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.

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Inspired Character

 Last weekend while hanging out with my boyfriend we started watching PBS because we were bored, a show called "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" was on. I thought the show was really cute, but what really caught my eye was the design of the characters:

I really like the different textures and the other little details like the lines of their eyes and mouths. I got inspired to make my own little character that could fit into that world:

My idea is a little ferret that is into playing sports. I want to take him into illustrator and color him in the same way. This project should be interesting. I'm already seeing a lot of things I'll have to do like finding or creating fur like textures and using the mesh tool and gradients a lot. I've done a character similar to that style before in flash, but I'm going to use illustrator since it should be better for this project.

I'll post updates on him as I work on it!

HTML: Day 1

Its only the first day of learning html, but so far I really like it. I'm finding it to be really simple to understand. I tried to learn it years ago when I was still in grade school, so most of the basic terms are familiar to me. I can create a simple web page now with a heading, paragraphs, links to other websites, and pictures. I learned all that in about an hour and thirty minutes. Imagine what I can learn if I keep going for a few months. Here's how it turned out:

Like I said before its really, really basic but everything worked fine. Even the link. I'm going to learn more advanced html, but I'm taking my time to understand the basics before just adding random tags and attributes all over the place without knowing what I'm doing.

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.

Life drawing

I've decided to start life drawing more regularly. There are a number of places I could go to do life drawing but since I lack the transportation I can't go to them.

I found a website that offers life drawing model and a timer to practice life drawing skills. It should work for the time being, but I would really like to go to actual life drawing events soon.

http://www.artsyposes.com/

I'm going to post what I've drawn tomorrow.

Assignment 1-more on egg shape

So I worked more on lesson 1, I'm having so much fun doing the first lesson that I'm forgetting that I have to start moving on soon. I can't wait to start the next lesson.

Here's what I've done since yesterday:









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Name change!

So I was thinking about changing the name of my blog to something shorter that will be easier to type in. My whole name is kinda long, and when you add in the .blogspot part, it makes it even longer so I'm going to go with something a little shorter, and slightly more catchy. Probably RegineFAB. Not FAB for fabulous, but for Francois Animation Blog.

I like it.

So I've been looking at what other people have been doing with the first Preston Blair lesson and I think I might be doing it wrong. Everyone else is actually trying to duplicate the example heads given, so I'll get on that this afternoon so that I can be sure that I get the lesson before moving on to squash and stretch.

I do have a question about it though.

Squashing and Stretching of the head seems to work best when the head is made in two parts, a smaller oval shape and a larger shape beneath it. Preston Blair says that the cranium doesn't move but the jaw does. If I draw my heads as regular circles, where is my jaw?

Assignment #1-2

OK, so I haven't been able to finish up my egg shape practice the way I want to because of my schedule, but I plan to practice a bit more then start on lesson 2. I can't wait because I haven't been able to do squash and stretch of the face on my own. It always look off when I try it. But for now this is what I have, hopefully I'll be able to post a little more soon.

Preston Blair Assignment #1

Ok, so I was so excited about doing the Preston Blair exercises that I did it on my way home on the train. I got about 3 pages worth of head construction practice.

Feedback would be awesome!

*Notes-When I go home tonight, I'll practice the egg shape a bit more and post what I've
done tomorrow!*


ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 1