work for my 15 second animation I'll be working on for next quarter.

Shadow turnaround

Hi there! I've been a bit busy at school the past couple weeks and haven't really been able to update anything, but now that school is out and I have 3 weeks of summer break maybe I'll be able to post alittle more often.

Well this is a turntable animation in Zbrush of my final character in my character modeling class. I didn't get the chance to give him hair ( or rather I don't really know how I would go about giving him hair.) and I didn't get to work on the face too much but I'm still fairly happy with how it came out. Tomorrow I'll be putting up more of my finals from this quarter so stay tuned.