Head Turn

This one isn't really a pencil test per se, but it was my last assignment. This is a flat, stylized 2D head-turn. The character design is borrowed from Pixar's short film "Your Friend the Rat."

Sacks of Flour

This assignment was to show anthropomorphic sacks of flour in action. My favorite is the "flour killer," I thought it was very Bill Watterson-esque. In case you are wondering how a sack of flour grows eyebrows and a beard...it's mold.

More Figure Drawings

Here are two more. The top one is my daughter (isn't she cute).

Figure Drawings

Here are some figure drawings from the last couple of weeks. The assignment was to "hi-lite" the stretch and compression areas of each drawing. Red indicates the stretch and blue indicates the compression.

Pencil Tests IV

This is my favorite so far. It's still fairly rough, but eventually I'll redo the the body animation to make it more fluid. The assignment was to make a flying creature in 3/4 view. Everyone did a bird or bat so I had to do something more...Joe-ish.

Pencil Tests III

Here's a flag waving. I'm not overly pleased with it; it's supposed to run on a loop, but it looks way too repetitive right now. I'll re-post it when I've worked on it some more.

Pencil Tests II

Here's my favorite one, so far. It's a cannonball test animation; the assignment was to convey the feeling of a cannonball coming toward you and landing in front of you. I want to finesse my camera shake and dust cloud eventually, but it was a pretty good first pass.

Pencil Tests I

I thought I'd go ahead and post my pencil tests that I'm doing for my animation class. This first one is a balloon floating across the sky. The assignment was to make it feel like a balloon through movement, but the shape had to be just a plain circle (no tied end or string). I'm not super pleased with it, but my instructor thought it was pretty good.