Flynns book..animations and what nots..

[Flynn]

[EDIT] Last page shows my current wip of Animations!!! gogogo [/EDIT]

Some recent work for illustration class
We had to illustrate common sayings but through limited means.



Please look below, ill improve, Honest!

[Flynn]

[EDIT] ok I revisited this thread 2 years after making it, can you believe that? heh. Piccies down below [/EDIT]

[Flynn]

Completely forgot about this place, wierd .

Anyways lets have a little update on my life thus since eh?

Changed course to Animation & Illustration & Graphic Design, I heard my calling if you will

Piccies soon folks and im currently elnjoying all of Slys animations
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=51867&page=2

Ace stuff and also my encouragement for this comeback

Happy new year all..

[Flynn]

Wow it ate my edit? damn ><

Ill have to do a short version now hate doing things twice!!

my website containg 1 year old work

toilet hub

Heres my animatic for this years animation im hoping to have done ontime for jan 2006 via hand/flash work.


and here are were the old wips reside, cant upload to this space while at Uni which sux, so no place to upload to till i have my website sorted ><

I confess im crap, but I really do wanna change that, ive even given up playing games and pick my pen up instead now

[armando]

Download easytoon and start getting some animations up, but don't forget the sketches and stuff too. One of the mice is eaten?, kind of hard to tell.

[sly's hand]

glad I could kick you in the face over the internet been tryn to do that to someone for years. Easytoon is a good way to figure out and experiment with animation seriously or non. And I agree with armando to not forget sketching in the sketchbook... but I am glad that you have a renewed intrest in art animation and what have you. Happy new year Ill be back.

sly

[Flynn]

Yeah cheers sly much apreciated it was

[edit] quick edit, wonderin why i cant use my gif as an avatar?[/edit]

??
Ok lemme try this eh


Old drawing of what was my main inspiration at the time

Old anim I made which got me a decent grade

this is the bg so far for my planned animation, being used as a rotoscope youll see its full size is pretty big for obvious reasons being used in flash


Here is the wip fight obvious bit of fun for me



and heres how far ive got with my noobish attempts in flash, only picked it up about a week ago bla.
http://img336.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sofar5ge.swf
Hopefully my last workings at the mouses walk next step to make the ninjas
Just gotta do another 8 inbetweens to make it nice and obviously make it into the poor ol mouse

Heres my wip of my snake so far..

Crits really apreciated as I want to get top marks for this animation (its the 1st time ive started doing any animation longer than 1 sec)

[Flynn]

Slight update on the walk, tis now damn gracefull

Done on 1s this time not 2s, all inbetweened and it makes me a happy bunny


More crap tomorow

[Matt Smith]

its cool to see your animations, i really like the egg superhero guy, though i feel his squash and strech could be exaggerated more. keep posting your animations, dont get to see too much of those around here.

[Flynn]

Ok its fairly obvious im absolutely shit at drawing, ive been trying to draw what I hoped was my final attempt at the mouse doing its walk. But alas I can manage the timin on scribbles but anything else bla ><

So I intend to do a real sketchbook now aswell as animations so many cool guys in this place. But as I suppose you should, Ill put up my "early" drawins ><















I know there horible, shamefull even but it had to be done?

[Flynn]

[Midnight]

Keep going - I'd advise you check out some Loomis (www.saveloomis.org) for anatomy. Don't worry too much about detail until you've got the basic shapes right, and then you can start to refine what you have.

I'd also suggest you keep away from stylized works while you're learning anatomy - it usually does nothing more than throw people off. You're much better off understanding how things *really* are before trying to twist them too much .

Good luck with your drawings, and with some dedicated practice I'm sure there'll be some great things in here before too long!

Mid.

[Flynn]

Cheers midnight, and right you are ill start doing a seriosu sketchbook attempt soon as my deadlines are out the way, till then im hanging on to my animation and graphic projects by the teeth!

anyways more doodles, probaly made another 1sec on my animation, only another 24 to go





My snake in perspective and ninjas are holding my progress up by miles !!

[Diego]

really cool animations dude, and keep practicing the basic stuff, it will help you termendously.
Cheers and keep postin

[Flynn]

Thankyou diego I really am trying to make time for life studies an wtithat not and great sketchbok m8

Anyways been a hard few days for me only done another second of animation and the deadlines looming i ait even proud of what ive achived yet ><
But Ive managed to finish my intro title my snake rises and raaaawwrs in time to the lions roar of the MGM title

[Flynn]

Little update, allmost completed my 1st animation, aiming for a 1st on it



This is a short animation of when the snakes tied up and being teased by the mice.



His been beaten up and dazed, the stars go round clockwise now

[Flynn]

Well just got back from my 1st hour session of life drawing in bout 3 years. And im quite excited actually, I think I did ok

[OBX]

sweet, animations. Im thinking about going into it, not sure i have the work ethic tho. Sure is cool seeing ur own drawings come to life tho. Have u tried that techniq were u right down all the letters of the aphabet in lines?

ie aaaa
bbbb
cccc

But u rotate each letter in each row 45 degrees. It helps u to reqognize comon shapes and lines while drawing animation. And how they relate to one another wen they are moved.

but yeah, anatomy, u need work there (ca.org slogan). Those life studies are good tho.

Keep up the hard work and post more.

[fooxoo]

Good start at animation. I wanna start myself Do more anatomy and life studies. Cool SB.

[Flynn]

Thanks OBX, great tip but at the minute I cheat by using my own lightbox made from a redundant draw, ill post a pic of it sometime

And the work ethic is pretty stupid, if ya lazy you just wont ever get anythin done to any level, wereas if your mad and like waking up at all hours to add little touches then youll do fine (ittle touches that take 2-3 hours)

I definately plan to improve my life drawing studeis on all sides

Fooxoo cheers m8 its easier than you think to start digitally (traditional costs a whole load of &#163;&#163;&#163; to start >< )

[Flynn]

Well i promised a daily update but got backlogged with my final animation piece, now that thats in and ive only 3 more to go here goes







Ok ive hopefully got a life drawing session tomorow for a few hours so I should be improving more still

[anymale]

wow good lively anims
how long does it take

[Flynn]

ages and then more.

[OBX]

Looking good. wen are u gonna learn to do some flash animation? coz I love samurai jack .

[Flynn]

Im already pretty competent in flash regarding it technicaly but alas so far all ive done is drop in hand drawn pics and edit away.

Havent the balls or a tablet to draw directly into flash, but I will soon

Planning to go headlong into getting a grasp of the figure, by plenty life drawing and all those loomis books ive dled any quick tips on quick improvement do parts or whole figures?

[Kronos]

hey flynn,

REALLY nice to see someone actually attempting animation properly! one thing i could point out is to try and employ squash and stretch a bit more(while still keeping the same volume of the characters)

and i'm afraid i have to say your character concepts for the snake and rabbit, are pretty far from original, but i understand this is just of animations sake, so i'll let it ride this time......

i think the best pice so far is that early walk cycle that you did on ones, but try exaggerate you motions more to get a sense of weight

ps: have you got "the Animators Survival kit"? (Richard Williams) its truley a MUST have for anyone even thinking about animation, its SOOOOOOOOOOOO damn good!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kresh]

you seem to love snakes!. I like your recent life drawings, i like the flow and energy of them. I would love to see more stuff like that, i doesnt look like your too far off from some really unique lifedrawings.

[Flynn]

Thankyou both Kresh and Kronos.

Kronos, yes I do have that very book just never enough time to set aside to do the examples ><, and the characters being flat I totally agree but that was done solely because I cant draw terribly well, and well 30 secs of animation has taken up so much of my life with just the learning let alone the doing ^^.

Kresh, I chose the snake because out of all I thought it would put me head an shoulders above the rest in the class who decided to do 30 secs of a slug moving
And thanks for the life drawings, I too quite like it but todays plnned sessions went to pot because Its actually another module Im not schequled so any time I spend on it, is time away from my other programmed modules. Just arent enough hours eh

And since I spent all of today doing my friking brochure design instead of life drawing I think it only right you get to see im not slacking (im so far behind la)


So far all thats annnoying me is the amount of friking text you have to coordinate on these things >< but ill get there some day, also we have to have all the artwork vetted and ready for print (doing cmyk correctly and speccing pantones and all that crap !! )

Anyways ive done the other 2 art choices just need more Illustrations at the min its just this one.

Its made with 3 cmyk combinations and uses transparencies so it adjusts to the bg

[OBX]

ok, just one beef with that brochure, that chicks uper lip has got to get pushed out. Its making her smile look really awkwerd.

as for the life studies. work on individual parts first. Then work on full figure drawings. Go fast and messy at first. After 30 or so studies done fast and shitty, tighten up and to a few really tight ones.

Anyways good stuff, keep up the hard work man.

[sly's hand]

The dedication is nice I look forward to all of it. Never feel forced to to life studies, just when you do them remember to enjoy what you can . I like what you have been doing, improvement comes from practice and I look forward to seeing what else you can do. Cheers, keep at it

sly