Animation - Walk Cycle - Victorian Lady

More fun with animation! This is actually not my walk cycle exercise - but another walk I did over the winter break and never got the chance to put up on youtube.

So enjoy! My sexy lady walk cycle to come! :)

Layout - Textures - Snooty Witch

Finally a project I did for Layout that I kind of like. The idea was to create a background with a character that focuses on textures. We did three different iterations - but the one I like best is the last version. It was supposed to represent "Your Style".

This witch is a washed up actress, who's just over it...

Done in Flash and Photoshop of course.

And just for fun, my lineart:

Alice - Flash Short - work in progress

This project was due this week - and of course I didn't finish it in time! I did more however than was required and handed it in.... I'll just keep on cleaning up a frame here and there whenever I have the time and use this short for my compositing project further down the line.

Here is some more work in progress! :) You never get to appreciate the frames when the movie runs, so here are some of my favorite stills so far:

Painting - Master Copy - Black and White

So here is my Master Copy in black and white. I will be painting it all over again in color next week.

The background I chose is from the movie Tekkonkinkreet. I got both art books a while back and everything in there is stunning. The struggle was to chose only one to paint - there were just too many amazing options!

Naturally I could obsess over this for a lot longer. But I think I will leave my pickiness to the color version.

Here it is! Gouache on watercolor paper:

My rule with painting: don't get discouraged if your first layer looks like crap. So just for fun, I scanned my first layer! :)

Alice - Flash Short - concept work

So the quest continues on my small short for Digital Tools all done in Flash.This time I bit off a bit more than I can chew, and I'm pretty sure it won't be finished by next week.

I do want to finish some of it however! So my goal is to clean up several parts, and have the rest really nicely roughed out. I will try and keep working on it, even after the deadline, to have a finished short!

In the mean time here is some fun "pre-prod" work.

My already animated title page:

A still from my Alice entrance animation - a fun loop that I already cleaned up:

And finally, a very rough Alice model sheet that I kept meaning to clean up but seemingly will never have the time for:

Painting - Color Thumbnails

And back to painting! Still prep work for the Master Copy. Here are my color thumbnails!

Gouache on Watercolor paper yet again.

Firts we have 4 color comps from "UP", then "Wall-E" then some concepts for "Fantasia" and finally "Brother Bear".

Pinups - Chantal

This was a fun workout pinup I drew for a former colleague of mine, Paul. This commission depicts his lovely wife Chantal who adores staying fit!