Beak Sync

Newest animation, the beak sync. Clip is from Will Ferrel's cameo in Wedding Crashers.

Muzzle Sync

The product of reading week, my muzzle sync animation. Once again the dialogue is from Dogma, this time from Jason Lee. Tried something new with this one, no light table use at all. Still used the disc and pegbar of course, but all done with flipping. I think it turned out pretty well, so I think I'll keep doing it that way for the time being. 

Human Sync

 

Here's the latest animation assignment, the human sync. The line is from the movie Dogma, original character design. Pretty happy with it, considering I started from scratch two weeks into the assignment.

And if history repeats itself, Ben Affleck has two days to live.

Mouth Sync

First assignment back after Christmas break, the mouth sync. Very fun to do, mainly because I got most of it done early and it gave me time to add the extra stuff like the lip cuts/stitching and the video/sound at the end.

And I have to mention that it was done and handed in a full two days before Ledger died. An eerie kind of tribute, I guess.

Walk & Run

Here's my newest animation, the walk & run. It took roughly four weeks, and hopefully either have a sense of humour and you like it, or you're deeply religious and it offends you. I'm happy either way.

Women

As every male artist knows, the hardest thing is to draw women, especially their faces. That is without making them look at least somewhat man-ish. So my goal for this year is to get a whole lot better at not just drawing realistic women, but being able to do character designs of them.

So far I'm just drawing celebrities and models from reference, and trying to figure out what makes their facial structure different. After I do maybe between 50-100 of those and can knock them out in 5-10 minutes no problem I'll be moving on to some caricatures. Depending on how that goes I'll do a bunch and move on to completely original character designs of women.

That being said, here's the first batch of attempts. Most are the Transformers chick Megan Fox, with a couple of Adriana Lima (aka some crazy skinny super model), and one of Aeon Flux herself, Charlize Theron.

Weight Lift & Toss

Well here's my latest animation, the weight lift and toss. I was very happy with the lift(s), but not so much the toss. The timing kept screwing me up, and trying to get the body bag to look like it was slowed down (when it hit the railing before it fell) looks now like it didn't work.

The other tough part of this was the timeframe. Only 2 weeks for this, at the same time several other large projects were due. Couple that with 26 hours at work shifts in the Friday, Staurday and Sunday before the due date meant there was very little sleep this past week. And of course the best part, hearing everyone else in the course complain about the time restraints, while they don't have a job! Try losing 25-30 hours out of your homework time every week and see how you do then whiners! 

If you can't tell, its supposed to be a nervous mofia temp throwing a body bag off a bridge.