Fairy Tail Weightlift

This week in my class we had to animate our Fairy Tail Character doing a weightlift so to start off with i gathered a few reference pictures and videos.



and so from these i did a mind map and some thumbnail sketches of angles and expressions of my character

after doing this i went into flash and animated it, the end result is pretty alright, i got what needed to be done, i would change alot about it like the hands and make the boulder look more, boulderish?  also make the lines look consistent in depth.

Elemental Creature + comic convention

after deciding on my creatures look i started and finished rendering her. although i am not proficient at colouring (first time on PS/Ever) i think i did alright. its not highly detailed but it gets the job done, and i tell you what, having some knowledge of shadows really helps a character pop out. so here is a front and side view of her.

Later throughout this week i should have a background illustration done and posted, also i have my fairy tail character picking up a heavy object for you which i will post also nearer the end of this week.
in other news i am attending a comic convention as an exhibitor selling my rough comic at overload in NZ, just incase anyone wanted to come my name is inkneous. it was a challenge to create a 16 page comic in two weeks. ill post a few pages of my comic next week when i have a copy myself.

Clean-Up Flour-Sack

This is my Cleaned-Up of the second shot of the keys and a few breakdowns. i feel that after i clean up the inbetweens, i need to go over another clean-up run to focus on keeping the volume and shape correct and making sure the lines are smooth and good.

And my First shot cleaned up a bit, i quite like it, basically i looped the jumping cycle and just moved it up the mountain, i think it worked quite well and saved me some time too!

Rough flour-sack Animation

Here is the rough of the second shot of the flour-sack animation. i like how the sack moves and i can feel that there is a character there. there are a few things that need fixing and a few inbetweens that i missed but i will fix them while cleaning up. (if you have two sacks of flour what do you have?)

Elemental Creatures

Ok so today i have been creating some elemental creatures and have come up with this type, she is a creature of pure symbiotic energy, i have three developments of the characters. i quite like the first two and i am going to mix them both together to create the one i have in my head.

Just...Because.

Heres a cute character i did. just felt like it is all, dont be scared by the bottom one, that was just a silhouette concept.

Oops

Forgot a few pictures for the previous post!

Chad Kuleguy Work

Last week our group had a task: we had a client who wanted a funimation of 5-ish seconds of action-packed goodness with america and serious soda product placement. on this project i was the Rough inbetweener and the Cleanup Inbetweener, i also helped our group in bits that needed doing IE colouring, Cleaning up a few of the keys. i also came up with some ideas for clowns and was the main creator of the main female character.

Flour-Sack Ideas

For this assignment i am being tasked with creating a flour sack animation. i have come up with these ideas and done a few drawings to get used to the character and how he moves

 

i have decided to choose a fantasia style esque of multiple flour sacks.
now i have done 5 concept thumbnails to have an idea of what the scene could look like

Danger, Danger, Doctor Campbell!

Last week i decided to try to go for a different style in drawing to expand my knowledge on drawing and decided to go for a realistic/Marvel style. so i found an artist i quite like (J. Scott Campbell) and found what i think is one of his Danger Girls from his comic book and tried my hand at drawing one.