Walk Cycle ideas

Our next animation assignment is the walkcycle, so I started to do some conceptual thinking about what I would animate.

This is a study of the movement of pelvis and shoulders in the walk:



Character concept 1:






Character concept 2:







Character Cycle test drawings:

Whip it some more

Whip animation from Dave Dekeyser on Vimeo.

Illustration

I couldnt decide if I wanted to have a nap or do some work for colege,
and luckily I decided to do some work and I colored my pencil drawing for illustration.
I haven't really come close to digital painting for a while, because I still don't know jack about color, but I think this turned out pretty cool.

Version 1:
The painting as done in photoshop without tweaks



Version 2:
I tried to get the full attention to the fish and the glowing candy,
and desaturated the witch-fish-thing. Don't know if it works any better though...

Whip done

Here's the final action for the whip, I will draw some details on it, but the animation is pretty much finished

Whip from Dave Dekeyser on Vimeo.

Hansel & Grettel Pencil Illustration

I think we have to hand in a colored piece for the assignment, so this will just act as a tonal study, I'll have to do it digital though to get the result I want, because I don't even have brushes for an acrylic.

Hansel & Grettel IV

Again change of idea...just was realising the similarities between this story and that crazy lure fish in the depth of the oceans, so turned them into fish for this one.
These are some studies, hopefully I'll come up with the final piece tonight.



I really can't watercolor to save my life, but as I've learned from my daily sketchblog, practice makes skill! I think I need to work harder then other artists to who it all just comes natural, or maybe it just seems like that...

Hansel & Grettel III

I'm trying to plan out the colors for this composition,
but I don't know enough about color. I want this to go from a cold blue/green
to warm colors (you know, the candy colors)...

tonal sketch:



color sketch:



original:



watercolor sketch: