Animation of October

     Soooo, today some animation! Luckily I have saved some roughs from it. Welcome Lilla, who is a 6 years old puppy. She loves autumn, especially how it smells, of dry leaves and misty rain. Lilla is an energetic puppy, but also quite sensible.

     First, I started thinking on my idea. This short animation is going to be a part of an Autumn animation JAM we are compositing together with my colleagues from The Animation Workshop in my year of study. We had a color pallet, 48 frames and the theme: Autumn. At the moment my animation is 56 frames, but I know from where to cut it down for the JAM. The reason I made it longer is just because I felt I need some more timing for holds. Usually I think about animation as music or rhythm, that  makes it not feel even, and that's nice, of course not in case you like monotone club music rhythm.

     Because i knew what I am going for, I started sketching my idea. In the first video, first drawings are already tied down, but others are my roughs. They're the fastest and the most efficient to make in order to portray the emotion, the timing and sometimes the spacing of animation. Of course in the animation bellow there are already breakdowns as well, but usually I start only with keys, sometimes with everything like a kind of straight ahead.

     In the second place I do tied down (TD). It is a process which makes you sure that things are working not just because you have rough lines. Sometimes rotary movements work because in rough stage it appears to rotate, but after a tied down you realize your shapes are not connected and consistent. While doing TD I add secondary objects as leaves and their movement. In the end I start thinking about what style of finished look I want.

     I have decided to make the line bolder in order to connect them, because otherwise I couldn't paint in TVP. It took me around 1,30 hours to go other my drawings and do a consistent line work in order to make my coloring easier. 

     Finally after coloring I thought I will add a bit of shadow and texture on top of colors with a color from given pallet. 

     Here it is the final look of the animation! I hope you enjoy it and maybe you have some questions, I will be glad to answer.

I was very inspired to do a little sculpture of my character Lilla. It is made of water base clay with watercolor coloring. For future animation this will be her color pallet. 

Escape

     I do really enjoy coming up with ideas based on one word. I might keep doing that after October is over.
     For day 18th the theme word is escape. The first ideas are usually connected to something action based or stories about heroes. I do enjoy those, but I thought I will do something a little more thoughtful. So I started sketching the idea already knowing what I am going for. First I said I will show in my picture all the characters of this drama, but after making a sketch, the one on the bottom left, it was clear too me that focusing on one character is the better solution. So, I thought, the kid should be my main focus, because through her reaction you can connect much better and maybe recall some feelings from when you where a kid. So I went with that.

Line work in pencil as usual :)

     Deciding where to add the darkest value is not easy. But I try to think about it like that : I could add dark contrast on my focus, or I could make dark notes around my focus, by pointing on the focus. Of course in this image now you look first to the shadow, which is not really my main focus, it is actually the girl, but this helps into understanding the girl's feelings.

I have this version where I couldn't decide to make the shadows darker or not. Finally I think it added more drama to it, so, sometimes risking is not that bad. This is all for today. I hope I can write more entertaining things in the future :) Have a nice Tuesday!

A bit of a big change!

     Hello! I have decided to change this blog to something I will use it more for. Since I don't want to create too many blogs on blogger I decided this page will be murdered in order to reborn. We, people, always tend to overload our life with unnecessary past information. But, yeah, this reborn blog is going to be about WIP drawings, things I do for school, for myself and for you. Hopefully it can serve as inspiration or usefulness.
You can find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mitchbuzgan/
Actually this idea came after doing Inktober, which I find is a useful challenge :)

     Today I want to show how I spoiled a good layout I really liked. It is not always you do something amazing from start till the end. And with ink, real ink, you can't redo it, you can remake it if you have time, which you don't really have for Inktober, since you post daily.
I started with the day theme which was jump. I thought I want to make something more "actiony", since I'm not doing this kind of things that often. I enjoy challenging myself and I go with simple idea when I am busy. So, I thought of different stories, first was something related to war, but later I thought I like drawing another kind of topics, that's why there are 2 lovers saving their lives from a burning helicopter. I had to study a bit how to draw a helicopter, which was a nice exercise. First I scribbled my idea. I did a layout in blue pencil and after with a simple one.

     I inked the general contour and after I added some accents where I thought I need more contrast, or where I wanted the focus to be (point of interest).

     When I started with watercolor things went quite badly :D, but I was enjoying the process, with minor reminders from my brain that I spoiled everything, but I had to finish it, to give it some sort of a look.

     This is it for today. I will keep posting my WIP here. There also will be some animation in 2d, 3d, some character design and other interesting stuff.
You can also see my another blog http://frogsteria.blogspot.dk/, where I talk about different stuff, like workshops, festivals, the Animation Workshop university and other activities and movies I watch etc.