Thumbnail sketches for my next animation test. I started off deciding to animate a sequence from the Animator’s Workbook of a hand picking up a stick, then thought I might as well change the stick to a ball and throw it up in the air.

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Rough draft of a head turn based on exercise from Tony White’s The Animator’s Workbook.

I started animating a walk from Richard Williams’ Animator’s Survival Kit, but found myself frozen in terror unable to fill in the inbetweens! So I’ve taken a few steps back (ha ha ha….ha) and decided to muck around with the basic principles a little more. This is the equivalent not of practising scales, but sitting at the piano hitting keys different ways just to see what different sounds you can produce.

So here’s a test of an arm flapping a la the Swan Queen. It’s breathtakingly bad, and I have yet to get the hang of keeping drawings consistent, but it’s a start.

catwalk model, Posh & Becks, and an attempt at an infomercial (surprisingly compelling viewing, especially when channel surfing at 4am!)

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Having a hard time settling down to draw or animate anything. May have something to do with sitting at a desk the entire working week… anyway, here’s another Giselle sketch.

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first cut at a pendulum test, just to work out how to put it together in PAP.