Animation Academy Week 2

Had another great session at the Animation Academy Saturday. I'm going to miss my next class to see Book of Mormon, so I did a makeup class this weekend.

After my last blog, I did a few more concepts for the black & white movie monsters inspired characters that I discussed in my last blog.

The Phantom

The Bride of Frankenstein

Little Green Man

The Invisible Man

The Mad Scientist

Skeleton yelling at his kid's Little League coach

Pajama-wearing Devil

I cranked these concepts out really fast, I'm talking around 5 minutes on each. I'm astonished at how fast I can draw with the method Zembillas' showed me.

While in class, I asked what was why the Wolfman's tongue from last week looked so stupid. It was explained to me that the tongue lacked gravity. See how it's arching in the picture? "Like the St. Louis Arch" my instructor said. I redrew the Wolfman, thinking about my dog, Rocco, when I designed it, so it might look a little corgi-ish.

Original Tongue

New Tongue... and a new look!

After drawing it, I was looking at Rocco and noticed that the round part of the snout (where the whiskers are) doesn't go all the way back to the face like I have it. It's more circular or oval shaped where as mine is somewhat rectangular. Looking at my puggle, Zira, who has a shorter snout, the round part is closer to her face, but is still not rectangle. It seems fine considering the volume of the snout, but it wasn't my intention. The whiskers should probably also be closer to the nose too.

My new assignment for week 2 was head rotations. At first I had difficulty with the profile (side) view. Charles gave me a great tip, which, in my own words, was to basically follow the center line on my other drawings to get the head shape. After some reworking, this is the final result of my head rotation on the character I found the most appealing at that time, The Bride.

Front, Front 3/4, Back

Profile, Back 3/4

All and all I'm happy with the rotations. The Back 3/4 has a little bit of a skew on the hair. I'm going to go over that next week with my instructor. I'm also going to see if the profile is right too proportionally. I'm wondering if the eyes and ears are in the right place.

As always, comments and feedback are welcome.