Wednesday, October 06, 2010

thumbnail acting

before I start animating, I sometimes will do rough thumbnail drawings to plan the basics of what I want to have happen in the shot. This is an assembling of the thumbnail drawings for a scene in the cartoon I'm currently working on, which I've roughly timed to the music here:

all the basics of what I want are there- a lady pig is in bed, is awakened by noise outside, leaps out of bed and angrily stomps to the window to look out. the last pose is supposed to tie into the action of the next shot is her opening the windows then covering her ears.
the shot before the one in the clip is a vertical pan from the following image:
up to her window:the empty space beside the "Louie's Granola Bar" sign is going to be filled by a building that is bouncing about in time to the music, and will be animated separately and added later.

My next step in animating this "bedroom scene" of my cartoon will be to re-draw the scene again at the actual size I want to work in; first I'll create a layout drawing that includes all the details of the bedroom, and places the character and any other object where I want them to be for optimal compositional effect. On some of my shots I'll do some video reference at this point, though for this shot the actions are simple enough I may be able to skip that step and get right to animation.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

another title card


having decided on a title for my animated short, I've finally completed the last of the title cards for the short. Now to finish the animation...

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Wen's'day Comics Volume 3 Issue 7

it may be late, but it's still wednesday! I just finished coloring the last piece of this week's page, so here it is, hot off the press!
Who knows when the next one will be, as I'm gonna try to get some more work done on my animation project, but rest assured, it won't end here. there's plenty more fun on the way!


Previous issues:
vol. 1, iss. 1
vol. 1, iss. 2
vol. 1, iss. 3
vol. 1, iss. 4
vol. 1, iss. 5
vol. 1, iss. 6
vol. 2, iss. 1
vol. 2, iss. 2
vol. 2, iss. 3
vol. 2, iss. 4
vol. 2, iss. 5
vol. 2, iss. 6
vol. 3, iss. 1
vol. 3, iss. 2
vol. 3, iss. 3
vol. 3, iss. 4
vol. 3, iss. 5
vol. 3, iss. 6
OR- See them BIG!!!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Apocryphal Wednedays # 1



This is what you get when I don't have time to finish the regular comics for the week: a strip that is just a rough doodle and not actually part of the official Canon of any of my usual series. enjoy! hopefully next week I should have an actual new page of comics for you...

Saturday, September 04, 2010

edwin cartoon progress: scene 18


I'm slowly moving forward with the short cartoon. this is a still frame of the Hedda Gobbler character, from scene 18B, which is all of 38 frames long, meaning that it is on screen for less than 2 seconds. I have it basically animated, just need to clean-up the key drawings and do in-between poses before I can ink and color the entire scene to look as nice as this image...

Thursday, August 26, 2010

the Secret Project is progressing...

and here's a couple sneak peeks! I don't want to give too much away, but I'll say this much- it's a 3 minute cartoon, all musical pantomime (no talking!) and it's all done in the same kind of 30's cartoon style as the Edwin Aardvark comic strip series I based it on.

It's got everything you'd expect from a great 30's-style cartoon:

Musical animals:




a dancing moose:
an angry battle-axe:

Impossible visual gags:

Lovely ink-wash backgrounds:
Pathos:
Inanimate objects come to life:
policemen:and looped animating 3/4 perspective backgrounds:

Thursday, July 29, 2010

this is actually kinda big...

I've decided to begin a project that may take a while to complete, but here's one small part that's already done:

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

"Edwin Walk Cycle" in HD Perspectascope and vivid KindaColor!

here it is! The colorful, action-packed motion picture that has all the critics raving! You won't be the same after you see this picture! The greatest spectacle of ours or any time! Don't! Miss! It!




translation: here's a dumb animation I did of Edwin Aardvark.