Drawing Workshop Scans

I thought i’d update the blog with a few pages from my Drawing Workshop classes, to show my progress and such. For the classes we only had a minute or so to draw each of the poses that were made, we each did a pose for the rest of the class so it went round in a circle. Hopefully you will be able to see some sort of progress!


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The next two scans are different from the others, the first one is from an exercise where we had to first draw a scene with just lines, then one using just shading and finally one with a horizon line. In the second scan, there is a storyboard from where we had to draw each of the poses people made in one of the panels and add shading to alter the mood of each.

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The next two were for an imaginary storyboard where we were give just a random clipping from a newspaper, mine being ‘Strangers on a train‘ The first is the original storyboard in various shapes (to give it a different feel), and the second is where i tried to mesh all the final panels together into one big image.
I like the way the ‘big image’ storyboard turned out because it sets an intresting mood and i think its visually more fun to look at.

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And as you can see, this was the character design for Larry Stevens (the character that i used in my character animation test in the post before this).

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This next storyboard is a VERY rough outline storyboard for my part in a group project about provoking emotion in animation and such, ours (Me, Matt & Joe) being about how we first got into animating using that moment of inspiration.

As you can see it’s VERY rough and not clear at all, so expect better details and maybe a animatic before long.

And finally i will leave you with something unrelated to the rest of these images, but something else in my sketchpad – it is a character called Bob my friend Matt made up a good half a decade a go, which i attempted to improve, and i think he looked pretty nifty, so yeah, hope you like bob.

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Carrotar Animooshen

Last Tuesday we had Phillip Warner come in to teach us some character designing and animation, Here is a simplified version of my own character, that we each designed in Lewis’ session last friday or so, animated;

I was quite pleased with the finished result, but to improve it i need to add more bounce to his walk and keep him in the same place when he looks up, because he moves about a bit.

Adaption & Re-adaption group work

For this project, we had to get into small groups (ours was made up of Joe, Laura and George) and had to adapt an existing text out of the choices of poetry we were given.
Our choice was ‘Streets of Desire 4′ which was about a metaphorical woman running through a down, indicating the dreams people had of making a perfect town. Here was our finished storyboard; the second to fifth panels on the third row were by me.

For the next half of this project we had to take another group’s storyboard and improve on it by using different styles and the suggestions they were given. We discussed which to choose, and we chose ‘The Star and Chain’, a story about a child finding something a father lost a long time ago. We all discussed how we were going to do the various shots and then, chose who would do what element of the storyboard. I helped draw some of the additions to the photographs on certain shots such as in the antique store or on the stairs.
Here is our group’s final storyboard in order;

I think Edd is a pretty cool guy, eh makes blogs and doesn’t afraid of anything

Hello and welcome to my new fancy animation blog, featuring news and clips of animation stuff im doing at university!
So here is the first four videos, all of which are traditional animation tests;

Boxing glove test with anticipation and overlapping, the first attempt at this did not have enough overlapping so this is my improved version.

Tap dripping test with the droplet lingering in the tap before it falls, again my original attempt at this had the drop falling too fast without the lingering, so i returned to the test and added more frames and repeated them.

Upside down heavy box falling test, not very pleased with how this one came out because it looks more like a block of jelly falling than a heavy box, and it’s upside down.

Finally, this is a test where we had to use at least three different shots/angles with a simple background and characters.