Partington’s Proficiency

After many story beats, mountains of rough boards, and a few changes, my leica reel for storyboarding is finally finished.  We had to create our own stories, based on the theme ‘I hate you’.  We had to add music and sound effects.  Adobe Premiere is easier to work than Pro Tools.  Over the holidays I might post all the rough work that came before this.  Hopefully you can follow along with the boards.  Enjoy.

Like always, I wish I could have spent more time on this animation.  We had to create two contrasting characters and animate them in a walk cycle, run cycle, and include some sort of small interaction between them.  Both characters are supposed to be gangsters from the 20’s or 30’s (Bonnie and Clyde-esque), only the female is the tough badass and the man’s a dumb wimp.  Hah.  I love animation for that reason.  I spent the majority of my time animating the woman, and it shows.  The timing is off but I blame Flipbook for that haha.  This was my first run cycle and the first time I included smear drawings.  Enjoy.

This animation assignment nearly killed me.  Not because it was overly difficult, but because I couldn’t manage my time properly.  There are several mistakes (no, really), and I want to go back and fix them because I actually like the animation for the most part.  Timing and spacing is something that’s going to take awhile (forever?) to master.  But hey, I’m trying!

We had to create our own character (yay) and animate them anticipating, struggling to lift something heavy, struggle to throw said object, follow through and end in a believable resting position.

Midterm tomorrow and then reading week.  Hoping to update this thing more.

Really, really, really want to fix this up.  Enjoy.

In my character design class, our professor, Pete Emslie (http://cartooncave.blogspot.com/) had us watch ‘Rabbit of Seville’, a Looney Toons short from 1949.  Pete paused on great action poses from the short and had us sketch them out quickly.  He wanted us to capture the gesture that is the foundation of a great action pose.  It was the best in-class assignment I think I’ve ever had.  Below are my sketches and the short.  Maybe you’ll spot them in the film?  Enjoy.

The first animation assignment of the year really stressed animating on different levels.  By that I mean, simply animating every object on a different sheet of paper and combining them when shooting the animation.  Does that make sense?  Hmm…

We had to animate the flour sack in a boat (or anything, I chose a bowl), and show the sack being forcefully tossed into the air by the water.  When he falls back into the bowl, we had to animate a large splash.

I animated each object at a separate time, so after three weeks it’s all come together.  The splash at the end is barely visible, thanks to the bad compression.  Wish I could upload the Flipbook file instead.

I probably would have made the bowl and flour sack bigger.  After four long months of sans animating, it was nice to jump right into an assignment.  A little rusty though ;D  Enjoy.

This is my first animal walk cycle and that’s evident.  We’re all our own worst critics when it comes to art and animation.  The front legs are rough and need work.  The front right leg doesn’t extend back far enough, giving a limp look to it.  The back right leg, when I first shot the animation, didn’t lift off the ground.  I really shouldn’t animate at three in the morning.  I went back and fixed up the leg, it looks a bit better.  If only I had more time, and didn’t have a migraine (that’s not an excuse, I swear!).  I really want to animate another greyhound as well as other animals this summer.  Keeping the front legs a third ahead of the back legs is challenging but fun.  Oh, just a quick side note - I shot this animation on two’s when I probably should have shot it on one’s.  I will post the one’s animation when I get time to shoot it again. Enjoy.

Here’s my first animated head turn and lip sync.  There’s always room for improvement, and I’m looking forward to animating more lip syncs.  Oh, I chose Harley Quinn from Batman: The Animated Series, ’cause she’s tough and sexy!  Enjoy.

Here’s my Pink Panther walk in Toon Boom Digital Pro.  I chose to colour PP green X)  Enjoy.

Here’s my extremely rough animation of the Pink Panther walk cycle.  I animated this in one, five hour sitting ;_;  I’d love to try this again when I have more time.  Try to enjoy.

My night before ball and tail animation.  Sigh.  I promise to work harder next semester.  I’m hoping to work on some personal art during the break.  I haven’t really had time to do any of that since the summer.  Enjoy.