Drawing- 12th December

Hands was the subject of todays session. we started off with 30 second quick drawings, these weren't my best drawings. we then did one line drawings and had to draw circles where the knuckles were.

Next we did two rotation of a single hand pose, this is where my hand drawing began to improve

after the break we did a rotation of two hands interlocking, this is where things got confusing. for the last drawing (the hand shaped like a bull horn) we had to pose our own non drawing hand over the person next to us and we had to draw the hand that was above us, the stitch looking (pic 1 middle bottom) line is a hand I decided to start again on.

Drawing- 5th December

Todays session had the model standing high on top of a table whilst we looked up at him from our chairs, This was so that we could draw some high angle poses.

 wasn't able to finish this on time

this one too

Decided to simplify the grid by only taking a few measurements

Whilst we had the model high up, we took this as an opportunity to draw feet from different angles.

 this is a foot from the back

Drawing- 28th November 2014

This session was more of a free lesson, as rather than have a task to do we instead took turns telling the model what to do and how the model should be lighted up. we could also draw how we wanted to.
This lesson was to incorporate the other work we are doing, so we posed the model based on that idea.

The pose was the one I requested, it's ti help with one of my keyframes of a rugby player kicking a ball, I also took pictures so that I have a clearer reference.

And the rest

Drawing- 21st November 2014

In this lesson, we drew the model several times and had the poses interlock with each other. we had three to four minutes for the full body drawings and one minute for drawings that were just limbs, these drawings were to fill in the gaps

close ups

Tom asked us multiply the images to fill a whole page in photoshop. He asked us to add things to the pictures as well

Heres how it looks when multiplyed

When a dark overlay is added, the poses looks more like a pile of dead bodies

Seeing this many people close together reminded me of a wheres wally puzzle

the real Wally is hidden in the below image, can you find him?

Drawing: 14th November

Todays session had us elevate our easels to a high point, we also had to stand on chairs. This was all so that we could draw the model whilst looking down. We did two rotations of two poses. We also had to grid off our drawing measurements. It's similar to how we measured heads, except we used different body parts such as arms and legs. We counted measurements for both the y and x axis (we usually just measure the y axis)

Animating two characters interacting

We had the task of animating two characters physically interacting with each other. I showed my finished version to Elroy, the tutor, he said that I should add in a bit where after the red guy catches the phone, he moves his hand back then slams it into the blue guy, in the original the red guy catches the phone then immediately hits the blue guy with it.

Elroy also asked us to make a dope sheet for the animations, I did mine digitally in word.

Page 1

Page 2

 Page 3

Story Board Workshop

In Ged Haney's story board workshop we were each given different stories and had to create a storyboard for them, this was the story I got:

Three cowboys are playing cards. Each appears suspicious of the other two. one pulls a hidden ace of spades from his sleeve, and puts it on the table. Another one pulls a hidden ace of spades from his sleeve, and puts it on the table. The third already had the ace of spades, unplayed, in his hand. He pulls a gun and shoots the other two..

And here is my storyboard interpretation for that story.

When I showed it to Ged, he said he like how i cut mid action on the part where bearded cowboy reaches for a card to show that it's his deck of cards in the next shot. He also said that I should have left the reveal that the moustache cowboy had an ace of spades until after he shoots the other two.