The Treacle Well

More Gesture

2008-11-17T07:28:00.003-10:00

I think it's time I start concentrating on faces again, no?

Drawings:

11 second club animation

2008-10-31T16:37:00.006-10:00

Ughhhhh having trouble capturing with the lunch box... multiple attempts failed! Gonna go home and use my crappy scanner after all.

TBC!

EDIT: So I've found that the lunch box is pretty much a hit or miss thing when capturing onto a computer. :( It's awesome for previewing, but unless you can afford to sit there for an hour or so repeatedly hitting buttons, you may as well just scan everything and compile it manually. So that's what I did, boohoo:

Quicktime Link

sketches

2008-10-06T01:20:00.001-10:00

Also, sketches:

Each time I look over my life drawings I feel feel a bit disappointed. :\ I really need to do more life drawing! I know I haven't stacked up nearly enough life drawing hours! I think I'll start attending Ka-Ning's sessions during my breaks soon...

11 second club

2008-10-06T01:07:00.004-10:00

My favorite 11 second club Sept. entries:

http://www.11secondclub.com/competitions/september08/entry/FWFBTm/

I love how the male's left eyebrow is always quirked up, and the little exhale he does as he looks at his cup.

My favorite IDEA from the Sept. entries has to be this one, though:

http://www.11secondclub.com/competitions/september08/entry/00c4hV/

But the synching absolutely kills me! I would have loved to seen this finished and polished up.

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Aaaaas for my own preparations for the October theme, I have this to show:

It actually took me forever to do because I kept throwing out ideas. :( I think I tend to over-think things, and I start to really gum up my own process, so... I only have about a frame or two of the keys on animation paper down right now, but I will get this done, damnit! >:O I just have to... turn of my brain--or something--to speed up the process...

what's in the box? 2

2008-09-29T08:28:00.005-10:00

Nearly forgot to put this up:

What's In The Box

what's in the box?

2008-09-17T05:08:00.005-10:00

So I've been trying all night to get my old scanner (which has a flat lay area, unlike my shiny, new printer/scanner/all-in-one, which dips into the A4 size scanning glass) to work on Vista. IT WAS FOR NAUGHT. D:

Looks like I'll be bustin' out the old computer and hooking the scanner up to that instead. If that doesn't work out well, I guess I'll start harassing the peeps at the ICS building if I can't find a good scanning area in the ART building, lol...

passing the ball... the final?! plus the composition sketches

2008-09-14T19:08:00.003-10:00

Right here!

Ending's a bit smoother... But the longer I work on this the more imperfection I see. @_@

Aaaand composition sketches:

ball passing animation

2008-09-07T22:04:00.006-10:00

Uploaded here!

I MUST LEARN TO ANIMATE FASTER D:

It's still pretty choppy... >_< I tried using key points and then adding the in-betweens this time, rather than plowing straight through, but GAH this method's hard! Rolling between two keys and drawing out the in-betweens is really new to me... let's hope I get the hang of this soon... or at least start drawing faster :< Otherwise I'll die before the semester's out, hahaha~ X3

life drawing sketches

2008-09-07T21:56:00.002-10:00

We had a Noh performer model for us :>

It's been a really long time since I've done life drawing *-* Ah, so rusty! I didn't know how to approach the figure at all.

And seeing how good everyone else in the class is felt a little worrying @_@; Well, here's to improving over the semester, right? ^^;

(The above image for this one wasn't a pose. Our model started practicing on his flute during break, so I drew him, lol.)

jumping at the ball

2008-09-02T10:49:00.012-10:00

So we've been assigned to animate a figure catching and passing a ball, while expressing character.

Here is a very short clip of part of animation.

I'm not too happy with how it's looking and filling up the sheet, so it's likely I'll be starting over from scratch... ugh. >_>

Now off to attempt to finish my 3D projects! Wish me luck! >.<

ETA: Um... I have no idea why the "read more" link below is appearing when I didn't put in the script for it. Please ignore it and don't bother clicking on it, as there is nothing more to read. o_o