Johncbeggs animation tests

[johncbeggs]

Hi everyone I am going to be posting up some animation that I have been doing over a couple weeks now trying understand animation and how everything works.
-Im very new to my animation desk as I have made it a month or too ago and am trying really hard to get good at animating the classical way-

first one here is my third try at it and I think im improving

(Just a practice of moving the face ad what it can do)- my fav so far nowhere near I think is good though
http://s632.photobucket.com/albums/uu41/johncbeggs/?action=view&current=WIZARDjcb.flv

(bouncing ball technique)- supposed to bounce up and down at the end oops
http://s632.photobucket.com/albums/uu41/johncbeggs/?action=view&current=GORFjcb.flv


(Man ON space)- first classical animation I ever made. dont worry those cheeks of his are buggin me too
http://s632.photobucket.com/albums/uu41/johncbeggs/?action=view&current=manOspacejcb.flv

Hope you guys and gals werent as bad as me when you first started!

[Hana]

These are pretty cool! I like that space guys expression. The bouncing ball link howevver links to the goblin/wizard guy.

I was curious do people just scan in pencil tests with a normal scanner and align them up or?

[johncbeggs]

These are pretty cool! I like that space guys expression. The bouncing ball link howevver links to the goblin/wizard guy.

I was curious do people just scan in pencil tests with a normal scanner and align them up or?

thanks for the comments :) hana , I just fixed the link for the bouncing ball one

and What I did was scan them in with my crappy old scanner then drag all of the pictures on a program called tvpaint animation and the program should make them frame by frame and I convert the video to quicktime :)

[Hana]

The frog is an interesting take on the old classic bouncing ball :D It's cute but I do think with the legs you could have made it much more dynamic if when he jumped up they trailed behind him much more and as he went down they came up more.

[johncbeggs]

The frog is an interesting take on the old classic bouncing ball :D It's cute but I do think with the legs you could have made it much more dynamic if when he jumped up they trailed behind him much more and as he went down they came up more.

I know that. :) It does look funny and I was supposed to make the frog landing but I thought the bouncing with the toung would have been better but then I went halfway because I couldnt make my mind up :) I need to plan these things better but your definatly right if the frog was landing the legs would be up higher and I got all confused at this point :).

thanks again for the advice hana,

[dmgctrl]

Looks good, John. Would be nice to see it repeated a few times, especially the frog one.

[lavallelee]

ya try it bouncing bouncing bouncing!!

[johncbeggs]

Looks good, John. Would be nice to see it repeated a few times, especially the frog one.

Thankyou dmgctrl, Ill be sure to include a few repeatings next time I do another one.

[johncbeggs]

ya try it bouncing bouncing bouncing!!

I might remake the frog one and make it a little more better looking now that I actually learned how to flip the pieces of paper because my board does not have pegs,someone is selling me one for an extremely good price and he said he will throw in a stack of animation paper too so im a bit excited to see how that goes.

I will try to post an animation everyday hopefully getting much better each try, any suggestions on what I should do today?

[jeremyhopkins]

These are pretty darn good for your first attempts. Its cool to see you experimenting but at the same time, if you don't mind my advice, I think its really important to get the basics down too. Your frog is a nice idea and it looks like its based on the bouncing ball. Don't be afraid to do the bouncing ball a few times with different weights and timings. Cameron (http://www.cameronmiyasaki.com/Animation/Animation_right/animation_right.htm#)(scroll down to the bottom) has a really great example of what you can do with a bouncing ball. The personality and storytelling is all there with such limited characters. Congrats on getting some more stuff up. You'll be one of the hotshots when you get into Capilano.

[johncbeggs]

These are pretty darn good for your first attempts. Its cool to see you experimenting but at the same time, if you don't mind my advice, I think its really important to get the basics down too. Your frog is a nice idea and it looks like its based on the bouncing ball. Don't be afraid to do the bouncing ball a few times with different weights and timings. Cameron (http://www.cameronmiyasaki.com/Animation/Animation_right/animation_right.htm#)(scroll down to the bottom) has a really great example of what you can do with a bouncing ball. The personality and storytelling is all there with such limited characters. Congrats on getting some more stuff up. You'll be one of the hotshots when you get into Capilano.

thankyou jeremy for the great advice and really kind words, Ill check out camerons website for some advice about the bouncing ball.

I am really interested in facial expressions that the characters have and emotions they feel and want to see how far I could take those emotions with animation ,I will certainly try to put more animations up.

Anyone have any idea what I should animate today :)

[johncbeggs]

Hi everyone check out like my fourth try at traditional animation using Don Bluth's tips about the turn-around, This one was really tricky and took some time!

sorry about the crappy quality the drawings look way better than this clip, I had to lower the quality to nothing because of photo bucket issues :(.

he is called FatCat,What do you think,
http://s632.photobucket.com/albums/uu41/johncbeggs/?action=view&current=Turnaround.flv

[johncbeggs]

Worked on this most of the day!
got some practice trying to move weight around on a run cycle of a fat chick :laughing:


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