today's sketches

Honour's Project: CTNX Animation Expo

Two weeks ago I attended the CTNX animation expo in Burbank, La. I had an awesome time meeting my favourite artists, animators and other CTNX attendees in general. Maaaan what a great time :)

While I was there I was able to chat with people from Nickelodeon, Disney, sony animation and freelancers regarding my University work. I asked around about their opinion if a physical performance in animation can convey a visual narrative without the use of dialogue? The response was quite interest. A physical performance and dialogue both play to their strengths and play as powerful tools in convey a story. But in animation a physical performance plays a large role in conveying a story.
Animators can produce a performance by listening to the audio and interpret a dialog, but without a visual performance can an animation still tell a story through a dialogue influenced performance?

The experience there at CTNX has given me more direction and consideration to how I will approach my final outcome.

Hungarian horned Dragon Concept

My friend is in the middle of his honors project and asked a bunch of people (Myself included) to come up with a design based off his description; Black skin, yellow eyes and bronze horns and spikes.
Most people did designs based off Bearded dragons with wings but I tried to do something a little different.

2D animation Test (Still working on it!)

For a week and a half now I've been practising my 2D animation skills. I've taken a audio clip to practice with phonemes and to get out of my comfort zone more.

Here's my progress so far,

it's been taking myself to animate this 5 second sequence for almost over a week and a half. I feel at this point it's taking a little longer than I hoped for.

So far I'm happy with what I've made so far, the pose to pose and the character motion to the audio compliment one another quite nicely.

I'm hoping I can finish this soon so to focus on other work in the future. Preferably 3D animation

Warm up drawing refined

I did a warm up drawing the other day and decided to go back and flech it out a bit. Inspired by Ghost Rider.

Baseball Doodles

Honour's Project: Horay for Presentations

This week I had a presentation to show the progress of my work. I went over my projects aims and the areas I researched to back up my statements.
For my Practical research I showed my previous animation from my last post (http://graythestranger.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/animation-practices.html) and a 2D animation I produced along with the presentation.

2D animatated baseball player

Overall the presentation as a success; I showed my research and explained my ideas and intentions across accompanied with small little animations.

From here I plan to produce volcalised animations to compare and contrast to my previous animations.

Here's a little version of myself dancing for you. Enjoy