I have always felt like a shark that needs to keep moving forward or it will die. This seems to lead me to a natural tendency for me to,occasionally default /deviate to straight ahead animation. It’s probably adhd related. It’s used in stop motion and paint/pastel William Kentridge style hand drawn which I need to… Continue reading Straight ahead isn’t so straight forward

Revisiting the walk cycle I realise that I need to study the anatomy of four legged friends and I’m planning to go to the zoology museum to do so as I really enjoyed this attempt and can’t wait to literally go wild with it on different species as I practice.

I felt I needed arrows as guides to try and help focus on where the force and weight are heading , also x markers to check if I’ve returned to previous full height or if my body shapes are morphing. During this exercise I noticed (again) that my shapes were morphing. Id been using onion… Continue reading Pick it up, pick it up (lifting exercise)

I tried to over egg my gestures from happy to sad in the planning of the mood change scene, although looking at the bottom left photo I’ve got some very strange anatomy going on! It took me a couple of days to get the flow of the stride , bend, cross over keys round my… Continue reading In the mood for a walk?

I was really struggling with maintaining the body forms during squash and stretch during the exercise and mouse tail length fluctuations ! Steve suggested using an elastic band as a guide method for paper exercises. I also tried to simplify the forms, sketching gestures and shapes using oil pastels on paper was really helpful. I… Continue reading Reviewing overlap animation

I found this animation really refreshing in its mixed media combination of styles. It was very much a labour of love by Nina Paley who wrote/animated/produced the film. It is however a cautionary copyright story as the blues songs weren’t licensed to be used correctly and thus was a very emotionally cathartic but costly endeavour… Continue reading Sita Sings the blues

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