Figures

So, I've always had a bit of trouble drawing long poses because how I went about gestures was very stylized and almost symbolic. But my current professor's approach has helped me a whole lot, and now I'm able to enjoy long poses now! I've always concentrated on movement and flow, since that's key in animation, and she does as well- only in a very VERY organic way, which makes it... not easier, but more possible to build off of the gesture. However, with this new development I've realized I have a terrible problem with getting proportions right xD The first and last models are the same, but drawn about 3 weeks apart. The top one has awful proportion mishaps! But the bottom one shows my improvement- it's not perfect, but it's getting closer!

Figures

Some of my figure drawings, with notes to myself. Weyer is my current figure drawing professor, and sh'es incredible :) She learned from my biology teacher as well!

Amur Tiger Drawing

Another Bio Assignment. This time we just had to draw an animal in an environment. I chose an Amur Tiger, or Siberian Tiger. They're very powerful creatures! Apparently they're one of the biggest felids to ever exist, and the biggest species alive today. I did this in photoshop. I always have a bit of trouble doing drawings that are very nicely done with proper lighting and and such, which makes a long drawing very pleasing to look at so this was a bit of a reach for me. I am hoping to be able to work on that so I can get better at doing longer drawings!

Raccoon Behind

This was a bio assignment I did! Our assignment was to sketch out 3 frames of a typical movement of an animal. I used this video for reference- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSB69sAY1s0&noredirect=1
Raccoons are so cute!

Team animation

I did this team animation with classmate D.Hoffart. I animated the mouse.

Chew and Take

Not too proud of this one, the texture of the timing seems wrong to me... And it's not fully inbetweened :O (actually, a lot of my animations so far are not fully inbetweened xD) This was during my second semester. Anyway, we were practicing a chew and a reaction ( or "take"- a change in emotion). Its always important to show a character reacting to a situation, because it helps to give the character a personality, so I was really excited to practice a take.
Also! This character is Fred- I'm not sure if this one is Disney's or not, but he's Zed's large cousin! I remember I had a tough time drawing him!

Quadruped Walk

We were learning how to do a walk cycle with a quadruped. This one was really tough to get the hang of! This is a dog with an odd long body :) But I think he's a cutie pie.

Floursack Jump

Jump animation. This one was the one I thought was most successful for my first semester of animating. That floursack is a Disney idea, and we used this design to start us off with understanding volume :)

Modified Walk Animation

One of my first walk animations :)

This character is Zed, and I believe my professor said that Disney animators used this simple character to practice animations. (My professor was a Disney animator before they shut down all the traditional studios and got rid of the 2D animators) Anyway, he's very easy to draw and I think he was a good character to start with!