Working on one of the previously mentioned projects. I swear, the amount of time i spend being productive is extremely embarrassing. I need deadlines.
This is a segment from the animation. I need to work on timing and.. figure out ways to blend the little block pushing segments together. I'm glad I'm finally getting some weight practice in.
I've got two projects to finish and I think I like both of them.. but I would like some opinions to see what others think I should do differently. I'm also currently just reading up on Drawn to Life and The Animator's Survival Kit because I feel like I've forgotten some of the principles of animation.. in regards to animating people in the way that I want to.
These are just some really rough sketches.. I definitely need to rework some things and I'm struggling to find a way to connect some of the animations toward the end together. Aside from that I'm loving TVpaint and the camera function.
I scribbled this out the other day.. The idea is that this guy starts working for works sake and eventually finishes a giant statue of his boss.. but in turn he's become old and has spent his life attaining someone elses goals. I had other images in my head for it, but I really need to practice rotating things in space.. i'm horrible at it. lol
Other than those projects, I've done a Halloween thing and a simple request from a friend.. Even if they're kind of bad, at least I have a better understanding of TVPaint.
This animation exaggerates what I remember about my childhood Halloween.. being forced to go to church and dress as Moses or a lamb and put on plays about the bible. Being told "Don't come dressed as anything scary!" lol I think in the future I'll avoid doing stuff involving religion..
Heres the original post: http://www.joshbeswick.com/2012/10/fighting-inactivity-with-2-year-old.html
This was the first thing I did in TVPaint.. it's really simple. A friend asked me to make something involving this tank called the Starship.. and it had to do with that song 'Starships are meant to fly' or some shiz. I think it's a Katy Perry song, so I certainly wasn't going to use it in the animation.. just pretend it's playing. lol
I really need to look into creating my own sounds for these animations.
My summer was wasted, yet again. Many a game was played, many a laugh was had.. but now it's back to business.. fighting off urges to check facebook, youtube, google+, and reddit in a disgusting never ending loop while I work on a Halloween animation that I originally wanted to animate 2 years ago.
Been working on an animation. It's mostly about this hobo character who is always scheming for.... stuff. I imagine he's sort of like a mythological trickster, always joking around, pissing people off.
I want it to start out with the question "Why do they call you Jungle Buzzard anyway, Hopkins?" and the main character, Hopkins, not really wanting to answer until he spots a pile of items he can steal.. leading to him telling a West African myth, Anansi and the box of stories, purely for distraction purposes. Each animal Anansi captures in the story correlates to a hobo around the campfire. The snake gets tied to a stick, and so does a hobo.. the leopard falls in a hole.. etc.
Eventually someone will catch on, like the inch tall fairy at the end of the story will end up being humongous and take Hopkins out of the little dream world he's created to see the big guy just walloping him to the ground and knocking all the supplies he was attempting to steal everywhere. Then somehow they'll all realize a jungle buzzard is a hobo who preys on other hobos.
Added some temporary audio to a storyboard for timing purposes, and then started designing some characters. I'd be greatful for any comments on this.. been getting an awful lot of backpedaling from people who are afraid to give an honest opinion. Comments that actually specifically say what you didn't like are best. Was it too slow? Did it make sense at all? What would you change?
This was day 18 of the drawing challenge, Comic, but it got out of control.. now I want to make an animation/motion comic type thing. Heres what I have so far. Tell me what you think.. any criticism this early on is awesome.
Day 15: Your Spirit Animal
I chose either the coyote or the fox because they were both represented as tricksters by ancient myths. I'm not exactly tricking anybody, or even cunning or full of wisdom.. but I do tend to act foolish, funny.. etc.
Day 16: What you wanted to be when you grew up.
I remember drawing Garfield all the time and people saying "he's the next Jim Davis". So I somehow got it into my little kid head that I was actually going to replace him. lol
Day 17: Something sentimental
Day 20: Boba Fett or Darth Vader
Did a little color study after reading some articles too. Also ordered James Gurney's Color and Light which should get here around Wednesday. Yesss.
Theres clearly something wrong with my color profile or whatever its called. I just got Photoshop and it's doing the same exact thing Corel Painter does. Light beige grays turn into pitch black blues when I save them as jpgs.
Space is a wide open vacuum thats always expanding.. and I'd feel claustrophobic as hell in space. Not to mention I almost puked while on a ferris wheel. I'll stick to drawing astronauts puking in space, thank you.
