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Keeping warming up my hand in the life drawing studio. This week (05.10.) the model had some fantastic dynamic poses which was lovely to practice on. I kept using different materials to draw with but the dominating material this time was markers.

We did the same with timing, aiming from 30 seconds up to 2 minutes per pose. I’ve noticed depending on how long the pose is, I use a specific drawing material. If there are quicker poses, I do those best with either charcoal or a marker, those dark, bold materials help me capture those poses the best. Where I have more time on drawing, I either use a pen or a pencil for longer poses – with those materials I have more time to be precise.

Charcoal pencil:

Marker:

Mix:

Pen:

Pencil:

Refreshed the bouncing ball animation and animated a canon ball dropping on the floor for our first assignment. I used ToonBoom Harmony for both of these.

First lesson about using TV Paint Animation (02.10.), we were taught how to use the program. Pretty straight forward things like how to make a new project, what settings are useful, where everything lays etc.

After that we were assigned our first project which is every animator’s base lesson on how to bring an animation to life by using its principles.

Here are my first tests for the bouncing ball exercise:

And some notes with useful information about the animation principles and recommended default settings for a TV Paint file:

First life drawing session (28.09.) this academic year with Vanessa Smith. We were given some tips and tricks in the beginning of the session how to make more dynamic poses when drawing the model.

“We don’t need to draw how the model looks like but how the model moves/poses.”

Vanessa Luther-Smith

We started out by writing our name over and over to see how we hold and use our drawing tools + other useful notes:

“Try to practice doodling.”

Vanessa Luther-Smith

We did quick pose session between 30 seconds and 5/6 minutes, no longer than that, to capture the movement of the model.

I used different drawing materials for experimentational purposes. So far I enjoyed using charcoal and markers to pinpoint the boldness in my drawing style.

Charcoal:

Marker:

Pencil:

Mix (pencil, charcoal and pen):

Our first assignment for week 1 (27.09.) in MA Character animation was to design a character then imagine how they all react to each other in our given scenario and verbally pitch our idea in a 1 minute presentation. We were in a group of five people and our given scenario was “the group have to compete in the Olympic games”. We each designed character and picked one each to use in the scenario.

My designs:

We each designed a character where they would compete in their own sport and decided for the story that it would be announced that all the character have to compete in one competition – a running marathon. We figured for the plot to be more interesting, the shot would start out with a POV witnessing other character racing and with uncertainty on who would win, then the POV character speeds up towards the end of the race and you can in fact see, that the cameraman character won.

Others’ designs and chosen characters:

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