Drawing For Animation

Frederick Villumsen (www.noerlum.com/tg-2010.html) and Henrik Soenniksen (www.henrik-soenniksen.blogspot.com) taught and supervised us on the assignment of creating a scene with Stitch trying to get a fruit hanging from a tree. We planned everything ahead and learned how to structure our workflow. In my story, Stitch builds up a sand hill to reach the fruit. Here are some sketches of my storytelling key drawings.

And this is my First Animation Key Pass: This is not the final timing, it is just a try to check the Storytelling Keys and the Keys inbetween those. There are no inbetweens or breakdowns yet, we are still planning and redoing some poses.

  

This is the Second version:

And this is the final version with the 2nd Animation Pass. I struggled to connect the flow during some of the animation and I will have to touch up some drawings so that they are on model.

We also had animation croquis every day (good exercise), which was sketching a frame from the Lilo&Stitch movie and then moving on to the next one. Each sketch is 30-60 seconds, here is an example of the part where Stitch takes the bottle from Lilo and throws it away:

The Flour Sack

 

This is the flour sack we did in 4 1/2 days and since Mike allowed us to use our creativity for everything we could create different endings. Unfortunately I forgot the title. My flour sack is very plump that's why its name is Fatboy :-) I would have liked to add more inbetweens on the slow ins and slow outs and especially at the ending part on the hand.

Hitting A Table

We had 3 characters to choose from for animating this exercise: Mc Draw the horse, Frix the little boy and Mildew Wolf from It's the wolf. I chose to do the wolf.

There are some inbetweens missing on the staggering to make it look as he is vibrating a little bit.

Head Turn

We made this based on a cute Squirrel from a Model Sheet of the Preston Blair Animation Book. In my version it is a chipmunk and his subtle reaction after turning his head is hiding shyly behind his walnut.

I should have changed some things: when the chipmunk turns his body does not stay in the same spot, it looks like he is shuffling. I also should have drawn the walnut on another layer, on another sheet of paper when it gets thrown in the air, while the chipmunk is trying to catch it hastily, therefore I could then change the timing of these separately and make f.ex. the chipmunk grab faster while the walnut spins slowlier.