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Picnic shot 01, rough blocking

This isn’t really blocking… more of a test using Toon Boom to do pencil tests… I’m starting to get the hang of it, but it’s still very, very rough:

First shot at flipbook blocking

More Gold!

Doug Compton has done a great job in illustrating animation principles on his online book called “Drawing for Classical Animation“. It’s not only informative, it is very entertaining. I’m still checking it out but I thought you guys might like to give it a shot as well.

Picnic layout, finished

Ok, so I’m not saying it’s a masterpiece, but I finally finished my layout. Here it is:

Animation Gold

Do yourselves a favor and read this article. Make sure you read it a couple of times until you understand how valuable what he’s saying actually is. Trust me, you’ll thank me later.

Layout, first 3rd

Ok, so I’ve layed out the first 3rd of my new animation. Took longer than I thought, but I was also trying to string out my 3d cameras and that took a bit of R&D. Anyway, see what you think.

Picnic

Here’s an animatic for my next animation short. It’s called picnic. See what you think. This is first pass.