First Work as a Professional Animator!

So here's the commercial i was working on as production/animation assistant! It turned out great!

Clicky Me!

Figure Drawings

Latest drawings from the figure drawing sessions.

Bar Animation Blocking Update

Here is an update of the blocking of the first character utilizing the great suggestions offered to me by Erik Westlund (Thank you!). We had a great discussion about how what is often lacking in animation is texture; The peaks and valleys of the movement within the animation. Its what makes the animation interesting. Its breaking up the rhythm so things arent all happening on the same beats-its varying the size of poses to add emphasis to various parts. It really should be the 13th principle of animation.

My original blocking was lacking some of this texture at the beginning and end. It had a good middle but the bookends were boring. In a good sandwhich everything tastes good, including the bread; my bread was boring, only the meat was interesting.
Hopefully this version remedies that a bit.

Comments and critiques are welcome!

Figure Drawings

I finally have enough time to start going back to my life drawing sessions! Hooray! How i missed them; 5 months is a long time to go without. There's nothing more rewarding and more frustrating than drawing the human figure sitting right in front of you.

Here's some from the other night.

Sketch

Been doin a lot of overdue sketching, while waiting for school to start up again so i have access to their programs to finish my short. Heres one of my better ones lately.

New Animation

Working on a new piece for my demo reel. My intention is to replace some of the older pieces over the next couple of months which no longer represent my abilities as an animator. So far this is just the bare bones blocking of poses. Any comments or critiques thus far?

Update

Well, i've finally finished the animation of my short film!!! Hooray!!! I composited it all together but its all just playbasts at this point with a sprinkling of rendered scenes here and there. Its essentially a ruff cut of the shots with the music, no sound fx yet. Im going to take a week or two off and let my mind regroup, then come back and decide if theres any thing extra i want to add. The plan after that is to render over the break and put the film all together in January, when i have access to the schools programs again. Then after that its off to film festivals!

I was fortunate that the animation department head, Becky Wible Searles allowed me to spend this whole semester working on the character animation, rather than spending weeks worrying about the rendering. I was able to make a much better film this way and i truly appreciate it.

So in the meantime, check out my brand new website! I plan to update it as often as i can with new sketches and animations and definitely the short film sometime in February!

seancolemanart.com