Some more doodles

Trying to stay a bit more consistent with posts, so here's a few things I've doodles in the last week or so. Nothing spectacular but hey I had fun with em.

A little movement

Wee, almost another month down without a post. I HAVE been doing things... just been lazy with posting I guess. I'll probably try to put up a more as the days/week goes on, perhaps some figure drawings or more walk cycles or something.

Been reading through the Animator's Survival Kit again, and decided I should be doing at least one walk cycle/animation a day; figure it's good practice and if I'm doing it alot then I'll actually improve. So yep did a cycle yesterday and today. Also "finished" a stationary breathing cycle (I guess that's what it would be?) on a "sprite" I did in Flash (no idea if it's technically a sprite that way, but hey).

Fun trying to come up with unique walks... I apologize for the tearing on both of these, for some reason flash was showing a bunch of vector points when I had the color count a bit higher (lowered them to 4 colors each and it got rid of them, left the tearing though).

And this is the sprite I was workin on. For some reason I've had a tendency to draw variations of whales when I'm doodling; first one was a Whalespider, which I've yet to animate for some reason (probably because of 8 legs) and this one is an armored Land Whale. Still things I'd like to add, but this was a really fun experiment in using flash.

Some doodles and some youtube things

Hello, I'm back again with a few more doodles... I've yet to animate anything new (I started something but yeaaa, no idea if it'll actually become anything) but I have been drawing a lot more in flash. I'm starting to get more of a feel for the brush tool and drawing in it again... amazing what stepping away from drawing on the computer for a bit can do.

Been getting really frustrated with my drawing abilities lately... so I'm trying to find more of a solid style I enjoy and feel I could animate more easily in. I've also been trying to look at artists whom I would sort of like to draw like (which is never a bad thing to do); was thinking about Joshuathejames' work while I was drawing the fro guy (love his stuff).

And here's a link to my (re-edited) demo reel on youtube and a link to my youtube page for some more animation stuffs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjYn1eOVdHo

http://www.youtube.com/jemanjiman

Slightly older things and one recent

Completely forgot that I had scanned these in; most of these are a couple weeks old at this point (at least one--the guy with the curvy arms pointing with one hand--is probably closer to 4 or 5 months old) but I like something in each of them at least a little bit. 

All doodles really; since I suck at more finished drawings I was attempting some more finished things here and there.. probably not all that successful but hey baby steps right? hehe The last drawing was done in flash... haven't used the program for a while and after finally trying Castle Crashers (which was alot of fun) last week, I'd been itching to use flash again. I think he came out alright.. good practice anyway. Didn't animate the guy, though I'll probably take a stab at another character soonish... maybe something a bit more along the lines of a game sprite.

To get things started...

Hello everyone, how're things? I don't have a whole lot of things to show at the moment (at least from any larger work that I'm doing right now) but I figure that sketches are a good way to start off.  I'm hoping this will be a way to benchmark my progress within my work(as well as encourage me to keep doing things). Also I'm open to any and all feedback on my work; happy just to meet people too! 

These sketches are from semi recently (Monday  the 30th I think)  and they are of my friends in the animation department lounging around in the couch area outside of the lab. The first is more of a warm up page, though none of them are particularly good. Fun practice though; hopefully doing this m0re often will help with my line quality and confidence.