Hands and Animals and Feet, oh my.

It's been a little while since my last post, hasn't it? Oh my, yes it has. My apologies to the few of you who were asking me when I was going to update. This will be a gigantic post with many pictures, so there you go!

Some of my very own hands and feet, for a life drawing assignment. I had lots of fun getting cramps in all my phalanges, but sadly some of the perspective is warped on a few of these.




Another life drawing assignment, this time from the Royal Winter Fair. Many gestures and a few studies of the many animals on display or in competition. Turns out that cows, even the very plump ones, have a delightful bone structure and are lovely to draw. Who knew?



A sheet of expressions for character design. I still have quite a bit of trouble with humans, as you can probably tell. I do quite like this lady (she's batshit, you see), and I do quite like a couple of these expressions. However, I didn't get the continuity that I would like to see. Some of the later ones feel like I was drawing her sister instead of her.


A layout assignment, using the same small dino from the last post. Poor guy. Birds are jerks.





Here are a pair of paintings from way back at the beginning of the semester. More or less my first attempts at painting with gauche, the medium of choice for our painting class.



Another painting, this time quick little sketches of textures.



And finally, my most recent painting (from earlier this week). I didn't spend as much time on this as I would have liked, and there are many parts I would like to refine. I do like how the metal midsection of the gas lamp turned out.

Just Some Stuff

I know I've been horrible about utilizing this blog-deally, but it's mostly been due to a case of USB key missing-itis and a general reluctance to bus anywhere to replace it. What's that called again? Oh right, laziness.

Here are a couple images I did manage to transfer to this computer before my onset of USB key missing-itis, that have been languishing on my photo bucket account for the last couple weeks.

Let's see what we have here... we've got a few early ideas for a character design pose project. I went with a tailless crested gecko character. Because they are expressive and expressive little boogers. But mostly because I like them. Final work to be uploaded when I get over my lazy-itis:


A preliminary idea for a layout assignment (a character in a partial environment), introducing markers:



That same idea a little more developed, and more fun with markers. Oh, and @#$% trees:



Fun with markers, the sketchybook art noveau edition. Drawn during a lecture in low lighting and then later marked with my new markers. I still don't know how to use markers well yet, but I do love them so:



And finally, look at my horse. My horse is amazing. Give it a lick (it tastes just like raisins). It is a halter-bred quarter horse, and they are indeed very muscle.

Animation Number One

Finally, after weeks of work (procrastination is almost like work, right?), here is my first ever animation assignment, finished and ready to show the world! 

Ladies and gents, I give you:

My balls. 

Oh, and yes, a couple other things.

I've got a bit of character design work for you here:



A couple character/environment interaction concepts:



And a couple random sketches.

First Animations Ever!

And now, without further ado, I give you my first two animations ever!

First is the bouncing ball. Twenty frames, overall I like the path and don't need to be changing too much when I do the final version. I do want to tweak the impact of the bounces a tiny bit, and I'll be working with the background in the second animation, not this one.



And my second ever animation, the lovely bowling ball of minor doom. 65 frames in this one, will probably be closer to 70 in the final. Really, looking at it now I don't hate it as much as I did when I first scanned it in. There are absolutely quite a few things to fix, but this was a very rough pencil test after all.

It is exciting to see your drawings, even those of a simple circle, become a simple few seconds of animation.

Tiny Book Sketches Episode One!

Well well well, seems I will be able to keep this blog thing running for more than one post after all! What a lovely surprise!

Today, I treat you to a couple tiny little pages from my tiny little travel sketchbook. Nothing explicitly animation-related yet, just airplane fun time doodles.

Animation Portfolio 2011

Hello!

I've been excited all week to scan a few things at school, as I am currently scanner-less, and to finally start up my animation blog! Of course once I do, I have no idea what to say. So I'm just going to jump in right away. It works for getting used to cold water, it must work for blogging. Right?

So to start, I'm giving you... most of my Animation Admission Portfolio! There are a couple pieces I still need to scan in.

Character design and turn around:











I've always loved fish keeping and aquariums, so I knew I wanted to do a fish character. This particular guy is a Mandarin Dragonet, an expressive, colourful, goby-like species that I absolutely adore. But, as it turns out, fish are difficult to turn into a character. And it's particularly difficult to get them into good action poses, as you can see in my two action poses:





Next up is the storyboard. I decided to go with the boy character, simply because I liked his design better. I did make one big mistake with my storyboards, and that was to treat all four as one 'scene', focusing on keeping the character and box consistent in each page rather than creating a variety of 'shots'.









Four Objects:





For those interested, the creatures now living in and on the objects are coraline algae, zoanthids (a type of soft coral polyp), some hair algae, two feather dusters, a hermit crab and one little goby.

Two room views:





I was very dissatisfied with both of these, and I thought they were my weakest pieces. Though I got most of my stuff done months in advance, these two were the ones I was up at the last minute finishing. The figure on the couch in particular I am unhappy with.

Hand studies:







Life Drawing:

These are scans of photos of large drawings that I had to leave back in Edmonton (what with them being large and all). So they do look a little wonky.







Two animal drawings from life:



And finally, a couple personal pieces:





That should do it for my first post! I will be posting more once I can get to the school scanners. And finally, a huge thanks to Alison Chan for helping me start up this blog and transfer my scans from the school computers!

TTFN,
Hannah Schmidt