shot 2 blocking

Shot 2. Lunch arrives.

toads1blocking*

I'm finally animating! I had to very consciously make myself stop tweaking and begin animating. I can tweak and nit-pick with the best of them, but I need some practice animating. So here is a first-pass blocking render of the first shot. Isn't it exciting?

You will notice that the toad just "jumps" from one place to another. Right now I have simply blocked out the action with rough timing. I think  I will try to make myself block in the entire project before I do any "real" animation. I am not doing an storyboards for this project, so I'll really be discovering a lot of the action as I block the shots. I don't want to get bogged down in detail of animating just yet.

*toad project shot 1 blocking pass

Crunchy!

Whoa! Than looks Crunchy!

Here's a WIP and a bit of a spoiler. From this you should be able to gather what this short project is about.

Project Attention Deficit Disorder

Yes, I am starting a new project. I will pick up on the previous one (or at least use the models I created) sometime down the road. But I want to do some animation, and the project I had in mind with the fisherman and the pterosaurs required too much setup and prop building. I am going to try and focus on something simple (two characters) and very animation based. It will be a chase between this toad and his intended lunch.

New art direction 2

I worked on the smaller pterosaur today. I'm already much happier with him. I liked him before...now I like him a lot! I am taking this in a much "toonier" direction than I originally intended.