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I joined a kickball league !! lol

This should be a bunch of fun. oh man !

AND thanks to my awesome googling/tweeting/blogging powers I have more even more information, drawings, character model sheets, tutorials, tips, tricks, notes, you name it for traditional and 3D animation.
What more could I possibly want ?

oh man. I so excite ! lol

hmm.. i posted those two animations twice..

oh well

its my blog and i'll post twice if i want too..

Oldies but Goodies

An old animation from 2006 or 2007.. I dunno..

The object was to animate a 10 second countdown. We had to come up with 10 separate ideas, then storyboard the best one.

I draw everything out by hand. I did a pencil test and then imported everything into photoshop where I colored the images.
Then I took those badboys to Premiere and made the animation.
Anywho, old animation but I really liked my concept.. I might possibly "remix" it... lol




The animation below is just a simple morph loop. I morphed a maple leaf into a maple tree, pretty.. uh.. basic.. lol One of the first animations I did.

undergoing some changes !! : ) the blog i mean.. lol

Thinking about waiting.

Still think I'm gonna wait about a week or so before I move on to Lesson Two. Even though I know I can draw these heads and stuff everyday, I really want to have the basic construction down pretty well. Even though I probably am fine to move on, practice makes perfect and no ones perfect, so I'll just keep practicing ! What can it hurt ? Nothing, in my opinion.

Oh, and I realized that I've 65% of the time drawn straight ahead, I get amazing results most of the time, but its cool to know that's what I did when I was younger. I would though, start with basic construction as I got older, or had a book where it showed basic construction tho.

Larry's Toon Institute

I'll lump together Lessons from both that are on the same topic. Here's a lesson on Basic Head Construction from LTI.

These are really more notes than anything. He's very descriptive. I like that. Especially the part about the eyes. 

More on construction of heads. I'm nothing if thorough. : )

Here, he talks about more in-depth and detailed characters and how to go about achieving characters like that. 

Lesson One Complete

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 1

Scanned all of Lesson One

These Drawings are from the Preston Blair with notes. 

These egg drawings are from my Model Egg

These are the first run of drawings from the Preston Blair Animation Book.  I have my corrections in red pencil. Pretty much, the only problems was not paying enough attention to the little details. 

Second Run, Paid more attention to the details, and had sharper pencils.. lol