Nosfurratu Cycle Test

So I've been working on an Animated short for the past 6 months or so called Nosfurratu (the vampire chihuahua). Right now I have a shot where the main characters are wilin out on a scooter and so I need to animate their hair flapping in the wind. I made this little test to see if this 8 frame cycle would work. Kinda chaotic but it gets the job done. Now all I have to do is apply it to the actual shot.

Eric Goldberg Head Turn

The eyes lead the head.

Lip Sync

Two videos! The first is just a test where the character is saying A E I O U. The second is James Earl Jones from star wars saying "What is thy bidding my master...?

Zombie Baby Walk

Happy Halloween Folks!

Lifting Fail...

Oh Shut up Already...

Working in TV Paint with an audio clip from "Cat's Don't Dance" to see how whacked out I can get Darla to look during her freak out moment. One of my first digital animations so go easy!

Briar Rose in betweens

The FINAL "doosey" of an assignment Alex gave us for Traditional Animation. In between Briar Rose from Sleeping Beauty. Yikes...

UPDATE: I noticed a frame that was off, and fixed it here... 

Jumping Fail

FX Animation

Today we learned about FX Animation. This stuff is HARD and def requires you to look at reference videos...

I did a bomb exploding.

Ariel Clean up Pencil Test

This assignment we had to clean up some very rough scratchy keys and keep the volumes consistent.

Tramp Dialogue Pencil Test

The assignment was to draw the in between poses of this dialogue scene. Sorry there's no audio. He's saying "Oh you'll wake the baby!"

TV Paint Test

Messing around in TV Paint, trying to learn the program. Its supposed to be a character getting b!tch slapped.

Darla Dimple pencil test

As animators we need to create really strong key poses when we are animating a character. This is Darla Dimple from "Cats Don't Dance" reacting to a Buzzer at the beginning of the clip. Awesome movie. The poses I've made here are good , but can probably be pushed further. Alex suggested she hit the ceiling, and there be cracks there LOL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er_VJ_MYBZU

Tradition Animation Basics with Alex Topete!

The Animation Guild - Local 839 IATSE in Burbank

So it turns out my teacher at the Animation Guild Alex Topete was a cleanup artist at Disney during the golden age of animation and he actually worked on all the classics! Click here to see his (insanely impressive) IMDB page. He worked on Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, the Lion King and even cleaned up Ursula from the Little Mermaid. Pretty far out!

Here is a pencil test of Mickey I did today in the first day of class. The famous classic Disney animator Fred Moore did the key poses, which are really strong, and I drew the in-between poses in blue.