Pogo Jump Animation Progression

In a tweet by Chris Chua, animator at Pixar and CalArts grad (who is one of the animators I look up to) gave some great advice:

Chris Chua‏@ChrisChua007

"Animators, take time to plan, thumbnail and shoot video reference. You'll thank yourself later!"

So decided to do exactly this.

Reference:



Planning:


Rough Animation:



Cleaned Up


Through this process I learned the importance of planning, I've begun to use reference more and more but before usually never planned an animation out on paper before animating. This experience has 'convinced' me  to always plan out the poses and timing before actually animating and I plan on doing this always.

Thanks for reading!

Life Gesture Drawing 016 and 017

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The Monk of Polar Peak

Over at Animation Forum, there is a Character Design competition entitled, "Monk of Polar Peak". The dead line is Jan. 29th, still time to enter:

http://www.animationforum.net/forum/showthread.php?p=83493#post83493

Here's my entry!

Princess and the Frog Sketches

Hey there!

Last night I didn't have practice or any homework so I had a little back-to-back animation action. UP then Princess and the Frog. While watching, I was in such an 'Art' mood, I started storyboarding a short and drew a bunch. Here's some sketches from watching Princess and the Frog:



Thanks for reading!

Got the results of my first Basic Painting/Mixed Media Project, will post pictures and blog about it tomorrow.

See you then!

Lee MW (CartoonyAnimator)

Life Gesture Drawing 015

More Filbur the Fox

More Filbur!

Filbur the Fox Character Design

Filbur the Fox

A fox who is friendly to all but a little timid. Afraid of loud noises, he sometimes is reluctant to embark on adventures.