A Fashion animation journal, week one

We were given two weeks to animate a short five to ten second piece related to fashion. My task was to show a catwalk model takes a step a step and her heel breaks, she falls over and reacts.

Day 1: 21/01/13

I Started off going into Youtube, looking at catwalk model falling over to get some ideas done.









Then after that was done I started off developing the character. Someone reckoned my character look familiar to Spanish actress Rossy be Palma looks.









Day 2: 22/01/13

After I got an idea what the character will look like, I gone to rough storyboards, to show what the story will be.







Day 3: 23/01/13

After I done the storyboards, I went to the light-box and draw down a few model walk cycles of the model in rough form.





Day 4: 24/01/13 and Day 5: 25/01/13

Then once again I went back onto a light-box and this time I draw down the keyframes in pencil. After that was finished scanned into Photoshop, then put into Flash for the rough keyframes below.



Part 2 soon. Bye.

More After Effects work

After a few weeks of not posting on this blog, here’s a new post. A few new techniques I have learn in After Effects.







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Back in After Effects

For the first time in a while, I haven't done any animations in Adobe After Effects. But, last week (22/1/13) I went back into the program for the first time, did a few animations to back to grips with After Effects. And here they are a few animations below I did in After Effects through the day.







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Animal Walking part 2

Second post of my snakehound walking. This is continue from the first post.

I had another go of redoing the snakehound walking (14/1/13), on the pervious attempt I started off by looking at Richard Wiliams theory of animating a dogs walk cycle.  This time I used Steve Robert's theory on animating a walk cycle, which I found easier to understand to animate with. Got some feedback, one opinion was that the back leg once again didn't look smooth with the upper rear leg and the upper front leg as-well. However, this was an improvement from the pervious attempt.



Then later in the week (16/1/13), I had a first attempt of doing a basic rough snakehound run cycle as-well.




Overall, more to come from this project.

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Birds and the bees (I really means to say the hornets) animated

During the morning session on Monday morning (14/1/13), a little exercise on doing birds, insects, snakes and fishes cycles. I had a go at the flying insect cycle. I based my flying insect on a hornet, which was basically draw the hornet in six different wing positions.

Then, I scanned all the frames into Photoshop and Illustrator to tidy up each image. Then drag the files into Flash to give this animation blow.



Got some instance feedback to make the frames a faster pace. Also blur the wings in a few frames to give it a faster pace to the viewer.

After I done this, I went back into Flash. Shrink the Hornet a little bit more and added some colour to give the final animation below.



Then, I had a go on doing a flying bird cycle. However, due to I did not had a lot of time, I only managed to do the keyframes only.



Good little exercises nonetheless.

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I've not been to National Gallery this time, but instead I've been to...

I've not been to National Gallery this time, but instead I've been to the Natural History Museum at South Kensington this week (9/1/13), doing a few sketches of some of the stuff animals inside the museum. I started off drawing down at least five different animals inside the museum.

Then, after drawing down at least five different animals, we had to decided to draw at least one of the animals put them into a story with only putting them in five frames. I based my story around the Natural History Museum, I used the sloth bear, and at the end of the story, the sloth bear finds the stuff sloth bear. If I had a sixth frame, I would have made the real sloth bear in tears. Nether-less a good days exercise.

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Animal Walking part 1

As I said in a previous post, I have decided to develop the snakehound creature. So I started off doing some basic walk cycles.

But instead of doing a dog cycle first, I decided to try a horses walk cycle for an exercise. I started of by drawing a simple horse by looking at 'How to draw animals' by Jack Hamm, which I have looked at the book before perviously how to draw a perfect bear for my research.

Then, I started to draw down a horse doing a walk cycle on the lightbox. Got some feedback, the feedback was a good walk cycle but the rear top legs need to be more smooth while walking.



Then, I had a go of doing a dog walk cycle. I started off by looking at Richard Wiliams theory of animating a dogs walk cycle in 'The Animator's Survival Kit', in page 330-331 how to do a basic animal walk pattern. I used his version of the walk cycle because I have use this perviously in a pervious project.

After I looked at Richard Wiliams theory of a dog walk cycle, I started to drawn down the snakehounds walk cycle down onto the lightbox. After I got down in Flipbook (animation below is taken on my iphone due to give you guys looking at the walk cycle for a few more seconds to give a feel to it).  Got some instant feedback, one was I have gave the snakehound some attitude, just like a model going down a runway. An other opinion was the back legs in one frame was doing a moonwalking instead of walking.



Overall, need to improve on the rear of the dog walk cycle. A lot of work to go, although a good start nonetheless.

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