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SAN FOTTUTO (self portrait)

2010-08-13T13:32:00.000-07:00

Notes of Animation

2010-08-13T13:29:00.000-07:00

Some notes i've doing where describes my methodology in animation....

sketch for 11second

2010-08-04T07:05:00.000-07:00

A new character to rigged..there some sketches:

This character for Bob McLean

2010-06-14T02:33:00.000-07:00

Bob Mclean for his last work (wonderfull and funny script!) needs some animation.
Some months ago i've drawing a character and i've try to animated...but without convince me...so i've draw one more time another character.
Soon the thumbnails of the animation.

...now walking!

2010-06-14T02:28:00.000-07:00

The next creature i will animate

2010-06-10T10:56:00.002-07:00

Overlapped Ogre

2010-06-10T10:56:00.001-07:00

A walking cycle (unfinished)

2010-06-09T11:06:00.001-07:00

next step overlapping!

Thanks for all Eric...we will wait for the next year!

2010-05-29T06:44:00.000-07:00

After very long time..i come back....

2010-05-27T23:13:00.001-07:00

Good morning everyone....in this months i was busy...looking for a job, In Italy the crisis are very heavy for animaion so i looking for other countries..if someone knows some studio looking forn character animator, please let me know at job@ranfanimation.com
ANYWAY! this afternoon i will show my portfolio and reel to ERIC GOLDBERG i'm pretty excited :-)
I hope can give me some tips..Eric are great artist and great man overall.
Thank you for all.
Here there are the new portfolio
http://www.datiranfagni.altervista.org/portfolio.pdf
and that's my new reel....

Thanks to everyone

11 SECONDS MARCH CONTEST

2010-03-31T13:26:00.000-07:00

Also for this month have entered my animation

Wolviee

2010-03-16T09:33:00.001-07:00

Concept for march 11seconds

2010-03-01T03:11:00.001-08:00

Playing with Mypaint

2010-02-28T23:00:00.000-08:00

Another concept done with Mypaint

11 SECONDS FEBRUARY CONTEST

2010-02-28T02:39:00.000-08:00

One more 11seconds :-)
I'me very satisfactly by this animation

Concept sketch done with Mypaint

2010-02-23T06:55:00.000-08:00

Mypaint is a freeware software very good for making cocept art..and as told you..is for free.
For me are better then Photoshop and Sketchbook for the simulation of tools....
Download here :-)
http://download.gna.org/mypaint/mypaint-0.8.0-win32-installer.exe
Rock you!!

visual concept for February

2010-02-01T09:43:00.001-08:00

january contest of 11second and research for february...

2010-02-01T09:18:00.001-08:00

the january contest are finish and as you can see below i think to the contest of february..a romantic history.."FIRST DATE"

But January for 11seconds are in wip....

2010-01-02T02:03:00.000-08:00

the concept for january 2010 for 11seconds....Are a dialogue from "BROTHER WHERE ART THOU" one of my favourites movies...
Thanks to the staff of 11SECONDS to sharing this great masterpiece...

DECEMBER 11 SECONDS

2010-01-02T02:02:00.001-08:00

A very good end of year!!!thanks to all! and a very good 2010

MERRY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

2009-12-22T10:47:00.000-08:00

The work goes on...

2009-12-18T00:23:00.000-08:00

a kind of pre-mounted...
always to correct the issues on the hand at first scene...

Thumbtest for December....

2009-12-08T01:20:00.000-08:00

I must correct the timing on the forst scene..i find i must use more violence when do it mad chess....
And also softening up the hand when does the first anticipation back...anyway the rest are thumbnailized..so now i must animate :-) waiting for comments

DECEMBER 11 SECONDS

2009-12-02T02:45:00.001-08:00

Animatic for this month the characters and the animatic.

Romeo and Spyke

2009-11-30T07:43:00.000-08:00

FINALLY i've finish the 11seconds for this month......
I've try to be carefuoll on acting of characters and i've try to find a story to tell, not only a simple animation.
The labrador of my neighborhood and the labrador of my mother are been my muses.....

11second november

2009-11-04T08:56:00.000-08:00

I've drawing this character for the new competition of this month...

11 second for October: Bearlusconi

2009-11-02T13:49:00.000-08:00

REEL 2009

2009-10-21T10:05:00.001-07:00

Character for 11 Second October

2009-10-16T12:02:00.000-07:00

For this month i try to animate this character...

Linetest:commercial

2009-10-11T10:42:00.000-07:00

ARMANDO

2009-10-02T00:00:00.000-07:00

Character for a commercial

A character i've drawn for a commercial.

Soon the animation

Competition for september entered!

2009-09-30T18:16:00.001-07:00

also for tonight i will sleep few minutes....

PUSH THE BUTTON

2009-09-24T04:22:00.001-07:00

Today i would push the button to reset all....

Prereel

2009-09-23T15:35:00.000-07:00

Prereel from gabriele ranfagni on Vimeo.

a kind of preview..i must finish some animation to inbeetwens and adjust stopmotion section...

Retake of posetest september

2009-09-20T03:25:00.000-07:00

thanx to guys of 11seconds for give me toughs ;-)

DEFINITIVE POSETEST FOR SEPTEMBER

2009-09-18T10:52:00.000-07:00

i must adjust some moving holds and inbeetwen it.....

upgrade for contest

2009-09-14T10:38:00.000-07:00

Upgrade of September contest :11 secondsclub

2009-09-10T01:30:00.001-07:00

Overlapping: deeply analyze

2009-09-09T01:41:00.000-07:00

have begin to use linux with MYPAINT a opensource wonderfull software that's have replaced Sketchbook Pro in my art concept and sketch...wonderfull...and overall free...

a first rough

2009-09-04T07:36:00.000-07:00

I'm really satisfied about :-)

The characters of september competition

2009-09-01T10:14:00.001-07:00

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Creato con il rivoluzionario client e-mail di Opera:
http://www.opera.com/mail/

and the competition of september are ready...first thumbtest!!!

2009-09-01T10:11:00.001-07:00

My august competition for 11 seconds are finish..now we will waiting...

2009-09-01T10:09:00.000-07:00

http://www.ranfanimation.com/video/august2009.mov

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Creato con il rivoluzionario client e-mail di Opera:
http://www.opera.com/mail/

my 11 seconds competition....i hope to have enough time to finish!!!

2009-08-28T02:19:00.000-07:00

Videosketching on the beach...

2009-08-22T12:57:00.000-07:00

Sketch again!!

2009-08-22T12:43:00.000-07:00

Again..All the drawings are take it with my nokia..That's a good lens.
Tomorrow i will post the drawing of today but there are another post to
write it :-)

--
Creato con il rivoluzionario client e-mail di Opera:
http://www.opera.com/mail/

Ten days after....

2009-08-22T11:45:00.000-07:00

I try for the first time to send a post with my mobile trough the account
of gmail..
This ten days i've drawing too much
Here i will try to post all the drawing i've done but will be very
long..so i follow from the last time :-)
Sketch on the beach

2009-08-13T11:26:00.000-07:00

IN THIS DAYS I'VE TAKEN SOME DAY OF RELAX ON THE COAST OF TUSCANY.
OF COURSE I'VE TO WORK THE SAME FOR A SERIES OF STORYBOARD TO COMPLETED FOR THE FIRST HALF OF SEPTEMBER..SO MY PLAN FOR EVERYDAY AS:
WAKE UP 6:30
BREAKFAST
A LONG WALKING ON THE BEACH OF ABOUT 6 KM WITH MY GIRLFRIEND MERJ
9:30 COME BACK TO HOME WHERE I WORK TILL 18:00
18:00 21:00 ON THE BEACH WHERE I DO IT MY FAVOURITE EXERCISE..SKETCH
THIS IS THE FIRST POST WITH THIS SKETCHS..NOW I GO TO DINNER :-)

11 seconds competition half and half...

2009-08-11T09:02:00.000-07:00

SOME WALLPAPERS TO DOWNLOAD

2009-08-08T05:33:00.000-07:00

I've makes some wallpaper of my works to download
The image are the set of four wallpapers; do you can download all here:
LINK
ENJOY!

11 SECONDS COMPETITION FIRST POSETEST (no overlapping no secondary no moving holds)

2009-08-06T01:10:00.000-07:00

anyone have idea because cut me the last part of video??? so anyway this are posetest..i will try to find the solution when i will post the pencil test....

MY FIRST COMPETITION OF 11 SECONDS

2009-08-05T10:09:00.000-07:00

a quick thumbtest of this character for my first competition of 11 SECONDS

OLD POST IT DRAWING (about 2006...)

2009-08-04T23:18:00.000-07:00

PEARL JAM MOMENT....

2009-08-04T11:04:00.000-07:00

I've finish to listen just now all the discography of Pearl Jam..
Great Eddie...

11:APPEAL

2009-08-03T23:36:00.000-07:00

Appeal are the "charisma" of character...his personality, his background..his history.
The appeal are given by several things:
Design,attitude,shapes and every information can be help the audience to understand well the nature of character.

Advanced sketch

2009-08-02T02:11:00.000-07:00

10:SOLIDITY OF DRAWING

2009-07-27T00:22:00.000-07:00

When you do ita animation don't drawing...SCULPTS.
You must do it a solid drawing, remember where the lines are curves and when solid objects overaly on others.(as the nose for example).
We will seeing a correct anatomycal construction for animator in the next tutorials so we can seeing the way to give "solidity" to your characters.

Star Trek Tribute

2009-07-25T15:08:00.001-07:00

Before to sleep iìve do it this little tribute to Star Trek..

9:EXAGGERATION

2009-07-25T02:28:00.000-07:00

As we have seen in the animation one of the most important thing to remember are to create contrast to helps audience to understand well what's happens.
So exaggerates are one way to create contrast..
If you give a look to sample above the same drawing are exaggerate (left) and normal(right).
The pose on left are clearly hungry..the pose on the right are ambiguos...
Please always exaggerate, a emotion, a pose, an arc...but be carefull, don't exaggerate everything, cause the scene can be reads by audience as "distorce".
Always use your sense of balance.
Balance are the heart of any art.

8:TIMING

2009-07-25T01:00:00.000-07:00

Timing are the thing makes difference between a good animation and a bad animation...
You can have good drawings, wonderfull arcs, sweet overlappings..but if you haven't timing, the animation are bad..
Timing are strictly linked to x-sheet and the use of charts...of course slow in and slow out are part of timing.
When i animate i try to imagine a kind of musical rhythm....
music..pause..music...
The pause are important....the pause are everywhere...a music, a sing without pause are flat,boring..try to give rhythm to your animation and you will give life....

SAMPLE OF SECONDARY ACTION

2009-07-23T00:56:00.001-07:00

7:SECONDARY ACTIONS

2009-07-23T00:30:00.000-07:00

The secondary action as an animation wich are necessary to underlines the primary action.
THE SECONDARY ACTION ARE NOT THE OVERLAPPING AND THE FOLLOW-TROUGH
A character enter in the stage walking and stops (master pose) are very worried... (i think are the singer of a band, before the test for x-factor)
On this pose the animator developped other animations called SECONDARY ACTIONS to increases the mood of the character.
The finger taps nervous on the table...the expression are really in panic.
Usually when i've done the full master animation (without overlapping and secondary action)i taking one more time the animation and on the master pose WHERE I INDICATE SECONDARY ACTION i begin to drawing secondary action (also the moving hold are considered a sort of secondary action but i will talking about...)

SAMPLE ARCS

2009-07-22T01:57:00.001-07:00

6: ARCS

2009-07-22T00:58:00.000-07:00

ARCS:
The arcs are fundamental to makes ORGANIC ACTION.
The bone's junction are based on pivot, so WHEN A OBJECT ARE FIXED ON A PIVOT AND ROTATES ON HIM there always an arc.
All the actions are based on arcs.
When we must rough an animation, infact, i talking always about FLIPPING ON 3 POSES.
because drawing a poses and flipping the precedents two give THE CORRECT PATH OF AN ARC.
To causes CONTRAST (the contrast remember are the way to understanding the action!)
please working on opposited arcs.
IN OTHER WORDS WHEN YOU DRAWING AN ANIMATION TRY TO FOLLOW A ARC ON AN ACTION; AND THE OPPOSITED ARC ON THE NEXT ACTION.
Arc:

SAMPLE SLOW IN AND SLOW OUT

2009-07-21T00:43:00.000-07:00

5:SLOW IN and SLOW OUT

2009-07-21T00:37:00.001-07:00

SLOW IN and SLOW OUT:
This rule are very important cause cause the slow in and the slow out gives at the animation fluidity and naturalness.
Normally we can operate on two ways to makes slow effect;
With the spacing and with the timing:
SPACING
If we adjust more drawings at the begin of an action and more drawings at the end of an action do we have slow in and slow out;
As we can see on the pic above the chart are stuctured in this way..
When an action begin and an action finish?An action involved in an animation are gived by the arc used for the animation.
When begin the arc there are the begin of an action, when finish this arc there will be the end of the action.
TIMING
If we operate with the timing we gived 2 on the x-sheet at the begin of the action, 1 in the middle and 2 at the end of the action.
That's are the way used by the old Disney's animators.
THE GOOD WAY
Anyway the better way are to combined the 2 methods.
The spacing where adjust more drawing, and the timing.
That's will give you a better fluidity, and overall a good timing without compromised the action

SAMPLE OVERLAPPING AND FOLLOW TROUGH

2009-07-20T11:13:00.000-07:00

4:OVERLAPPING E FOLLOW TROUGH

2009-07-20T10:12:00.000-07:00

Overlapping and follow trough are the physical reactions gived by an action..
In other words EVERY ACTION CAUSES A FOLLOW TROUGH AND A OVERLAPPING on the parts attached at the body as the hars, a cap, etc...We called this parts "appendices"
Analyzes this two rules:
FOLLOW TROUGH:
When the appendices follows the arcs and the action lines of the animation, this process, are called FOLLOW TROUGH.
Please looking at the sample above.
OVERLAPPING

When the action finish, there are a late of this stop beetwen the various appendices.
This late where the ACTION OF THE APPENDICES FINISH AFTER THE POINT OF STOP OF THE TOTAL BODY, are called OVERLAPPING

posetest of Lynda

2009-07-18T10:51:00.000-07:00

http://www.ranfanimation.com/video/lyndaposetest.mov

That's are the mov

3:STAGING

2009-07-18T00:58:00.000-07:00

The staging are the position of character on the screen, the composition of scene.
Also staging can be considereed the clearity of silouhette.
The staging are very important cause a good composition in the scene cause a better understanding of the animation by the audience...
In the sample as we can see, there are a good silouhette and a bad silouhette.
In the bad the cup are invisible..the legs caused confusion...also in the bad composition, the character are half-cuts and are too big...

Sketch a character from your immagination

2009-07-17T10:18:00.001-07:00

2:ANTICIPATION

2009-07-17T00:59:00.000-07:00

Anticipation:
The anticipation of an action help the audience to understand the action...ergo, the action without anticipation can't be exist....
When you do it an animation you must think always "i must drawing this pose..so i need the CONTRARY FORCE of this pose.
One of the best samples are the baseball player..first to throws the ball charge the body over in the opposite force of the action...
As we can see also in that case we have creates CONTRAST
ANTICIPATION

1: SQUASH AND STRETCH

2009-07-16T00:27:00.000-07:00

This is the first rule of animation.
Squash and stretch are not only the deformation of the shape, but are also finding the right contrast beetwen the pose, a "closed" pose (squash) and a "open" pose (stretch).
The contrast are very important in the animation process cause
MORE CONTRAST=CLEAR READING
Squash and the stretch:

Animation Test for LOKY

2009-07-14T03:05:00.000-07:00

old characters..

2009-07-11T02:18:00.001-07:00

Dear old character...i've draw 9 years ago......so i will do it a animation test soon....

LYNDA THUMBTEST

2009-07-11T00:59:00.000-07:00

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE MOV
The thumbtest..the dialogue are from ELVIRA

GIRL's POWER..thumbtest of an animation

2009-07-11T00:40:00.000-07:00

this is the models of LYNDA i've done to do it a dynamical anatomycal animation:

SKETCHING A PORTRAIT

2009-07-11T00:38:00.000-07:00

SKETCH A DRESSED GIRL

2009-07-11T00:37:00.000-07:00

SKETCHING A DOG

2009-07-11T00:36:00.000-07:00

The labrador of my mother
RAISSA

CHARACTER FOR A TV SPOT

2009-07-11T00:35:00.002-07:00

CHARACTERS FOR A TV SPOT : ROY

2009-07-11T00:35:00.001-07:00

MUSHU

2009-07-11T00:34:00.000-07:00

Tirth step: DRAWING and TIMING

2009-07-11T00:26:00.000-07:00

This is not only the tirth step..infact there are other step to follows, thi is the final rough animation with overlapping and secondary actions...
But i will show you in some future posts....
The step to follow are anyway:
Drawing the primary animation
TEST
Drawing the overlapping with his secondaru actions
TEST
Drawing secondary actions
TEST
Drawing secondary actions
TEST
till you are not satisfyed you must adjust secondary actions to improve the details of your animation.
When you've done NOW by the x-sheet you can takes the right charts for your key animation..remember are not only the space between two drawing gives the SLOW IN and SLOW OUT but also the TIMING so...when you fills the x-sheet please REMEMBER to put 2 frames in the slow in and slow out and 1 frame in the rest of animation.....

second step....LET's YOUR EMOTIONS BRINGS YOURSELF

2009-07-11T00:20:00.000-07:00

in the second step i've drawing all the key necessary to "link" between the thumbs created before, WITHOUT overlapping and secondary animation..i concentrates overall on:
Squash and stretch
Anticipation
Arcs
Exageration
and TIMING...
When i've do it the pose test THE X-SHEET MUST BE ALMOST THE FINAL COMPILATION.
So testing just you didn't find the GOOD TIMING FOR YOUR ANIMATION!

First step...PLANNING!

2009-07-11T00:16:00.000-07:00

Planning your animation! this is the first step..do it a thumb test...
In that case i've start with a dialogue so when i've do it the thumbnails i'm based myself on the phrase's division...so the footage have been taken by the phrases directly..
I've do it a first x-sheet....

the traditional way...

2009-07-11T00:13:00.001-07:00

today where are lost in the sea of pixels...i'me a fan of my tablet pc..a tx2025el..i loves PAP 4.0 or Flipbook..i'm going crazy to think i can animate everywhere..but anyway..the traditional way.have always a good taste..
I've use the "old" technics of animation.
The light of table are off..my reference are ONLY flipping everyway.....
This is a demo of my technics :-)

How capture a models..lifedrawing

2009-07-11T00:05:00.000-07:00

Grabs the model...takes the forces of the lines..improve your skylls...

Come back...

2009-07-11T00:01:00.000-07:00

Good morning to everybody...
Today i've take one more time in my hands my animation blog.
Pheraps i've dreaming something wrong tonight...
Anyway.. i will post my stuff and some tutorials.
If you want to contact me please leave your e-mail in the comment :-)
LET's START US THE BLOG..after one year...

2008-07-03T15:15:00.000-07:00

ecco le mie prime animazioni in 3d..che pensate??? fatte ieri e oggi...un grazie a andrea romito...
Una nota...ho animato semplicemente, niente graph editor, solo il dope sheet per dare il giusto timing..il resto solo animazione :-)

Welcome to everyone in RANFANIMATION BLOG

2008-07-02T22:18:00.000-07:00

Welcome to everyone....i will post here my animation exercise, my reel, everything you can tips me......
Thank you