Tuesday, May 30, 2006

First go at 2d animation

Dont let that title make you think its anything fancy. Just did a jump from animators toolkit. ( I've done simple flash animations, but no real pencil animating ever..) Wanted to see if I could do it. Always been afraid to animate with a pencil and hope to get rid of the anxiety I get from thinkin about it. Gotta start somewhere... Took about 25-30 mins. Didnt really focus on keepin proportions. Figure I will try to make it a habit to do some small pencil animations as often as I can. Here it is .. LINK
thanks for lookin in advance.

Edit: Dookie from werk






Edit: Stormtrooper fun.



--Peece--

17 comments:

Hans said...

Damn, I really miss animating. I haven't animated anything since I started doing vis dev. What did you do the linetest with? I use to shoot it on the good ol' Amiga with Take2.

Hans

Unknown said...

Hey Hans,
I used my light table, scanned em in with my crappy scanner and put it in to after effects. I know there is an easier way. Gonna try to learn monkey jam next time I try. Thanks aload for lookin at it

milo said...

Awesome work! 30 mins that's all? Your fast. Post more when you get a chance!

Pat Pakula said...

great stuff!! i'm throwing away my pencils

Patrick said...

Star Wars characters! YES!!! Bring on some more Mel! I don't know much about animation these days, did a lot of stop motion animation as a teenager (using Star Wars figures of course!) but your clip looked good to me! Rock on man!!!

~DdK~ said...

hey, thx f'r visiting, come again.
y'r stuff is pretty damn solid- sweet style.

Kevin Keele said...

Sweet! Nice little animation, Mel, and the stormtrooper kicks!

Dan Segarra said...

Umm... why on earth aren't you contributing some of this goodness to the AM thread!?? What's the dilly-o... I feel cheated. ;P

Shawn Escott said...

wonderful faces! I like the stormtrooper too.

El leo said...

great job, and thanks for the nice comments... good jump, it feel so well the bump at landing, the deformations helps so well to make the movement easy to read.

i'm sure you alredy have the classics guides for animation that are everywhere, it has been helpful for me...
btw, i post a new entry in my blog, you are invited.. :)

Unknown said...

THese are beautiful!! Love the classic reto touch in the drawings!!

Dan Elder said...

I have no clue how you draw like that with a pencil amazing stuff dude

milo said...

I wish my dookie sketches looked like that! Those are amazing as usual. You make me sick!! :O)

Teemu Jäppinen said...

Cool! Nice movement in the animation!

Ken said...

WOW! these drawings are amazing. very cool rendering. Animation is cool too, youve inspired me to go back to my lightbox :D

Ken

Lydia Sanchez said...

Agh! I see your blog and it's fantastic **_*. This last potraits are great :-D . See us

Martin Wittig said...

Mel--Such great work my friend! Really beautiful stuff:)