Character Head Sketches

 

ROADTRIP : TEASER VIDEO 2

My wife said I should turn this old storyboard into an animatic, so I made a start on it today:

Film studies with sharpie!

I'm trying to do these sketches pretty quickly, so I block in the shapes without much detail with red pencil, and then go in straight with sharpie and markers for shading. This is to force myself to create shorthands...something if you take more care in your drawings, may not happen as quickly.

Emerald Doodles

 Cleaning up my files, and stumbled on these doodles I did while I was working on a. show called "Emerald".

RE-DRAW: Calligraphy Brush

 So for experimentation I re-did my original thumbnail for this shot in ROADTRIP, and then cleaned it up with the calligraphy brush (budget style).

Original thumbnail: 

Re-drew using the calligraphy Brush. Clearer (Yes I think so...the smoothing intuit brush, forces you to draw with more commitment).

Clean up (still very loose/rough)

I then compared it to the original : 

So I think it could result in a faster boarding style (which is great in tv animation, it could also end up more dynamic). Only time will tell if I will incorporate this or not though :P)

STORYBOARD PRO: Calligraphy Brush

 I was looking at some rough storyboards by Alessandra Sorrentino and wanted to try and mimic a sort of brush that is similar to what she uses. I don't quite think I have it figured out :P But always good to think about finding new ways to shake up your process. Here was my effort at replicating it:

This is the level of detail in the first pass she showed, still very minimal line mileage but very expressive. I may try and match it in a test sequence.

As far as I can make it there is some slight transparency on the brush, so it needs to be a textured brush, so I edited one from a standard round brush.

and a couple of sketches of Bixie

ROADTRIP - Chapter 1 - Finished

 So I added some voices and audio and tweaked a couple of things to match, here's the final version.

I largely consider this a failure..who knows, maybe I'll warm to it later. But it's important to see things through they say, so at last I get a star for that! :P