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31 mars 2009

line tests

Here i put a few line tests (animation drafts) i made in my animation course at Paris Ateliers with the advice of the teacher Markus Roger. it's just the bases of animation, and i didnt make a personal thing i'd really call "animation" yet (but soon!), cause i prefer to know the bases before. these line tests are my favourite ones, i didnt put the walk/run and some other bases.

chien

chat

cheval

dragon

dragonfly

totoro

i wanted to put a less basic one, but it's too big. i've to find a better way to put videos on this blog anyway.

I got a nice question about how the poor animators give life to drawings, and so i'll teach stuff to those who dont know nothing about animation.

the dog exercise above is a nice example. here i drew the dog 8 times on 8 different papers, with a slight change on each one of them. then i took a photo (or scanned) each drawing in the righ order, and used a computer program which will show each drawing very fast on the screen. it creates the illusion of movement.

to give you an idea of the "slight changes" i did, here is the images of the dog, walking and running, from my Preston Blair book. i used the example for my dog.  preston_blair2

so animation is sooo simple!

luckily not! this dog is a basis. to each race of dog its proper way of walking and running, and to each animator his view of how it walks and runs!

here, from the same Preston Blair book, a variation of human walks  preson_blair (bases of course)

and here was poor innocent me, puting hairs on my horse. know that it was more difficult to make the hairs than to make the horse run. and i'm still not really satisfied.

the Totoro thing is called a turn around. it's usefull to know the size of your character well. the difficulty is that nothing must move up or down as you draw each drawing. what if one eye of my totoro was going up and down? the second difficulty is to keep your character right on the same axes. i didnt know about this difficulty before seeing the top of my totoro move a milimeter right from the place it should have been!

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