SFX inbetweens

so i tried my hand at a few SFX inbetween animations and i think they are alright for a first go at them. turns out that they are pretty fun to do but can be a bit tedious aswell.

 the flames where a bit of a pain and im still not really happy with it, to me it looks a bit stagnant like its not moving up enough. i think it is because i have squashed it but not stretched it enough.my advice would be to look at a whole heap of  references of flames and how they move with the air around them

 i like this, i get a drawn feel from this. like its that music video from the eighties where that girl gets sucked into a comic.there are points in the cloud where it goes too fast. next time i would work on my timing of them and make sure that the cloud eases correctly.

the worst mind-numbing experience ever. the reason its flashing is because of the varied line-thickness. this was a good test to work on my line-art and see what i need to improve.

probably one of my better ones, again, i need to focus more on getting the line thickness correct to the keys. i think i got the timing correct on it.

and my favorite one, i like this one, i left the last frame half rain because i felt like it gave the lightning more of an impact

Elemental Creature Landscape

sorry it has been a while, been caught up in work and such, but, i give you precious's a lovely gift of my elemental creature in her natural landscape :P

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.