SPACEY animation concept sketchbook

[cout<mecha]

Aside from just being lax, I'm waiting on these contest results for the Uplift Challenge. Of course, if you haven't seen the video slash promo slash trailer slash...GO SEE IT YA!

Otherwise I'm working on 3D design from a recent scribble. It sort of reminds me of someone I know. Of course, the person will probably never know that they became an invinceble mech droid from the deep. But you never know!



Here's something...



Sumpin sumthin!



Must...form....next...peice....eeeeaaaaaaahhhhhuuu ugggggmmmhhhhhfffffhhhhppp..

So LAZEY!

[Lateman]

hey broth,

thanks for always have a word to my sketchbook

your style is awsome i swear, looks strange but it got so mutch charackter at all. i like your mech-designs very mutch. maybe you can post some traditionel drawings and anathomie ... yes i know this sucks, but its sooo important

keep rockin dude

cheers lateman

[cout<mecha]

Hey Lateman, nice`to see your face. OK, i'll post a few studies that I've done for my animation.

It's best that you come up with a method that works best for you in the long run. The stuff I'll post may be older and I'm thinking my methods may be different now as I have different visual needs.

Honestly haven't been doing a lot of studies as a lot of the people on this site are doing. I'm focusing on other technical things that don't neccesarily involve drawing but you can check out my beginnings in attempting to animate while keeping my anatomy going just from imagination on one of my characters...



MORE LATER...THANKS FOR STOPPING BYE!

[cout<mecha]

As per your request I'll be posting some sketches and studies; for animation of course!

I don't know how far I'll go with this as I have a lot of sketchbooks. Some good some bad. I dunno, you don't usually post old bad sketches unless you are looking for critiques to make them better. I usually just move on, unless I'm trying to get a character right...





See you next time!

[yinteck]

Hey, how are you? Thanks for always dropping by at my SB. You have improve alot. One problem for me is that sometimes there is no consistencies.
Because some of your work is at a very good standard but some is not. Maybe you did not spend as much time at all of them.

Great work, keep posting. Wanna see more !

[cout<mecha]

Good of you to drop by! If you have something you would like to see I can throw that up as Lateman has done. I posting some older organic type sketchbook pages. Been low on memory for a long time so no big projects. I'll try to keep the quality the best I can!

[cout<mecha]

Doing some submission stuff for Heavy Metal. Working on a concept character design based on a poster pre-release. The character is traditional while the laser is 3D. Broke my dongle tho, so that's why the image is checkered a bit.

[cout<mecha]

I made these sketches from a funny movie called Dolemite vs the Shaolin a while ago. I used 3 minute time increments, mostly because the DVD would only pause for about that long. This was before animation school, and I was trying to train my eye to see different poses and draw them quickly while maintaining the flow and feel of the motion. Just watch these Tiger moves...he he.













WOO-HA!

[cout<mecha]

Stayed up late last night past bedtime experimenting with Freehand for animation and watching old 1930's gangster films. It's really great but has some major glitches. These are some keyframes from an animation I'm working on. Trial edition ends in 2 days...

[yinteck]

This is what i want to see. I like the shaolin studies and also the robotic hand, very detail and very good quality there. The bird is also good. A lot of quality in this updates.
Thanks for the stopping by. I'll definitely ask for your help if i have any problems in animation

[cout<mecha]

These are some old dragon keys I have published on my website. I figured it was about time I moved them over to my sketchbook...

MY PRECIOUS!!!

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Wow you work really hard man! Keep it up and keep challenging yourself as much as you can=

-E

[cout<mecha]

Seems that you can't animate groups of blends in Illustrator. On top of that, there is only one page in the vastness of the infinite zoombafu which is Illustrator. LISTEN ALLE YALL!!!

Freehand will do this but has some blend proximity issues. If anyone from Adobe is listening, GET A CLUE!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




ADOBE SAYS OPEN WIDE 2D ANIMATORS!

[yinteck]

Nice update ! The dragon is great. But i dont buy the color of the last head drawing, for me i think it is to striking.
Did u get my email ?

[Lateman]

hey cout, your stuff is crazy! ich like your figures sooo mutch. i realy can loarn a lot from it. have you anytime thought about to use photoshop for your digital drawings? it realy would increase the quality of your work! keep workin hard man, best wishes from me

lateman

[cout<mecha]

Pix-Hey thanks Pix, hope you will be stopping by often as I admire your work!

Yin-yes I got you message, too bad I guess. The last drawing was made in Illustrator as I was trying out blending.

Lateman-aside from the Metal character sheet I have been posting older stuff as you had requested earlier. I will post even more figure drawing soon!

[cout<mecha]

More vectors of character Myria Sterling from Robotech Saga...


Really going to post some figure studies soon...

[cout<mecha]

I've tranlates a bunch of anime drawing from popular series into figure drawing. As you would expect some work better than others, and some are completely unfounded in reality. I'll put those up LAST. It's kind of useless to post a lot of disney figure drawing of say Cinderella, as they are continously moving and don't have a nomenclature of poses like anime does. You may recognize a few of the figures from your favorite series!

ANIME FIGURE DRAWINGS:MALE

Some Thundercats!

NOW FOR THE ANIME EXCLUSIVE FIGURE METHODS...

I HOPE THIS POST IS HELPFUL TO THOSE SEEKING TO MAKE QUICK FIGURE DRAWINGS FOR ANIMATION. ALSO TO HELP RECOGNIZE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORKING IN AN ANIME STYLE AND WORKING WITH NORMAL DRAWING ANIMATION.

I will post the female poses later this week!!!

[N A Johnson]

A little more variation in your lines couldn't hurt. I notice that many of your pencil drawings (mostly the mechs) have the same line-thickness all around. That flattens the image out, plus the design tends to get lost.

I enjoy your animations. Keep posting.

[cout<mecha]

Thanks Ex, I think your right about that, I'm more of a sketcher painter
than an inker. That's why I have problems sometimes. I will hopefully
be able to work in some vector programs to correct this problem.

Again something from my homesite to break up the space in here after
so many figure drawings. Some beasties!!!

'RYU'

[cout<mecha]

For the second installment of the figure drawings series of course will be the female side of things. Personally I think the anime females are more expressive than the males and have a lot of action! With translating them into figure drawings you really have to use your imagination sometimes as a lot of very important curves are sometimes obscured or distorted. You may notice that there are different maturity levels within even in kids shows which makes anime attractive to all ages of animation fans. The same rules apply in terms of figures that didn't meet with the standards of traditional anatomy.

ANIME FIGURE DRAWINGS:FEMALE

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ONCE AGAIN I HOPE THESE ARE USEFUL TO ANYONE IN THE ANIMATION FIELD WHO IS MESMERIZED BY THE NOMENCLATURE OF THE ANIME MEDIUM OR NEEDS A QUICK GUIDE FOR DRAWING FEMALE FIGURES FOR ANIMATION. I HOPE YOU WILL ADD AND IMPROVE UPON THESE DRAW, IF YOU DO PLEASE LET ME SEE1!!!


Ganbatte!

[kelly x]

Hey a mad flurry of stuff and hard work!! the studies are getting good and good for you doing them!! the action is your best work - when someone is in action, you are really inspiring me to do more studies!! The submission for heavy metal needs some work, the middle figure looks goos the one on the left looks very thick in the neck area. just slim her neck down a bit. I like the gun! and keep going on these radical diverse studies!! Wow what progress here!!

[zulu]

woooo, lots of poses, really good work, more more!, cheers mate!

[kelly x]

dude where are you?? I wrote Aug 30th and where's my update!! LOL!!

[cout<mecha]

Thanks Zulu, really app reciate your face here as you are a cool persona and make really neat drawings as well, trying different things all the time trying to expand your range;

Well Kelly, what can I say...been tied up a lot lately, more recently than lately with issues beyond my control. So hastily but whole heartedly I've posted this update. I'm trying to animate some more with vectors. These dragons are my latest victims in this regard. I'm not a big dragon person, they always seem to sneak into my sketches when I'm wanting to do a mecha droid destructor cyber being. Or one of my one horned for eyed flying purple people eaters.

Oh well! Enjoy!





Will have some more characters laterz!

[kelly x]

awesome droid man next and I happen to like dragons quite a bit!! and thanks for doing this within 3-5 minutes!!!

[cout<mecha]

I'm not sure what that last message alludes to ? But still working it out tonight with some light humor. Finishing up an illustration I made of some WB style cats getting all dressed up-The title should be called The Outkatz!

I tawt I taw...

[yinteck]

Haha nice one. The poses is good , alot of dynamic poses.
One thought on the dragon, i really like the pencil one, but i think some part is to busy. Maybe is the size, post a larger one. Wanna see more detail on it.

[cout<mecha]

OUTKATZ-back after these messages!

[cout<mecha]

We Now Return to the Outkatz!!!



While the Cats Away...