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WAREHOUSE FIGHT SCENE!!

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I made a song called BORING& USELESS

Music video is up on YouTube!

-08 03 23

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Wow I haven't posted on Tumblr in a really really long time but I thought I'd check back in!

This is an animation and music test for my new original project I'm calling "Bad Luck Dim Sum"

I also made a YouTube channel! Got a lot of projects planned that I'll be putting up there eventually!!

-07 27 23

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Learnin to play da mandolin 🌈

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Lars!! 

Here’s a sequence I storyboarded for The Off Colors!

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self expression

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a selection of drawings from my boards for Storm in the Room

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Rose run cycle, from Storm in the Room. Animating a run at this camera angle was a tough but fun challenge! (Especially with the hair and the dress!)

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the zoo

i had SO much fun working on the zoo episode of steven universe with katie. when we first got the episode we were talking a lot about how the zoo is supposed to be this kind of utopia. a good good friend of mine told me about a quote from…uh…someone…about how utopias usually have something/someone missing, or that you should look for what’s not there in these settings. with that in mind i wanted to make the zoomans (zoo humans) as varied and diverse as possible. here are some initial sketches + a few board drawings.  

oh! i also got to voice Y6 which was really fun! it was also tiring because he’s so energetic lol! thanks for watching! 

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Sketchbook

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I animated some cat dance poses drawn by Max Collins!

Original:

https://twitter.com/buttsIug/status/774335398512209920

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Interpreting the Animation Principles-

Hand-drawn animation requires all 3 conditions- solid draftsmanship, fluid mechanics and compelling performance to enable a character to life.  

And in the pursuit of these conditions, some distinctive patterns emerged.  They were noted by the master animators from the Disney Studios back in the earlier time and written into the 12 principles of animation.

When studying animation, the 12 principles become a technical guideline and often taken at given surface values.  For example, ‘squash-and-stretch’ is necessary to keep the movement pliable, organic and not stiff-looking.  A body part must squash and stretch from a technical point-of-view.  But it really is much more than that and has much to do with how an animator senses a feel of mass in relation to force.

I feel it is very resourceful to question the principles, to fully understand how certain principle came to be from a more personal perspective.  Through this in-depth understanding, an animator can truly apply them effectively, and in turn, adding new personal revelations.

(Above, my very first scene for the industry from Disney’s ‘Rescuers- Down Under’.  I was animating more on instinct for most of my earlier time and not as consciously aware to the underlying nature of movements, causing me to be much slower at arriving to a result…) 

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watercolor practice

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drew a silly steven

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Remembering how to use watercolors! Plants on the porch