Ahab!

For Larison's class - from a script for a comics studio in London. I can't find the name of the studio, though. rrrg. if you know, please tell me! (if you can recognise anything my my sucky art.) <3 br="br">
Sooooo.... trying something a bit different, in terms of character design at least. the character designs are heavily inspired by 50s animation. (Amid Amidi's book "Cartoon Modern" is AAAAWESOOOOME) the backgrounds, however..... well, one thing at a time. :)




Thumbnails:


Tight Roughs:

More comics I didn't write!

from a script of issue "Last Man on Earth"; AKA "Y." this script is for Y #27 "Ring of Truth Chapter One."

Thumbnails:






Tight roughs of pages 11-16:

STATIC SHOCK!

Thought I'd show a bit of process from my visual storytelling class.

Start with a script and one pass of thumbnails (2"x3"):
get some critique from classmates; do a second pass of thumbnails:
and then go on to the tight roughs (3"x4.5"):
KIRBY DOTS.

oh and this is a script for the character Static Shock. I've never read those comics and only saw like half an episode in high school. Larison said to redesign all the characters, so that was pretty easy for me. :) hm, now that I've actually looked him up, he looks pretty awesome... might have to pick up one of those comics....

some characters:

5 minute 5 line

some selections from a homework assignment of Dove's- 100 pages, one drawing each, 5 minutes, 5 lines. these are the favorites- out of 100, you can see how many drawings it can take to get just a few good ones. :)

all are drawn from life in ballpoint on printer paper.

the final steps

final steps assignment for debra's animation 2 class... turned out good. I can't wait to get into some real acting animation though- hopefully I'll have time to this summer. i have... IDEAS. mwahahaha.

Magic eggs

so now comes the time when i make an attempt at recounting all the stuff that came out of last week, which was finals, which means there was a lot of stuff. *deep breath* ok! first up, my final from Dove's class, three pages of a comic story. this is the first 3 pages of a 7-page script written by me- hopefully I'll finish it someday!

first up, here's the roughs:


and now, the final inks! this was the first time I'd done digital lettering, so that was an adventure; had some trouble with the lack of fonts on SCAD computers; so i'll have to re-do the text and bubbles later, but this is ok for now. peace out....

stepping out with my honey...

final project for animation 2 (thus far). :)

Lyle Roughs

haven't got much (technically any) time to post stuff, but here's some tight roughs from Lyle's class:



(detail of the old guy)

MARCH MARCHES IN

and I've been doing a ton of crap for class. been unusually cold for savannah lately... snow up in Macon. crazy. also, if anyone needs someone who can do graphic design/portraits/storyboards/comics/painting/flash animation, please let me know, because Emerson marketing dept. isn't allowed to take on Temps for the time being. *slightly desperate pleading*. here's my email: LDRasmussen@aol.com

SO anyway we're well into the finals now, but I'm posting more than just that smut. first up here's the finishing touches on the "case of murder" piece...


ha. fooled you. nope, this is just the color layer (watercolor) of the image-- in the olden days, this would've been painted on bluelines of the ink, then the ink would be photocopied onto celluloid and laid over top. but of course nowadays that's all done with digital magic-ness.

turned out pretty nice- of course it didn't line up correctly, but I was able to finagle it into looking halfway-decent. and for fun, here's a watercolor of ol' Cap we did for a class exercise. Matt chastised me later for giving him wrong color gloves and chest star. whatever, he's currently dead anyways. ^_____^

(till Marvel revives him. you KNOW they will.)

turn around, turn around

eeeeh. assignment for animation 2... been working on this for a week or so, this is actually the 3rd go-over. it looks ok for now- the spine shimmies a bit, and something's funky with the drag on the arm 2nd step. got some good advice from Debra, Troy and Jacques, but it needs more tweaking.

PICK A SCENE...

yeah, another infamous Norris project: pick a scene!
a vampire with the staked body of her lover and a mob coming to get her too?
a teenage couple in a car, doing... whatever outside of one of their houses, and that person's parents looking into the car?
or two detectives standing over a murdered corpse in a city as a crowd starts to gather?

yeah, i picked the last one. made the time period the 40s, because I can. someone else did this scene in the Elizabethan era and some woman got stabbed with a rapier and had a note pinned through it. deliciously creepy. :) anyway, this is the pencils; inks are due next monday.

here it is without the blueline if you'd like to see it that way:

Drawing for Seq. Madness

These are projects from Lyle’s class, the best up to midterm! I’ll put them in order.

Figures on a horizon line- these are all out of my head, with some help from Andrew Loomis. Some foreshortening problems but it's still ok.


Next are some generic faces- we had to do 12 for the project but these two are the best I think. Based on other students that I did quick sketches of in sketch club :)


After that we had to do 12 different facial expressions of the same character, with only a couple photo references. Here’s the two photos I used (my friend sarah):


And here’s all the expressions. woot woot :) I do like these.

pick a story!

This is from Dove’s class a couple weeks ago, one of the classic assignments: pick story elements and combine them into a spread. I picked: rodeo clowns, horse and buggy, ambulance and Savannah, GA. evidently we were supposed to ink this; I missed the memo. But I still like it.

overly emotional silly putty

the first big project for my animation 2 class :)

actiony handy hands

some action analysis homework- the better pieces of it, anyway.

(holly wasn't an assignment, no.) ^___^ Pentel brush pen is wonderful, great for line weight and drybrush.

The Secret Garden- FINAL

HAH! it loaded.

The End.

The last post for class! well, about the secret garden. i've wanted to animate this book for a loooong time, and since now was a chance that i actually could i jumped at the opportunity. i tried to choose a scene that would have a fair amount of action and movement, as well as a bit of emotion, so that i could try a range of things to animate.

i did finish the project, i finished everything i wanted to, but if i had a bit if extra time, there are several things i'd like to smooth out. in many of the scenes the animation is almost more of an animatic. i left the less important scenes as just keyframes, but only because i knew at my speed and with my perfectionist tendencies i would never get them finished, so instead i concentrated on fully animating the most important acting scenes.

once i can get the file compressed down, i'll be able to upload it here....

have a great summer, everyone! :)

lipsynch

asand now, ladies and gentlemen, a simple lipsync animation brought to you by grover, swap symbols and my little brother.

rope jumping

the second of the rotoscoping projects. got the original video off of youtube, since there were no little girls who are good at jumping rope handy. :P hm... well, perhaps i COULD animate someone jumping rope by hand... or, i could just be creative with the opening pan shot... >_>

TUTUMAN

my rotoscoped walk cycle of that really old and glitchy walk cycle that isn't correct and when clocked to 30 fps goes reeeaaally fast. starring tutu-man.