7/13/16 Homework

165 Students:
The next step of the walk cycle is to stop. Note the 3 middle drawings the body is the same only the head has turned. Use the same technique used for the walk cycle drawings, trace the body, only change the head.

166 Students:
Bring your watercolor pencils, brush pen and water color sketchbook to class on Thursday. I will demonstrate and assign a homework project to be done with the water color pencils.

Walk Cycles

165 Students:
Tonight please work on your character page, follow the guidelines demonstrated in class. Use the character page below to help with the positioning of the figure. Please keep in blue/red pencil, be ready to show it to me in class, if it looks good you can ink and create your character spin. 

Once you are done with the character page you can begin working on the walk cycle. To begin, you are only drawing 4 poses Contact, Down, Pass, Up (See previous post for reading assignment).

Fall 2016

7/11/16 Homework

165 Students:
Get ready for the next animation project... you will be creating a character that will be you or a human like character that walks on two legs.

1. In your sketchbook, using your blue/red pencil draw at least 12 variations on a theme, like the example shown below. Pencil only NO PEN!

 2. Pick one variation of that character and re-draw it in 6 different  styles. In the end, pick one of those drawing styles, it will be the character you draw  

3. The final drawing will be used to create a character page. You can start the character page after I have seen your design. We will talk more about the character page on Tuesday.

Below is a comparison of the same body 

posing with two different skins.

If you would like to get ahead a little you can read about the walk cycle in the Richard Williams text book. Read 107-108, 122, 136, 151-153, 163.

7/7/16 Homework

165 Students:

 In your sketchbook, using red/blue pencil and ink draw yourself full body as a UPA Style character. 

166 Students:
Time to focus on your backgrounds, on monday be ready to show some rough sketches.

7/6/16 Homework

165 Students:
1. Please ink your backgrounds
2. Place a clean sheet of paper over your inked background and using your red pencil, draw your sack in the key poses that it needs for the animation.

Tomorrow in class, please scan your backgrounds and color in Illustrator. Show me your sack drawings if they look good you can scan and ink them also, then begin assembling the Sack animation video.

166 Students:

1. On Thursday we will look at your character spins.

2. We will also revisit your storyboard animatics.

Both 165 & 166:
To learn more about Maurice Noble here is a great story about his work. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-85-noble-effort/

7/5/16 Homework

165 Students:
1. Tomorrow when you come into class, have in mind one or two options for the environment that you place the sack into. It should relate to the design you used for your sack character.
2. In your sketchbook, using your red pencil,  design a studio logo that represents you. In class you will ink, color and add it to your animation. 
3. Use a combination of characters and text.. 

Examples below:

166 Students:

1. On Friday we will look at your character spins.

2. We will also revisit your storyboard animatics.