Saturday, December 1, 2012

Pencil Tests - Rough Stages

So, another semester is coming to an end and I just have to say....when did that happen?? It went by so quickly I barely had time to realize I have a ton of finals piled up. With that said though, I figured I would put up the rough animations, some just in the key and breakdown stages, that I've done so far.


This was the first animation assignment I did for my junior year. I had to practice showing weight by having a character lift a heavy object. It came out fuzzy and dark for some reason. Definitely going to reshoot once it's fully inbetweened. You may have to view it larger for now. Good old technology...

For this, we had to have one character passing an object to another character. I already decided I wanted to use Kit and Christian, but originally I was going to have him give her his necklace. However, it snowed the day I started and I just got in the mood for doing a winter theme...and a snuggly one. This is also just in the rough stages.


More roughs! This time of an expression change. I was going to try a funny gag, but I thought it'd be more of a challenge to animate deeper emotions. I feel like I wasn't at my best for this one. It looked a lot better in my head, but my classmates knew what the emotions were so that's good. 

I really am going to push inbetweening at least the passing one before the semester's end and hopefully the bear. Next time, I hear I am going to be animating 2 lip synchs and a finished film! Seeing as how last year went, expect this year's film to be a lot simpler, but more animated!

Anywho, back to work!