Ok... getting a little paranoid.

I said I'd upload my character colouring video and such, but now I'm worrying about the creative commerce licences... or, whatever licence it is. The final product for this video has high expectations and I'm unsure of just how much exactly I can upload for your viewing pleasure... sooooo, I have the speed painting video on line and the post promised saved to the drafts,  but until I find out more I'm afraid it will be kept on the shelf, so to speak.

Soz guys. But, I have another pretty picture of a flower I took...
Not Photo edited by the by.

Not good enough? Gosh, you're hard to please. Ok, I drew this, and its only half finished, the other week. This is just so I can take a break from the computer once in a while but still keep my dawing skills up there.... with ... this guy..>

 

Here we go! Plz Excuse phone photo quality. 

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I made a little somit fo' Dusk...

                                                                   Its birthday time!

So I made a little introductory video for my buddie ol' pal. Dusk. You can find her wonderful blog here. Its so pretty and I love to read and see what she writes about.

Dusk darling is also her title for her video blog, and a couple months ago, (when I was craving  such one  of these videos)  I thought wouldnt it be nice, for when she does her next video if she had a little animated title screen. SO! birthday time = gift.

So TAA!

Looking though some pics...

Found a picture of this... picture I drew a year or so ago. And Instead of stopping when I should have, I carried adding layers to it and I feel I
ruined it. 

I don't even know where the original is actually.... otherwise I'd show you what I mean. darn,

 ANYWAY! Thought I'd put this up here because, at this point in the picture I really like it. So I share, naturally.

What do you think, should I recreate this  in oils? I am still taking my fine art classes... but they prefer to draw from life.  In my own time then! yeh?


Let me know if you have ever gone O.T.T on any of your pictures and how you overcome the problem. Maybe  (if I find the pic) it could be salvaged.

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Back so soon?

Naturally! Since I'm now approaching my compositing stage in my music production video. Its all happening now.

So what progress have I made? Well, today I am finishing off my cartoon characters. As I only had two months to create this project, I decided not to go full whack and instead animate with 2D multi layer characters and rig it all up in AE.

I like to sketch my drawings by hand in a sketchbook before I put them into Photoshop.  So I started there, scanned those puppies in, outlined them using the pen tool then I coloured my characters parts in.

You can see the side views parts here, hope it demonstrates clearly how it works.

I did this with ALL of the peacock pieces, long, but defiantly worth it. Have  look and let me know what you think. 

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Next I will show you my other character Charjan, perhaps I'll have a movie of it instead....

More puppets!

LAAAA!!!!!

In addition to the prep piece I made below from water based clay, (this stuf cracks up by the by if you dont treat it or make your model secure, BEWARE! =3)

I also made my puppets from URO clay, which can be used to create cute things such as Dolls house appliances e.t.c, or like how I did, for puppets!




So where did I begin? Exactly where  I should, with the armature!
 I measured my wire against my planed drawing, spliced the wires and then added all of my nuts and bolts and such. I think if you consider yourself fairly adept, you should find your own way of doing your puppets. And learn from your successes and fails , its a large part of learning and improving your skills.

I found CESAR DACOL JR particularly useful when doing my research on armatures. 

After gluing, twisting, mulching and swearing,  I began to mix then model my clay beginning with the head and implanting the eyes.  

I continued to manipulate my clay to the way I wanted it for my characters.

Here are a couple of stages within my modelling so you can see my process, if it helps.

 And finally they were finished. They move and everything. Here they are ready for filming on my un-made set.

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