Dive dive dive!

Today I took the liberty of partaking in a mini-challenge over on the 11 Second Club Blog. The challenge was to animate a character on a diving board. I'm actually pretty happy with it.

This is always fun

Haven't done one of these in a while. I just sit and draw whatever comes to mind, or whatever passes into my field of vision.

Drawing from Life (kinda)

    I've been doing alot of figure drawing using this site: http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php. It's not as good as the real thing, but when the closest figure drawing group is thirty+ miles away, you improvise.

   Here are some 2 minute sketches.

And below are some 30 second sketches. These are the funnest to do. Since you only have 30 seconds, it forces you to stop thinking in terms like "arm", "leg", "neck", etc. and instead makes you focus on shape.

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.