Based on an assignment provided by the book Creating Characters with Personality by Tom Bancroft and Glen Keane. The book provides a film synopsis for a film based in western times in 1815 with a Indiana Jones feel. From left to right the characters are: Polly's mother (a beautician), Polly, Ruthie (a terrier dog) and Dillon, the main character of the story. The group image was done in a weekend. I chose to cel shade the character to give it a more animated appeal to what the "film" could have possibly looked like.
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This was my first time using ToonBoom with little knowledge of what I was really trying to do. But I was pretty happy with it overall. It was only supposed to be a 10-12 second clip. Done a year ago. This was my first time completing something for a classical animation project. I was pretty happy with how it came out. It was only supposed to be a 10-12 second clip studying the basic animation of character movement through the flour sack.. Done a year ago. Similar to the profile view run cycle, the 5 key frames are what I determined as the best frames to illustrate the run cycle. They include, just before contact with the ground, full contact, the leap, both feet off the ground and contact again!
This quick cycle is just 5 key frames from what I thought were the most important frames in a run cycle. The colours (although difficult to see changing) represent which muscles are relaxed and engaged during each key frame of the run. The frames include the character's reaching the ground with the front foot, full contact, jump, two feet off the ground, and contact with the ground, respectively.
I continued practicing more of Daumier and Kollwitz's styles and feel satisfied with my recent pieces, which were completed with the help of a live model.
- The first is in the style of Daumier, done with a ball point pen. By changing medium I found myself looking to get used to the feel of the pen in order to get a more accurate scale of the model's proportions. - The last three were all done in conte and were in the style of Kollwitz. I did a few 2 minute gestures, which I found myself getting the proportions correct in the fourth pose, which I am really happy with. The final one was a 30 minute study with direct light sources in order to get a higher contrast for the model. Here a few practice studies of Kollwitz and Daumier styles, respectively. The Kollwitz study was done in China Marker and the goal was to create strong contrast in shapes to create the overall image. Daumier was done in coloured crayon and was done by repeatedly drawing lines to fine the correct form for the gesture and model.
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James CunninghamArtist and animator. Archives
March 2017
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