Spiderman and Wolverine

I'm a comic fan, and I drew this a while back in 2008. After looking through some archives I came across this one and thought it was cool enough to post online. (It's a gif just wait a sec for the load, it's only 232kb, but seems to take a while to register)

Storyboard

My end year school project, phase 1 - Storyboarding of the nursery rhyme: Horsey Horsey

I'm looking forward to making this project and putting 110% into it. I can see myself spending a lot of time animating a quadruped, however I think the process will be exciting, contain copious learning curves and be extremely rewarding in the end!

Horsey Horsey

Don't you stop

Let your feet go

Clippetty clop

Your tail goes swish

and the wheels go round

Giddy up now!

We're homeward bound.

So here's the first storyboard I've made for the short. If I stare long and hard enough maybe I'll see some other kind of interesting angles I could play with, or effects I could put in. All the while being conscious not to go too crazy because I'll be wanting to pay more attention to the character animation than anything else. Already I'm thinking I want to have more movement with the driver. We'll see what happens.

Project Eli concept designs

I have only now realized that I had not posted a concept of How Eli evolved from scribble to what he is now. I really enjoyed the process of creating this character, the hardest being the first initial design, after you get that down it seems as if the concept brews nicely in your unconscious mind allowing the process to unfold naturally and easily. I had Initially created 40 character sketches of which I chose one to refine, It then became a choice of 3 and Eli was picked.

So here's the concept:

Rigging

Rigging seems to be so much more fun than I expected! Completed my first rig today. Will probably redo it, just because I can... Practice mostly. The deformations are good for the most part, but I know that once I've done the skinning it's going to look at whole lot better!