Animator's Almanac

Taxonomy - Animation Test with Colour

2012-01-26T01:44:00.002+00:00

Animation Test with colour:

Taxonomy - Animation Test Final

2012-01-24T14:25:00.000+00:00

Final Animation Test for Waiting Sequence (in Alpha):

Taxonomy - Test Animation 1

2012-01-23T23:18:00.000+00:00

Here's a Test Animation Scene for Taxonomy Project:

Quick Drawing - 6

2012-01-19T17:30:00.000+00:00

Quick Sketches done in Caerleon:

Quick Drawing - 5

2012-01-19T05:45:00.001+00:00

Drawings done at the Newport Bus Station:

Animal Sketches - 2

2012-01-18T05:09:00.000+00:00

Animal Sketches - 1

2012-01-12T22:00:00.001+00:00

Wine Glass - Model, Shading, Light & Render

2012-01-11T16:54:00.003+00:00

Reference for various colors in the glass:

Various models of a wine glass:

Reference of output looking forward to achieve:

Production Bible - Animatic

2012-01-08T21:33:00.000+00:00

Animatic for the Production Bible:

Production Bible - Storyboard

2012-01-07T07:28:00.013+00:00

Here's the storyboard for the Production Bible:

Production Bible - Character Designs

2012-01-02T20:46:00.004+00:00

Based on the folktale for my Production Bible - Here are the character designs

Hati : The Elephant

Mantri #1: The Crow

Mantri #2 & #3: The Wolf

Rajah Sher: The Lion

Drip, Splat, Boing - The Story

2011-12-29T16:35:00.001+00:00

The story for Drip, Splat, Boing is based on the following Indian folktale from the South of How Coconut Got Its Face:

There was a young man from Kerala, born into a fisherman’s family, did not know how to catch fish. He tried all the ways, with poles and nets, but he never caught any fish and he got poorer and hungrier. Everybody in his village laughed at him. So he decided to learn some magic. He went, to a teacher of magic and learnt how to remove his head from his body. When the beach was deserted in the evenings, when all the fishermen had returned to their villages with their daily catch,he would come to the beach and, in a secluded corner, take off his head from his trunk and dive into the water. The fish had never seen such a strange sight and they always clustered round. All the small fish entered his body through his neck. The man would then swim ashore, take the fishes out, and replace his head. He would go back to his village and show the villagers all the fish that he had caught.

He told no one his secret. The villagers who saw no poles or nets in his hut nor caught sight of him at the beach grew exceedingly curious. One day a little boy followed him to the shore. He saw him take off his head and dive into the water. The little boy darted forward and snatching the head ran away. After a few yards he found it too heavy and threw it into a bush. The man came out of the water and could not find his head. He searched all over and then, because his magic was running out, he threw himself back into the sea and became a fish.The little boy brought all the villagers to show them the miracle of the head. But when they came to the bush at the side of sea, they found that it had already grown into a tall and slender palm with nuts on it. Each nut had the man’s face on it. And thus the coconut tree was created.

Image of Coconut depicting its face:

The story and the technique to be used for my animation exercise, is inspired from one of the animation videos I saw during the screening in Bristol Animated Encounters..

Drip, Splat, Boing - Cutout Animation

2011-12-28T15:56:00.003+00:00

With my earlier post about the project of Drip, Splat, Boing - I've finally decided to use Cutout animation as a technique. This is solely going to be an experimental project before I choose 3D as my prefered style of animation from the next semester.

Cutout Animation:

Cutout animation is a technique for producing animation using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper,fabric,stiff paper,cardboard and even photographs.

Examples of cutout animations:

Life Drawing - 6

2011-12-23T21:10:00.000+00:00

Here's another set of quick 30 sec sketches (on a pastel shaded background):

Life Drawing - 5

2011-12-20T23:59:00.006+00:00

With these recent uploads in Life Drawings
(Post 3: http://animatoralmanac.blogspot.com/2011/12/life-drawing-3.html
Post 4: http://animatoralmanac.blogspot.com/2011/12/life-drawing-4.html )

My Life Drawing has improved quite a lot, with Charcoal & Dry Chalk Pasterls being my most comfortable medium of expression.

Here's another set of drawings done:

Life Drawing - 4

2011-12-19T20:59:00.002+00:00

Life Drawing - 3

2011-12-13T22:25:00.002+00:00

Walk Cycle Test - 2D

2011-12-10T02:51:00.004+00:00

Here's my 1st Walk Cycle Test:

Quick Drawing - 4

2011-12-08T11:51:00.012+00:00

Here's a set of Quick Drawings I did:

Layouts

2011-11-25T23:07:00.025+00:00

Layouts relates to making & designing the various characters & the backgrounds that are later to be passed to the artists along the animation & background departments.

The layout artists design the model sheets of characters along with various poses & actions.

Example of a Model Sheet:

The layout artists also design the various backgrounds.

It is always to be understood that, layout is not a phase of production that generates the finished art. The value of a good layout is not in its rendering but in how easily can it be reproduced by the artists & how each layout fits in the final animated film. - H&B Layout Notes

Good sense of planning & design are one of the important abilities that a good layout artist should possess.

Layout defines the spatial relationships between the various objects in a scene, including its location & its size.

Keys, Extremes, In Betweens

2011-11-23T17:38:00.000+00:00

Keys: They are the major story telling drawings.
NOTE: While animating, figure out the keys first & place/draw them.

Extremes: As defined, earlier (http://animatoralmanac.blogspot.com/2011/11/timing-spacing.html), it is the position where-ever there is a change of direction or when we start/end an action.

Keys can be Extremes. Extremes cannot be Keys.

NOTE: After figuring out Keys, place/draw Extremes followed by In Betweens.

Quick Drawing - 3

2011-11-20T21:20:00.000+00:00

Another Page Of Quick Human Anatomy Drawing:

Life Drawing - 2

2011-11-20T01:06:00.001+00:00

Quick Drawing - 2

2011-11-19T23:45:00.007+00:00

Here's another set of Quick Human Anatomy Drawings:

Quick Drawing - 1

2011-11-17T00:08:00.008+00:00

Here's a Page of Quick Human Anatomy Drawing: