Sketch books/life drawing classes, 2012/13, year 1

During my first year on the MA Character Animation course, I have done a few life drawing classes through the last eight months from October 2012 to June 2013. I did not had the time to upload them during term time, now I have time to spare, it is the right time to uploaded them. Unfortunately, I do not not have the space on this website to do so. But, I do on my other website, on this link right here   to find. So enjoy looking at them.





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Waterloo sketches exercises

This post should have been posted around six months ago, but I forgot to do so. So better late than later. Anyway, the class went to Waterloo Station (13\2\13), to do a few drawing exercises. The morning exercise was to draw one area of Waterloo station and draw five different sketches of different views inside the station.



So therefore, I used the signboard above the centre of the station for my reference of the sketches below.



The afternoon session meanwhile, was to make a mini storyboard to create at least six sketches involving one person or more being in-an event that begins in Waterloo station and finishes outside by the river.





For that, I drawn down nine sketch to create my story with, which was a love story to find someone outside the South Bank Centre, were the story ends.



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Final piece for BPMA

After weeks of researching and animating my final piece for the BPMA (British Postal Museum and Archive).

One big change was the audio for the animation. A few weeks back I had to change composer, due to scheduling problems. So I got a new composer and got the track down. But, the final piece had the sound effects remove due to it didn’t match up with the audio below and after a few times listening to it, I decided it to remove the sound effects.

For the moment I won't be uploading the animation for the moment, due to some technical problems. But for now here's some screen-shots below.





End of project.

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One pissed off Horse (animated that is)

Final bit of my animation I need to do is the pissed off horse scene were my lead horse is pissed off by driver fixing the wheel and horse thinks his stupid. So I started off with the key-frames into the main animation first.



After that, I  gone onto the lightbox and started on my drawing the in-between frames, then jump onto Flipbook, to check out if the in-between frames worked.



Also, I played around with some frames and delete them as I felt the animation could be too smooth and too slow.



After some feedback, the first option was better than the second option. So I scan the images and jumped into Photoshop to paint the scene. Place the frames into After Effects for the final animation.



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Rough Cut Review for animation

Rough Cut Review of the animation so far, with the Key frame animation so far in for review for the 22nd May meeting with the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA) as the video below shows.



For feedback and the main one I got to do, is to add a final scene to the animation. And the final scene I ask for feedback is the St Martins-le-Grand building in Central London, as this link shows.



So I used the St Martins-le-Grand building above for my final scene as reference, as the image below shows.



Finally, another bit of feedback is to make the animation a bit more gritty in style or more old fashion. This can be easily done with filters in After Effects. And that is all with feedback so far.

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coachmen and footmen for forth coming project

Character designs for the forth coming project with the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA). First I started off by drawing down some rough ideas of my coachmen and footmen may look like.



Then I continue with character designs more with some more drawings with some added colour below.



Then I gone into Illustrator, this time I drawn down what the characters will look like in Illustrator, would be easily to animated in After Effects.

Instant feedback, I needed to added some rough outside lines to the characters which I've shown in the concept art perviously showed.



So I went back to drawing board and added some rough outside lines to the characters in Illustrator as shown below.



Now it's time to animate in After Effects.

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Creating and animating a Horse

Now I've started to go into development mode for the forth coming project with the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA). I have started to work on animating the horse, I went through the internet and books to see how a horse will look like and how to draw a horse.



After that, I gone onto YouTube to look for horses in animation. I looked at a few Disney films which has horses in such as Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Mary Poppins to name a few.







Also, I looked at Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, to see how they would have draw a horse in each film.







Then, I gone onto the lightbox and started of by drawing a rough simple horse and mail coach carriage for practice.




After that, I properly gone onto the lightbox and started on my drawing of a simple horse walk-cycle's and run-cycles by looking at 'How to draw animals' by Jack Hamm.

Walk 1 test



Run 1 test



Walk 2 test



Run 2 test



Walk 3 test



By looking at the results above I felt that portions need to looked less more of a Pony then a Horse walking a few times and also with the run-cycle the back legs needed to be stretch out.

So, I looked at Richard Wiliams theory of animating a horse walk and run cycles in 'The Animator's Survival Kit', in page 356-359 how to do a basic horse walk and run patterns. As-well, I looked at Steve Roberts 'Character Animation Fundamentals' for horse walk and run cycle's. Then for a formula I taken out the real like drawings of Horses from 'Jack Hamm' and added the simpleness of the walk-run cycles' of Steve Roberts and Richard Williams on how they did it as my Walk and Run cycles below shows.

Walk 4 test



Run 4 test



Next up some human characters to draw.

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