Those are still WIP.
It's been a while since I've made
this post, here's what I've got so far. Obviously I'm working slower than ever before because of my job. But it's been a lot of fun to think about all of obstacles that I'm having on those characters. I've plotted out some of rough sketches for about 15 seconds sequence for them. then I pre-rigged duck character and made him a move, just to see how he could be moving. Then, some issues on his legs has popped up. Because of design issue, he got such a short leg and it's been aligned in the center of the body, which is not right from anatomical standpoint. Maybe it looks okay on the picture, but those placement of the legs can give the audience some weirdness when he's on the move. So I have to either change his design or animate him like snappy way so that audience won't notice. I'm still thinking about this issue.
Katie, the girl character. I think she got some cuteness but it's not quite there yet. So I've gotta work on that, too.
Rigging part is not that hard for me since that's exactly what I'm doing everyday at work. I've got a lot of techniques like matrix calculations since I'm out of school. so my speed for working on rigging had been improved. But still, making something able to work for telling a story is not easy. It's not easy. I tend to complain on bad management of bad director. they say go to left at first, and all of sudden they start saying go to right. but yea, it's not easy.
P.S. I hope I could have more time to doodle around. I've bought some nice artbooks recently and getting inspired everyday.
and I'm still working slowly. Sorry for lack of post, I actually got some messy doodles to share with but I'm lazy enough not to set my scanner up here and do some settings of my newest friend Vista. I rather go to bed or go online and play counter strike (and get pwned!) Let's hope more to come soon.
So, my friend Veerapatra Jinanavin (a.k.a. Tun or keko) just finished his summer internship at Pixar Animation Studios, and updated his website with new reel. woohoo! I think his luxo's idea turned out to be really cool. It's very exciting to see my friends are animating those Pixar characters. though he has done internship and out of Pixar, but now he's heading toward to NYC. that's pretty cool, too. so go check his stuff.
Some doodles that I've done recently. First one is referenced from girl's fashion magazine, I was trying to get extreme expression of smile without getting ugly, obviously it failed. oh well, at least now I know what makes girl's face ugly. then second and third are from life drawing class. then I found cute chick in the class, so I draw her, forth one.
Doodle of the day.
So, I've been pretty busy for bunch of reasons. But actually my life is getting slower. I pretty much got used to my working place by now, having some good time with friends, nice food, movies and drink and stuff. Yeah having some fun. There's a tendency that we could forget the real reason why we are making some art when we are in a stressful situation. So I'm hoping this fun that I'm enjoying brings me some good inspiration for my next step.
