Time to animate!

Granny has a problem! Her dead ancestors are coming over for tea and Jasper (her dog) has made a mess! Jump over Jasper's mess without dropping the tea and get to the guests before they realise what a dumb idea for a game this would be! It's animation time! :)

All lame jokes aside, I will be animating this as the first in a series of animations for my reel.

Tutorial: Harry Partridge Animation Guide

Just stumbled on this animation tutorial for beginners by Harry Partridge. Fun ways to learn are always good to share right?
There are 8 episodes all together:

A tale of Pigs : Part Deux + Steps

I'm a bit annoyed with myself for not knowing when to stop. Haha, what started as a sketch ended up as a pretty much finished character illustration. I included a pretty high res version below of the final image:

I don't know how useful it is but I also included some progress shots. If anybody would ask me how to do this, I would say one thing: Patience... And that's one thing I really don't have :P

earlier today I also did the drawing beneath. It was an experiment where I was dabbing a low opacity brush. You need lots of patience, but the texture is quite nice. I think it's probably better to be used for certain elements, not an entire painting. It kinda looks like the images you'd see on very old cookieboxes.

A Tale of Pigs + Step by Step

I was bust looking for jobs, freaking out about not having work, doing some commissions and watching E3 last week. But this week I decided to go full throttle again and draw from the moment I get up until I go to sleep. I'll do that for 5 days and then maybe take the weekend off if I feel I need to.

Unfortunately I also have a few job interviews lined up, so it'll eat away my spare time so we'll see what we end up doing. Since I finished a few commissions, I can now work on some animations...

But for this evening I did some sketching and took the digital brush out for a ride.

1) Pig Sketch

A- The WIP on my current progress:

B- Let's travel through time to see how we got here! Here are the flat colors.
C- This is the lineart (not really cleaned up properly though, but it's a sketch for a reason)

D- The original rough sketch. I love this drawing a lot more than the clean up. I just lose a lot when I go to clean up. Something I need to work at!

E- This is the initial sketch where I drew the main ideas and volumes before I flesh things out.

2) Missing piglet!

As you can see from the initial sketch, I got rid of the little pig. So I gave him some prime time on his own:

3) Did some work on a background. The reason I share this is because you can see I was going a totally wrong direction and then..you need to just be able to start over again. I cleaned up the shapes and laid in the foundations for the final painting.

A- Current rework:

B- What is was before. There's a few things to like in this, but the perspective is wrong, the tones don't describe depth correctly, etc...

Late Night sketch

It's been a while since I did some digital painting. Pretty random:

Turnaround

Full color sheet:

Lineart:

Flats:

Turnaround : Granny

Here's the turnaround for one of the main characters for the comic I am working on, also might want to take her into animation in the next couple of weeks.