Flour Sack Animation Practice

I've been getting back into animating. I'm taking it slow and starting out simple so I won't get overwhelmed. My first project is animating a flour sack, and so far I've animated it doing a little jump:

I really want to work on my timing and anticipation this year, so please tell me what you think!

Blog Redesigned!

  I've been wanting to redesign my blog for the longest time now, and I've finally gotten down to doing it. I'm really happy with it so far. I changed the background and my logo. For reference, here's my old background image and logo:


 

From Regine Francois' Animation Blog

From Regine Francois' Animation Blog

I think it looks much more interesting now.

New Character Sketch

So, I haven't really created a new character in a while, a drew this sketch several month ago and didn't think too much of it. It wasn't until I showed it to my boyfriend that I decided to actually do something with her.I have sketches with her a few other poses, but I didn't have the time to scan them. I'm planning on doing a few animations with her, but first I'd like to color her in flash.

Lip Sync Rough 1

So here's a very rough animation for the lip sync that I'm working on:

Here's the transcript:

Voice One: "Well, what now?"

Voice Two: "He's just playing hardball. Lemme tell you how it's gonna go down. In a few minutes, we'll walk in there, we'll give him our demands, and then BAM! I start crying."

So far I'm having a blast working on it. Right now I'm working on making the toddler's reaction to the "BAM!" part bigger, a lot more shocked looking.

Pin Up Girl, wip

So, its been a while since I've actually posted anything, I've been a little busy lately but now I'm back. Right now I'm working on two little projects. One is a little illustration of a pin up girl. I saw an ad on a website and I saved the picture since it was so nice, I got bored and tried to recreate it in illustrator.

Here's a work in progress picture:

The reference picture is in the photo. I changed it so she's on a beach and leaning against a surfboard instead. I've been playing around with different brushes and creating a few custom ones for this picture.

My second project is a submission for the 11 second club. I started the project super late in the month, but I liked the audio clip so much that I'm going to continue working on it for practice. I'll post a rough of it as soon as I can.

Birthday Gift

I've been trying to get some motivation to start animating as much as I used to. Lately I've just been in kind of a slump. This week a friend of mine had a birthday, so I decided to create a picture for him. Its just a little fan art of anime/game series that he really likes. The little character is a bear that makes a lot of bear themed puns. It was a fun project, and it didn't take too much time to complete.

This was really fun and he really liked it. I put his name in the final version of the picture, but I'm placing it here without it.

My Little Pony Sketch

I'm a big fan of the new My Little Pony show, I really like the art style of it, and I really wouldn't mind working for that show.Today while sketching around I thought it would be neat to draw myself as a pony. It actually turned out pretty nice. I got the structure of the pony rather quickly and decided to add in some cute details.

I haven't quite picked out a "cutie mark" for myself quite yet. But I'm planning on doing a little ink and paint for her, so I'll think of a nice one.

I also had a lot of fun using markers for the outlines, I'm going to do it much more often now.