I spontaneously spurted out 6 pages of rough character doodles today. From now on I'm going to be calling this rare outburst Doodle vomiting. I really ought to doodle vomit more often. My aim at first was to doodle the Tea N Crumpets characters in how I would like to animate them: bouncy, stretchy and all over the shop. here's a page a RabRab doodles that finally use more then that one pose! He also now has a purpose! His there to sort out all the tingles that invest the style by squashing the with his big 'ammer! There's also some of the Fly and Flip the Robot in there.
This next page also features some random animation ideas, such as a mouth movement for the "Time Paradox!" space hopper on a space hopper, and some doodles of Reet eating a music note. Yep.
You may also notice a TV shaped bloke and a Scissors bloke wit X_X eyes there too. These are in fact characters I made up when I was a kid I just threw in there. here is how they looked back in 1995:
The reason I've now given Scissor Man (or should I say 'Sirror man', according to that old image. "Tants me!"), X eyes is because the last time I drew him he was squashed under that space hopper I drew all my characters (new and old) on. For the fun of it I started adapting the Scissor character some more on this next page (which also features Guah, from the 'Leave' page):
The next page of ideas came from 1) a Dreamcast memory jumping out of a cupboard, slowly falling on my bed then crashing loudly onto the floor twice and 2) a pair of socks my dad dropped on the floor from the washing:
I searched through some old art to find more things I could adapt, with the most successful being this character at the bottom, with the bean-shape body and large eyebrow. I also like the arrow guy who cracks his back straight. My backs feels like his all the time:
Forget Tea N Crumpets, I'm gonna use this guy for the sound/character animation project I've gotta do next semester. I don't know what to call him yet, all I know is this character is going to be very peeved about something, and is shouting at someone off screen, maybe. I drew some more doodles of him here:
Oh, and I've started to work on the next Tea N Crumpets update, by the way. No idea when it will be ready, however.
Because I haven't been using this Blog a lot lately, I'm playing a bit of catch up here.
Here's a drawing I did for a submission for a TV show. I finally got the word on who got the job for animating the 10-secound segments they wanted: I didn't get the part with my idea =P
And here's a drawing I started a whle ago, and it doesn't look at though I'm going to get around to finishing it, so here it is in it's incomplete glory.
Not because everyone else is doing after John K started talking about it, but because I not long bought the book for 12 quid on Amazon, here are some doodles of stuff out of 'Cartoon Animation' I did a few weeks ago and forgot to post here. Sorry I'm not printing out the old pages that everyone is using with the copyrighted characters in them! I really don't care! =D
I really couldn't be bummed with all that face stuff at the start. I'm a lazy bum.
So I just did some of the full characters in there. Drawing characters as bean shapes first is fun.
And here's some more. The Wolf came out really messy. While I'm not to found of drawing these kind of cartoon-y characters, using the construction lines is a great little tool, and I'll defiantly try and remember to use them in my own character drawings. This should help my character designs to be more appealing, as I want to re-animate all the Tea N Crumpets characters as some point, and make them all bouncy and alive. Like a 30's cartoon, or something. I guess it's a start.
Been on a day out in London today, for various reasons.
Firstly, the Pixar Exhibit in the Science Museum. One of my 'net mates' Tuke met me up there, as he doesn't live too far off from there. The Pixar show was great, although you couldn't take any cameras into it or anything, they had some great pieces in there, including many I haven't seen in the "Art of" books they have been doing, mainly because they only started doing them from Monsters Inc, and have just released "The Art of Cars".
The highlights were defiantly the two exclusive showings: a giant Three Dimensional praxioscope featuring dozens of Toy Story characters coming to life in front of our eyes (Very much like the one they have in the Moving Image Museum in Queens) and a looping screening of a 11-minute high definition wide-wide-wide-screen show of Pixar's many paintings brought to life by moving them about in 3D (it's much more impressive than it sounds, especially with the sound). I would of also sat to watch all their short films that were playing on some TV screens on one wall if it wasn't packed with half-term-kids. I came out of the gift shop with the exclusive book they had there, that featured more-or-less everything in the exhibit, which although it was £25, I'm not likely to find it again.
We then, after a Pizza Hut buffet lunch, popped into the Forbidden Planet Megastore to drool at all the wonderful things we can't afford. They had a beautiful Fantasia 2000 book in there, but waned a hefty £60 for it. I did end up being one cheap comic/book type thing though: a best-of of the Marvel Ren & Stimpy comics. Not very big but for £3 it was worth it alone for the lovely front cover, which features a very early-style Ren Hoek. The comics inside obversely have nothing on Spumco's art, and the stories feel very "Games", but I did notice some cute little gags in there, and as I said: that cover art, and I like collecting the old Ren & Stimpy crap as it rarely pops up in this country. The shop also had those incredible new Looney Tunes figures (you know, the What's Opera Doc etc ones) but I resisted them for now.
Lastly, the exhibit my college decided to do in East London, which was pretty tucked away in a rather dodgy area that smelled an awful lot like curry everywhere, with blokes asking you in the street to buy the junk in their shops. Anyway, the exhibit has nothing on the one we did in Multimedia last summer. The animation area was just a small set and a projector showing some of the 2nd/3rd years work, and that's it. very disappointing. I sure hope we can improve on this next year when our group has to do it
So that was a long but fun day there. It was great to meet up with someone I've known online for a couple years, and he showed me some of his sketchbooks and darn, drawings are always better when you see the real thing from scans. I might update this post with some related images tomorrow.
This next page also features some random animation ideas, such as a mouth movement for the "Time Paradox!" space hopper on a space hopper, and some doodles of Reet eating a music note. Yep.
You may also notice a TV shaped bloke and a Scissors bloke wit X_X eyes there too. These are in fact characters I made up when I was a kid I just threw in there. here is how they looked back in 1995:
The reason I've now given Scissor Man (or should I say 'Sirror man', according to that old image. "Tants me!"), X eyes is because the last time I drew him he was squashed under that space hopper I drew all my characters (new and old) on. For the fun of it I started adapting the Scissor character some more on this next page (which also features Guah, from the 'Leave' page):
The next page of ideas came from 1) a Dreamcast memory jumping out of a cupboard, slowly falling on my bed then crashing loudly onto the floor twice and 2) a pair of socks my dad dropped on the floor from the washing:
I searched through some old art to find more things I could adapt, with the most successful being this character at the bottom, with the bean-shape body and large eyebrow. I also like the arrow guy who cracks his back straight. My backs feels like his all the time:
Forget Tea N Crumpets, I'm gonna use this guy for the sound/character animation project I've gotta do next semester. I don't know what to call him yet, all I know is this character is going to be very peeved about something, and is shouting at someone off screen, maybe. I drew some more doodles of him here:
Oh, and I've started to work on the next Tea N Crumpets update, by the way. No idea when it will be ready, however.
