Animation Yo!

Hello everyone! I have neglected my blog once more!

Lots of work but not on many projects... They've all seem to be lengthy assignments so far for school, and mainly video projects. I've been holding off on uploading them to vimeo (first off, I had to make a vimeo) because once a project is completed and you've gotten feedback, there's almost always a chance to make revisions...

Meaning: it's never done!

So...

I've got to get out the that habit of not showing my work because, in theory, it's never going to be done. So without any further adieu, here are a couple projects from my concept and traditional animation class.....

(Also, forgive me, I'll have to put my walks on a cycle later on...Hopefully this loops?)

Exaggerated:

Quadruped Exaggerated Walk Dog from Alli Norman on Vimeo.


"Realistic" (but still kind of exaggerated):

Quadruped Walk Dog from Alli Norman on Vimeo.

A lil' bit of digi-painting!

My school work has been my main focus so very little personal stuff is made!

I've been making my storyboards for the same dolphin and monkey story, working on a pantomime/primitive theatre (same idea) project for my animation classes and doing some random elective homework (I will eventually get some of that animation up on here as soon as I get to it, along with the boards...might as well show that I'm doing something)! That's been my life so far, back in the swing of things and you know what? I really like it. It's kickin' my butt though, but in a very good way. 

Anyways, enough of my life story... This is something I did tonight, at 2:00 am waiting for a computer in the notorious 24 hr. labs at school. Whats the use of giving computers that are open at all times, when they aren't open when you need 'em? Anywho, it's the product of my wait and is a little janky but it was fun. Experimenting, yaaaaaaaaay!

Must have saved a weird file of it, it had some cool shadows going behind her head and chair from the light... Maybe I'll post another one later, ha but then I'll feel obligated to fix it...

As always, I'll try to get some more stuff up here later with cool things. Enjoy!

Monkeys and Dolphins, Oh My!

Gonna figure out whether or not I should get a vimeo account, to post videos from on here, I have some animation that is looking much better than last years.

 But! Pics or it didn't happen! So I have to get to that... Also, I've been doing a lot of drawings of monkeys and dolphins still for my concept class.  So I'll give a taste of that then!

Boarding is hard.

So this is just a really rough sequence of the dolphin rescuing the monkey 

(it's underwater, in later boards I hope to put some indication of that and tone, 

I started out putting tone on all of them, and then what do ya know, it's 3am.)

 (camera change)

Here's just an exchange between the monkey and dolphin, 

once the dolphin realizes that he's not human.

Don't you just hate that.

But yeah, here's something I'm working on to improve, my visual storytelling.

I'll give updates later on how these turn out, 

and hopefully put some animation up on here, along with other projects!

Thanks!

An After Dark Doodle

Well. It just kinda happened. I didn't have an overwhelming load so I just went with it.

and you know what, it was fun!

It's not really 'finished' value wise, (and other parts, like that stomach...) but it was a fun study and something that took me out of the all day grind. Putting down shapes and going with thing's I've learned about light and color. Nothing crazy, it just went intuitively.

Update On Concept!

Well, I gave a little preview of the character sheet I was workin on, Adellus the dolphin and Maimou the monkey. This is for my school project and its just got a few tweaks from my last post. I'll include the storytelling image that went with it from the thumbs and process too!

 Final character sheetski, cleaning things up. Thumbs for the images below on the side.

Ended up kind of morphing those thumbnails into what you see below...

Here's the final I ended up turning in after critique...

Focusing on the characters and then making the background secondary (kinda)

 The second revision I made, it lost a lot from the first

I ended up going back a few steps.

It happens. Never settle!

And here's the first image I turned in, way too much happening!

I went 'overboard' (hehehe)

AWWWWWH Sketchy Sketch.

Well, here we go! I edited the scanning images that I took the other day, we had a light day so I should post. Alright, well they basically were all quick gestures besides a few of the more developed portraits which you can probably pick out...

But here's my summer sketchbook and more updates on the way! Enjoy :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, all I have to say is the scanner blew some of these colors

 and I use thin paper so some are a little crappy. I love colerase! 

So little Blog Love!

This blog has been so neglected it is crazy. Alright, well working on our third week of school! Absolutely loving classes, fan-girling about CA has made me so much happier this semester. 

If anyone kept track of my "promise" I made to post summer sketch stuff, I am real sorry for lying to you! But I have (almost) everything scanned, and I got this weekend to make the images nice. 

Love Friday's for the pretend down-time they give me. Until Then! Here's an awkwardly made PDF I did for my concept class, I need to redo parts so update on that soon --if I had a dollar for how many times I've said that....

Here it is!