Love Hate

Week-1.  

No I haven't seen Nightmare Before Christmas I don't know what you're on about guv...

It's supposed to look a bit cut out. It was actually an accident, but I think someone said once (and If they didn't I'm saying it now) that the best paintings are a series of accidents. It may have been my Art teacher at school that said that. Anyway, yes it was a good mistake, well I think it was.

Does it give you the willies?

Thumbnails. 

I've got other face designs but in the interest of quickness I chose that for the time being. Anyway, headed in the right direction. Gots to perfect the storyboard. 

How to draw a spooky knob;

obviously this is rough, but you get the idea.

Maybe you'll read to here and wonder why I am drawing spooky doorknobs. Well, this is why.

So the transcript for the bit i'm gonna animate is - 

"I hate round doorknobs, round doorknobs are kinda creepy, they're a little creepy, they're in horror films, you're watching a horror film and that round doorknob sorta twists and slowly opens and you're like 'ugh' don't do that" 

The Boy in the Flowerbed

Week-2.

The two above are older drawings that I've just reworked a bit. Everything below is new.

It's a greenhouse from the top (this is part of 6 drawings that'll make sense all together)

These first 3 are going to be used as mini-title pages. 

These three are the character pages. 

Obviously everything needs to be coloured and written up. Colouring is first on the menu. Next week environments (they're in progress) will be up.

Week-1.

There was once a garden. 

The most beautiful and bountiful garden any one had ever seen. 

There were bright purple orchids, tulips and violets.

Red peonies and sunny daffodils and a lawn so green.

 The garden was owned and kept by a sour old man 

Who only smiled when the flowers sang for water from his old green watering can. 

Then one day a dog, a creature crafty and playful by nature 

He crept into the garden whilst the old man was reading the paper. 

The dog loved to dig, and dig he did until he could dig no more. 

He dug deeper and deeper and deeper until his furry paws were sore.

When the old man looked he found the dog looking proudly at a freshly dug hole.

He scowled and frowned and began to yell at the dog 

When he saw the state of his grand prize perennial. 

The dog took turn and fled, but the man had a feeling 

He'd not seen the last of that dogs' shaggy grey head...

American Football Animation (cont. updates)

Basic storyboard for what'll happen. I will be animating this after I've handed in my Dissertation proper - so basically the 2nd half of the semester. 

I don't really know what to call it. Since this is basically a 10 second animated introduction to the Uni American Football team I play for, the Falmouth Tridents it doesn't really have a name. Anyway, so, this blog post (a long with The Boy in the Flowerbed post) is basically gonna stay like this and I'll update it and add to it as I do stuff, rather than posting endlessly. Less clutter then.

This is a rough look of what the short will look like. The style at least.

I'm laying it out like a book (there will be writing added on the pages). As of today (Saturday 12th) I've also keyframed out the 10 second thing, so I'll be inbetweening it and line testing it all this week. I'm going to work alternate days on this and the Boy in the Flowerbed and Love-Hate (alice's project). Anyway like I said this blog will be a rolling blog post and there's more drawings that will appear every other day or so.

What I want to have eventually is a graphic book of Football for Dummies. So there's a breakdown of the positions, the history of the AFL and NFL, the hall of fame, key players and a couple of pages for each team with the most impact players in recent memory and then the classical players (so for the Cowboys it would be a big picture of DeMarcus Ware and then smaller profiles of Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, Randy White, Bullet Bob Hayes, etc etc), and the rules, and famous games and moments and of course NFL films. Obviously I have a shit load more drawing and digital painting to do.

So the pictures on these pages are a bit randomly organized at the minute but that's the direction I'm going in with this. It'll be a long term thing that I'll continue after my degree.

Falmouth Tridents! Yay! 

(these pictures were taken by friends on the photography course.)

FOOTBALL.

(Took me 2 and a half hours but maybe by best realistic one yet?)

Cam Newton, Quarterback

Carolina Panthers

2010 - Present

Welcome to the NFL.

So this is my little side project. Football. I'm going to make a rotoscoped and animated short film like the films made by NFL films (or go to the NFL and all the videos on their are made by either NFL Total Access or NFL films). It'll be at least a couple of minutes long, I've done a few tests (rolling uploads on this post) and I can do about 5 seconds in a couple of hours because the style is real loose. I basically whack the tiffs into photoshop because I don't have TVP Paint on my laptop.

I've done more finished drawings/digital paintings mainly for pleasure more than anything else, but they also serve as concept artwork. The actual animated drawings aren't this precisely done.

I'm working on some ones with atmosphere in them such as snow (just trying to find good pictures) so keep a look out.

Joe Montana ("Joe Cool", "Golden Joe"), Quarterback

San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs

1979 - 1994

Hall of Fame class of 2000

(if you're at all interested in Football - start by knowing who Golden Joe is)

Barry Sanders, Running Back

Detroit Lions

1989 - 1998

Hall of Fame class of 2004

Because pictures don't explain how amazing Barry Sanders was.

Jerry Rice, Wide Receiver
San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks
1985 - 2004
 Hall of Fame class of 2010.

Deacon Jones, ("The Secretary of Defense"), Defensive End
L.A./St.Louis Rams, San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins
1961 - 1974
Hall of Fame class of 1980

Walter ("Sweetness") Payton, Running Back

Chicago Bears

1975 - 1987

Hall of Fame class of 1993

John Elway, Quarterback

Denver Broncos

1983 - 1998

Hall of Fame class of 2004

Ray Rice; Running Back

Baltimore Ravens

2008 - present.

Side note; Ray Rice and Barry Sanders are 5ft8, Maurice Jones-Drew is 5ft7, Darren Sproles (coming) is 5ft6. - proof you don't have to be a 6ft6 monster to play in the NFL.

(got this one down to about 12 minutes)
Maurice Jones-Drew ("Pocket Heracles"), Running Back
Jacksonville Jaguars
2006 - Present

Brett Favre, Quarterback

Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings

1991 - 2010

Marcus Allen; Running Back

Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs

1982 - 1997

Hall of Fame class of 2003

DeMarcus Ware ("B-Ware"), Outside Linebacker

Dallas Cowboys 

2005 - Present

Ed Reed, Free Safety (coming out of the tunnel before a game)

Baltimore Ravens

2002 - Present

Joe Thomas, Offensive Tackle

Cleveland Browns

2007 - Present

Warren Sapp ("The QB Killa") Defensive Tackle

Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders

1995 - 2007

Bruce Smith Defensive End

Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins

1985 - 2003

Hall of Fame class of 2009. 

Keenan Clayton, Linebacker

Philadelphia Eagles

2010 - present

Charles ("Mean Joe") Greene, Defensive Tackle

Pittsburgh Steelers

1969 - 1981

Hall of Fame class of 1987.

Walter Jones, Offensive Tackle

Seattle Seahawks

1997 - 2009 

Calvin ("Megatron") Johnson, Wide Receiver 

Detroit Lions

2007 - Present

Andre Johnson Wide Receiver

Houston Texans 

2003 - Present

Charles Woodson , Cornerback

Oakland Raiders and Green Bay Packers

1998 - Present

Chad Ochocinco, Wide Receiver

Cincinnati Bengals, New England Patriots

2001 - Present

(Not a lot of drawing more photo manipulation) 

Justin Tuck, Defensive End

New York Giants

2005 - Present

(this one is taken from a still from the Madden NFL game which is why he looks a bit...special)

Ryan Fitzpatrick, Quarterback 

St. Louis Rams, Cincinnati Bengals, Buffalo Bills

2005 - Present

(this is also taken from a still of Madden NFL)

Jaylun Foster, Defensive End

Buffalo Bills

He's actually a made up player (one of the Madden created Rookies that you can draft in the game)

So anyway, these are some of the posters I've created for the team I play on at the University, the Falmouth Tridents, using the above techniques. 

Player - Ray Lewis , Linebacker

Baltimore Ravens 1996 - present

Player - Jonathan Vilma, Linebacker

New York Jets, New Orleans Saints

2004 - Present

Player - Deion Sanders, Cornerback

Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins Baltimore Ravens

1990 - 2005

Hall of Fame class of 2011

This is what the video is going to look like ; (apologies for poor quality but I don't have premier on this computer yet) It's rotoscoped, the final thing will be a mix of rotoscope and pure animation (like the below clip is)