Sketch a character from your immagination

SKETCHING A PORTRAIT

SKETCH A DRESSED GIRL

SKETCHING A DOG

The labrador of my mother
RAISSA

Tirth step: DRAWING and TIMING

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

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!

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...

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

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