Katie build tests.

Animation tests of the character rig I've been tinkering with.

Animation done using Toon Boom Harmony

Deep

I took the audio from 11 second club march competition.
http://www.11secondclub.com/

 When I heard the audio clip, I just had to draw this out.

dbl test

I had to use Flash for symbol animation lately, and boy it was frustrating. So, to balance it out, I rigged and animated something with toon boom. There is no audio track. The lipsync is imaginary. :)

Can't Remember 03

I'm going to leave it here for now. I might clean up the body keys  if I want to use it for a demo reel but that's the extent I will work on this.

Animating this was little different than what I do at work. With this I had to be a lot more subtle and ease in and out much more than I used to.

My biggest challenge when doing this on Toon Boom is character design and rigging. It wouldn't be too bad if I plan meticulously and draw lots of body parts beforehand but I always get so eager to animate that I just skip few things that I should do when building the rig. For this particular build, if I were to revisit it, I would add separate jaw element as well as draw more front mouth shapes and hair shapes.

Can't Remember 02

Part 2 of this animation. I learned to use deformer tool in Toon Boom and I had to try it. 

I used the deformer on the pillow in the last few frames.

Rough keys in Flash CS3

Head rigged and keyed with Toon Boom Harmony.

If I were to ever end up animating the body, it might look like this..

What will your last words be?

"Don't worry... I won't die."

According to this link, those will be my last words.

It was either me doing something stupid or heroic.
I went with the latter.

You can tell this is fiction because I cannot grow beard in real life. 

Can't Remember 01

I had this audio clip around so I decided to play around with it.
The audio is from CSI I believe. It was going to be a serious piece until I added the ending.
I can't stop giggling when I look at this now. Harhar.

Cameo Lover MV Study 01

More animation practice. I will chip away at it. Maybe I can finish it this weekend.

I spent some time playing around in Toonboom as well. Most of the time was spent on building the rig.

I posed few keys with this rig then I stopped because I didn't have enough details about the movement figured out to effectively draw the body pieces out. So I went back to flash and that is what you see up top.

The movement I referenced is at 1:55 mark.

Vivi run

Simple animation I did today. I wanted to do an acting scene with lipsync but I am having trouble recording direct audio.

Valentine

hood

Been watching Harry Partridge's stuff on youtube all day. Time to animate.

Hiya!

None of the sketches on photoshop was working right so I decided to animate instead.
Adobe Flash, 3 hrs.

MV study girl part DONE

I didn't know how far I was going to take this when I started.

Cleaning up was bit tough but it really made me think about volume and arc.

When animation is in rough, it's too easy to make things smooth with moving lines, but when it's cleaned up, everything needs to be spot on. With this piece, I ran into some trouble with her right arm and took me awhile to get it passable.

Overall, it was a good learning experience. Will definitely do another short, cleaned up animation again.

Maybe with Toon Boom next time.

Now, time for sleep.

MV study girl part 2.5

Chugging away at clean up.

MV study girl part 2

MV study girl

I should be sleeping but I had to sketch this out once I saw it on a Music Video.

The rough is done. Youtube made it little choppier than it actually is.
I'll clean it up like below image bit by bit.

update: Here is a link to the said video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ1hvB_L30o&feature

Perhaps I've exaggerated the head movement too much. It distracts from the hip. which is the real focus.

Sarah Test Finished

Here is the translation:

"I don't know. One thing is for sure. When you live together, you get bored of each other."

This is where I'll leave it for now. It's not perfect by any means.

The hair looks bit too flashy and the right hand could definitely use some finessing with drawings and I wanted some swirling motion with the cup.

With this exercise I set out to accomplish two things: Testing the character rig and construct decent lip sync. The lip sync came out to be better than I expected.

Any criticism will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Sarah pose test

The blog is titled "girls and animations"
So finally, some animation.

I'll have subtitle once I finish it.
The language is in Korean.

Laughing test..

Simple Build and animation test with Toon Boom Animate Pro PLE.

The sound is off due to Youtube.

Action analysis