timely update

About time there was an update.

First i'll show of this sweet little thing, we were going to a concert with the national, but they were having dinner at the same restaurant as us. That called for some doodle time, and my brother got them to sign them.

 

These last couple of weeks we have been designing our charactors for the escape project, more of that project to come. The designing of the charactor is us animators job in this project so we got to it.

First we played around with some happy accidents. Collage helped me a lot, and i turned a perfectly fine (and defenceless) violin into this poor lizard thing. He will spend the rest of his life being scared out of his mind.

Next step was making a Maquette. I want more of that, clay is fun!

Played with some volume, thought this was awesome and better..

..but it wasn't so i returned to the proportions of the collage, and made the construction sheet from that.

Had to do some test animations after here, and shot some reference. I should ask people to play a scared lizard some more.

Enter the makings of a turn-a-round (visual below) some a pose-sheets and a lot of notes.

And finally an example of the style the poor thing will be made in.

Design class

So designclass with Lawrence part two. This was hard. I have little to no skills in this class.
So here are two of the assignments.

 This first one i really liked. We were playing with values. And yes, thats a duck.

This last one is not good... yet. I need to learn how to render.
And the detials almost killed me just by making the line.

I will beat you, rendering! I shall be the winner!
... some other day.












trust me I am gonna finish this sooner or later!

Clean Up

Like everything else at this school (or everything about animation for that matter) i like the process of clean up, its just that I rarely do clean up drawings, and my clean lines are often really rough. I am not crazy for clean up, but it's nice to sit and draw. I just prefer sketches, and can you really blame me? Sketches are awesome, matter of fact! Lucky for me our teacher, this week it's Slaven, don't want really clean lines. Life savior!

Anyways, back on track, it doesn't help that the character is Balto from, yeah you guessed it, Balto. Through that movie that dog changes design 5 billion times, just in our reference sheets he changes. So the task is to make it consistent and not necessarily make it look like Balto.

here is what i have so far, i slowed it down a bit in the last part, else you cant really see whats going on.

balto clean up from edith bach on Vimeo.

It is what it is. The animation we got was pretty ruff, and i think i did pretty okay, there's still some details to be fixed, and right now i can't see if the lines really are consistent or not, but i suspect they can be worked on still.

Penne-prøve

A little late update on last weeks penne-prøve.
5 students from the danish film school came here with animatics. Our class got divided into groups and we were given to a film school student, also called "our director" because that was their job, our job was to make the director happy.

My group, group 4, got a really nice director person by the name Claudia, really sweet and really good to work with. We started out with spending a whole day drawing the character, a day well spend i must say. At the end of the first day we all drew the character the same way and divided the scenes between us.

Our story was "uglerede", a owl moves into her new apartment after a breakup, and she is very sad about the situation.

These are my scenes.

scene 38, where she wipes away a tear:

uglerede sc 38 from edith bach on Vimeo.

and scene 45 where she kisses a heart shaped photograph before tossing it out the window:

uglerede sc 45 from edith bach on Vimeo.

all in all it was a good week for my group, we really were a team. We communicated well inbetween the animators and the director, and the director knew what she wanted while she still were large enough to take suggestions from us. I'd really like to work with her again actually.

All this was overlooked by our most skilled teacher Fabian Erlinghäuser, who works for Cartoon Saloon. We wish he comes back again sometime.

Ruff Hug

acting class: interaction hug from edith bach on Vimeo.

Rough animation of Kala from Tarzan hugging Hogarth from Iron Giant. OK you can't see that it is Hogarth but he is so difficult to draw and i didn't want to spend too much time making him look right before I'd got the animation right.

England, summer of 2010

Last summer I went to London, met some interesting people..

Who had some interesting idea's ..

Some wanted a tattoo

And I got this annoying song in my head for days. My buddy and I did NOT approve..

Obviously.

But all in all a pretty awesome trip. I'm going back there.

Random glimpse into the past is caused  by my findings of the sketchbook. It was hiding you see.

Inbetweening Ashling

Ashling Inbetweening from edith bach on Vimeo.

Inbetweening week one.
We were given the extremes and breakdowns for this wonderful scene from the movie "Secrets of Kells", which you really should see if you haven't. It's an experience for the senses .. well for me anyways.
Back on track, the assignment was to inbetween this scene, and it fast became really clear that this was a hard one, so i prioritized making at least one inbetween between each keyframe, but making them right.

I've spend soooo much time on each drawing, I'm usually faster. Guess it's because I had to think a lot, which I'm not too familiar with while drawing. I got really into this. I really enjoyed it because it was almost hypnotizing, but at the same time it was really draining. And there's still a lot of mistakes, but certainly less than there would be than if I went for finishing instead of getting it right. I'm pretty satisfied with how this went. I got to try some new things <3