Tuesday, March 13, 2007

A post with a bit o animation

Edit: some warm ups. First bit is to show weight. The swing was just me being silly



I know I know ..Get on to the skool stuff. Some stuff to get my mind workin today.









30 comments:

Aaron said...

hey mel, again they are lookin! dude you should totaly come down to school and teach us whats up.

Richard Oud said...

Sketches looking awesome as always Mel! I really liked the animation (altough the beginning of the flowersack lacked some weight in my opinion) nice runcycle for your character... can't wait till your short is done!

You rock.. good luck on finishing the short!

S.T. Lewis said...

Wow... another collection of great stuff, Mel! I love the arm and leg shapes on the old man.... even his arms are bell-bottomed. It's cool to see some of your animation stuff too. All really nice work, man.

Andy Conroy said...

You will never finish that animation if you keep sketchig up these awesesomes! I think there is something about 2d animation that makes ya want to go off on distraction drawings...they are always so much fun!

Dillon said...

Mel-tron 3000!! I love the animation. I choked on my poptart this morning because of you. We need to hang.

Nathan Lindsay said...

love the cowboy.

and finally some animation to see! I love when that flour sack comes back hanging on the ballon...just him (i'm assuming it was a boy) hanging there is a funny image itself.

jakolobo said...

Great animation!. There is a lot of new powerful work! Awesome as always...

Marco Antonio said...

I remember a little while ago, you said that you didn't like how CGI animators portrait humans...so I'm just curious how you would draw the humans (and mutants) of the upcoming movie TMNT.

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0703/13/tmnt27.htm
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0703/13/tmnt20.htm
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0703/13/tmnt21.htm
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0703/13/tmnt10.htm

GhettoFab said...

thanks all for the comments much appreciated!

-- Hey Marco!
I actually dont mind character designs in cg movies.Especially cartoony ones as Im more of a cartoony person than that of a realistic person. And I totally look forward to the upcoming turtles movie. Looks great to me!

Heres my two cents ( and its prolly not worth that.) Example Monster House had some good designs for me but didnt fit the "tweenage" feel that the story had. Seemed like the main kid chars were designed for a younger market. ( My opinion ) And I loved the char designs in Incredibles as well as the people designs in Open Season. The ninja turtle "turtle" designs look like they went back to the comic book which I love. the people designs that I saw in the trailers were nicely done but dont know how well they match up with the monsters or turtle designs for me. ( Again only opinion.) As for how I would design em. I only wish I were good enough to work on such a project!!

Goobeetsablog said...

great!

it was so much fun to watch these
lots of energy and character in your animations.

also- I read your interview at the Character Design Blog- thanks for mentioning my blog- that was extremely nice of you. It was a great interview- you're incredibly talented guy- keep up the good work!

St John Street said...

Loads of fun and energetic work thanks for the kind words I need to step it up like you Sir stay fresh !!!

Linton

Henry Elmo Bawden said...

Mel,

For love of the love of PAP! Nice work. Keep it up. Good luck with your school project man.

-Henry

Heather said...

It's nice to see some of your 2d animation. Although I have to agree with Andy Conroy...finishing your project will be a lot harder if you keep distracting yourself ;) Don't worry I end up doing the same thing with my projects; too many other fun things to do and not enough time for them all.

Lots of Love,
Heather

Alina Chau said...

Love your character drawings, always cool in design. And fun animation pencil test!! Gooood stuffs!!

Andy Conroy said...

There is something very matter a fact about that flour sack...

adrian said...

Love the sketches Mel.
Ahhhhh.... the ol' flour sac assignments. I don't even want people to see mine!!!

Megalaros said...

Flour sack Pitfall~!

milo said...

Amazing work as usual bro!! Keep it up! ;OP

sarah said...

Really nice drawings Mel! You have such solid character designs and great diversity :)

Adam said...

wow!!! you have been super busy lately! There is a lot of great stuff i missed out on: I love the second flour sack and caveman front run cycle, the luchador and the imaginary friend alligator looking monster! I can't wait to see your finished film!

christian said...

Wow, sir...!! Tons of amazing stuff all around. Love your characters design.
Awesome work.

Vanhoozerbot said...

Flippin fantastic man!
Your character designs are really good.

And congrats on the character design blog interview.
I am going to go read that!

Jeremy

Ryan Wood said...

Man, I'm always inspired by your posts, so much stuff to look at. Nice work, that old guys shapes are fantastic!

Richard Gaines said...

Wow, so many posts in so short a time! The flow of the pencil in these drawings moves mountains!! I know this is from a previous post, but those action sheets of that cave guy exhibit tremendous character! You can really elucidate the personality on every drawing.

rusty miller said...

wow these are really fun mel! that little mans run cycle is outstanding!

Im trying to learn a bit of PAP as well by my results havent been as succesful as yours have.

keep up the good work!

rusty

Clive said...

Busy and not browsing much for awhile, but finally dropped by and wow, what a whack of amazing art! Fantastic, Mel, better and better, top of the line, look forward to coming back for another look.

joonasjoonas said...

nice skethes, characters and animation testes tooo! The guy running around is hilarious.

Ken Chandler said...

Awesome Mel, as if I expected anything less? Never! Love the variety of characters you're able to conjure up. I can't see your animation as yet, but I'll go to the Provo Library and see if the connection will work there. Can't wait.

UrbanBarbarian said...

what a great bunch of designs! You really have a tremendous ability to create diverse characters and animation styles! Send me your art diet!!!

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