Work has taken hold of me for the past few days, so I've had little time to do any kind of drawing.
I have been reading where I can and that has been excellent. I find myself watching peoples walks and poses everywhere I go now.
Below is a short film I wrote and directed last year. Far from perfect, but I'm happy with it :)
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Friday, 27 August 2010
A little here and there
I was busy with other work for most of today, so I didn't get much done for my animation dream.
A friend of mine who is also attempting to become an animator too (over in China), suggested a book to me called 'The new Drawing on the right side of the brain'. It involves looking and not labelling when viewing something, a view I've heard mentioned by spiritual teachers for an outlook on life. So I purchased it.
Another find online was this website - http://www.11secondclub.com/
It holds a monthly competition for character design. It sounds like a brilliant challenge for my first animation. A new dialogue of sound will be released in four days time.
Exciting stuff!
A friend of mine who is also attempting to become an animator too (over in China), suggested a book to me called 'The new Drawing on the right side of the brain'. It involves looking and not labelling when viewing something, a view I've heard mentioned by spiritual teachers for an outlook on life. So I purchased it.
Another find online was this website - http://www.11secondclub.com/
It holds a monthly competition for character design. It sounds like a brilliant challenge for my first animation. A new dialogue of sound will be released in four days time.
Exciting stuff!
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Life drawing lesson one
The location reminded me so much of my old art college back in Doncaster, and I was happy to see the room crowded with eager faces.
As I expected, my drawings were fairly poor to begin with, but after a few handy words from the teacher I improved a bit, and by my last drawing of the night I was quite happy with the result.
I'm going to try to make this a weekly thing.
I'm happiest with my final drawing of the evening below.
Day one
Hello there, my name is Matt, and I hope to become an animator of some kind or other.
I have enjoyed drawing from a young age, and although my skills are not that great, I hope that over the coming months I'll improve a bit, and that it'll show here.
I expect it to be insanely hard. The bits I've done so far have been, but a sense of extreme calmness and aliveness comes out when I do it.
I have a rough story for my first animation, and pretty much all my ideas are animations wanting to be made.
I did a quick test last week, animating over a couple of afternoons to ease myself into it. The software I'm using is called Toonboom studio, and although my first test is far from perfect, I'm fairly happy with it.
I'm also reading 'The Animators survival kit' by Richard Williams, which is both easy and educational to read. A brilliant book to get if you are interested in this like me.
I'm off to a life drawing class later, the first one in over six years. I'll try to post a few on here if I can.
I have enjoyed drawing from a young age, and although my skills are not that great, I hope that over the coming months I'll improve a bit, and that it'll show here.
I expect it to be insanely hard. The bits I've done so far have been, but a sense of extreme calmness and aliveness comes out when I do it.
I have a rough story for my first animation, and pretty much all my ideas are animations wanting to be made.
I did a quick test last week, animating over a couple of afternoons to ease myself into it. The software I'm using is called Toonboom studio, and although my first test is far from perfect, I'm fairly happy with it.
I'm also reading 'The Animators survival kit' by Richard Williams, which is both easy and educational to read. A brilliant book to get if you are interested in this like me.
I'm off to a life drawing class later, the first one in over six years. I'll try to post a few on here if I can.
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