Storyboards and sketching

Two storyboards from a project I'm working on with a group of others. It's about a fisherman lost in the fog.

And some sketches of my friends bunny Angel for school sketchbook stuff.

Animation tests; Photoshop

Have been doing some small scribbles in Photoshop just for fun. I like animating in Photoshop of some reason, probably because it let's me have opacity (whoever makes flash - would you please include that in the brush options so I can see what I'm drawing? D= ). I like doodling sketchy stuff and the opacity lets me do just that. <3

Top one had a nice windy day blowing the hair...until I changed my mind. (was gonna do Hare Hare Yukai, but I just didn't feel like it after the first 3 frames.)
Bottom one looks kinda like I coughed up a rainbow, but that's because the keyframes were done in different colors and I followed up by doing the frames in between in the same colors...and never bothered to change it.

Walk with cane

Walk cycle for class.
Think the head is to bouncy for this one, should be more on level - like floating along kinda thing.
Yes I know there is no opposite arm swinging and the arm that you do see is rather kept close to the body (maybe a bit stiff) and is swinging at the same time as the leg on the same side.
That's because when I did the walk, like I was told to do, that is what actually happens. I keep kicking my umbrella along with my leg, and stuffing my hand in my pocket.

Walks were surprisingly fun to do, but next time I use myself for reference I'll use a camera that doesn't blur out 80% of the movement.

new semester

New semester with new, longer lasting projects.

I think it might be fun, I like developing things a bit more over time and not stress around only having a week or two to do everything at the same time. I'm mainly looking forward to making characters, and try doing some backgrounds. Hoping I can play around with watercolors and learn how to use them. I always loved those storyboards and concept art things which are made with scribbly pencils and watercolors.

I hope they do what they said they'd try out; longer opening time at the studio. Sounding a bit weird coming from me who you hardly ever see in there, but I simply prefer to work in silence, which never seem to happen until it's past 6 - and everyone else have gone home for dinner. I'm hoping this will get me some more time to work in piece and quiet.

So until everyone else is having dinner I'll switch between going to lessons and reading the rest of House of many ways. Love those fantasy books. Already finished Castle in the sky and Howl's moving castle, which is the first book in the series and I will probably read again after finishing House of many ways. Nothing is like using a bit of your imagination to see pictures instead of words.

RR Storyboards

Finally finished both the storyboards and the anematic practice we had. So I'm uploading a couple of my favourite panels.

I like doing storyboads, I find that and aniematics rather fun and relaxing to do. I really enjoy it.

About pencils and 3D and such

It's first now I realize after spending a day trying out Maya without wanting to chuck the pc out the window in frustration of the program not working the way my mind would like it to, I never post my 3D on my blog.

I guess I'll have to play more around with it before it ever sees the light of day on the internet.

I will give it a chance, but I am very likely to run away and hide in my sketchbook after every time I touch the program, because I know it won't replace my love for doodles, messy pages and colors. <3

Flash Lipsync

Learned some simple lip sync in flash.

I also learned that if you don't have everything on separate layers the file is not going to work properly and you have to re-do your entire animation....