Bouncing Ball animation

This is my bouncing ball animation from a couple of weeks ago! Might still revise the first bounce on the way in to make it shorter.

Hero and Villain Assignment

For this assignment we were to make a Hero and Villain pair. I tried making two women working in space, one of whom is ex-military with a vendetta to kill a giant space whale, and the other a young girl who took on a job as advisor to the captain for handling dangerous deep space organisms. The young girl is Clair, she has to report back to Earth or space HQ or something (not everything is nailed down yet) on whether this whale needs to be preserved or destroyed. The older woman is Captain Annette, who has lost family to this dangerous space whale thing and pretty much would kill herself and her crew just to get a swing at it.

I want to update you guys on some of the schoolwork I've been doing! The thing I was most excited for was actually animating moving things, so I'll start with that. Our first assignment in our Timing Techniques class was to animate a swinging pendulum. We needed to learn to show things slowing to a stop and reversing direction, and how to make things slow down or speeding up and still look natural.

 

For now this looks a bit dark, but as we get into more polished animations it'll look clearer, I promise. ;)

Draw your Muse assignment

This is my first shot at the project where we draw what our creative muse looks like. This is Memoria, she's actually one of the original muses from ancient Greece, sort of a lesser spirit. She takes up residence in different people at different times. The few times when she has been without a person to inhabit as a muse, she's been mistaken for a ghost. With me she has spent a lot of time sleeping, during times in my life when I didn't draw much. Because she's so old she has seen a lot and has a lot of creative potential but she's not always cooperative. She kind of falls asleep a lot.

Shapes Challenge

Done for our character design class! We had to take some shapes given to us by Tara and work within them to make characters. Check out Tara's Drawing Jam next week to see what the other students did with the shapes.

Update!

Hello ladies, gentlemen, and bots. I'm going to resurrect this blog as a drawing blog, but probably not as a daily sketch blog. I've started at the NBCC animation program and this will be a place for me to show my work and hear from my classmates, other animators, and everyone else!
To my classmates, beyond this post are about 200 days worth of weekday drawings from 2009-2010. Some of them are pretty good, some of them are terrible. This tag might be of interest?
EDIT: This one too!

heeeeyoooo

I put something up here on The Place To BE.

you can see other things I've posted there if you click on the tag 'Ana'. Fun fun!