Oh yea

I did attempt the 11 Second Club's May competition, but got promoted at work (unfortunately) and didn't have time to commit to it. I've been adding to it bit by bit, to be completed sometime in the future. Here we are so far.

Dragging my feet.

Well well well, in my last post I assured myself that I wasn't going to catch the summer bug and get distracted from my animated path. It happened. Don't get me wrong, I've drawn and drawn and animated a bit, but there are so many fun things to go and do in the sun.

A week ago, I moved into an apartment, leaving most of my distractions at my dad's house. So really the only thing to do here is animate. Which is AWESOME. In the past couple days I picked up Eric Goldberg's book and ran through three of his exercises on spacing.

I apologize for the quality, I need to find a way to darken these things.

In these exercises, I took Eric's keys and filled in my own inbetweens according to his charts.

Here, I took the basic idea of this chapter (using a large gap in spacing with enough inbetweens before and after to make it work believably), and applied it to Link.

Well, I think I'm going to give this month's 11 Second Club competition a try. www.11secondclub.com. This month's audio is a musical number, as opposed to the usual dialogue. Listening to it got me very excited and I settled on an idea for the piece. Updates can be expected as I make progress.

More random sketching

Little Girl

 A while ago I came up with an idea for a tiny short film and started designing the characters. This is my earliest design of the little girl in the short.

After drawing her over and over, and even doing a couple of animation tests, I decided that the design was flat and unappealing (not to mention ugly, embarrassing, yada yada). The name was also a no-no. So I went "back to the drawing board."

 I liked this design alot better. I felt like it was going in the right direction, but was disproportionate and  awkward. So I kept drawing.

I think I finally tied down what I'm looking for. On to the next character. Updates soon.