Face Animation practice

I had a day off today, so I wanted to do some animation practice. I haven't done too much work with squash and stretch in the face so I animated a little face changing expressions. This practice was really fun and taught me a lot about how stretchy the face can be.

I really miss having more time to animate like I used to before I started working. I was so immersed in this I really didn't notice the time just passing by. Hopefully I'll be able to do more soon.

Dreamweaver

I have the adobe creative suite 3 web premium, I only installed flash, illustrator, and photo shop at first. It wasn't until recently that I discovered that dreamweaver and fireworks were also part of the package. I installed them on my computer and have been tinkering around with dream weaver. It makes learning html much, much easier. Not just because I have a library of tags or that I can use the auto fill options. I'm happy simply because I can check my work as I go. Before I would have to type out my code in note pad, then open it up in my browser to see if it worked. Now I can just write the code and see how it looks visually in the same program.

Life Drawing Day 1

Ok, instead of using artsyposes.com I used a different site that suit my needs a little better.

Theres a life drawing tool at pixelovely.com that worked out perfectly. I drew for an hour. The first few were 30 seconds each, the last few were from 1 - 2 mintues each.

I want to practice doing the layout for the body faster and better. I still feel a little rusty, but it felt nice to draw like that again.

I'll do another practice again tonight and post more pictures tomorrow.

Animation Lessons! Step 1

So I've been lurking around on JohnK's blog and have been really intrested in getting his advice on how to become better, he likes to refer to the Preston Blair book and thankfully I have it! I'm going to start from the very beginning and learn classic principles. I'm going to start tonight and post what I've done tomorrow!