Week Five: Guidance

How do.

So, week five has ended, nad things are going okay, and I, thanks to some helpful advice from Sam, have finally got the hang of the characters line quality / thickness etc.

Prior to this advice, my mark making had been slightly off model, most notably on the heads. So in a Karate Kid style lesson, I was shown that the head should be a single, sweeping line. Previously my heads had been drawn with several shorter lines, which lead to a noticably less smooth line, the actual characters were pretty much ok as fvar as proportions go, but the change from Sam's smooth lines to my more sketchy mark making was apparent, making the two different styles contrast.

but it's all ok now. We live and we learn.

As far as the actual shots I'm animating are going, they've been ok. This week I've been animating a scene that involves most of the major characters standing around talking. Not much tricky animation, but it's been a little awkward getting the backgrounds worked out, as the scene is made up of a number of different fairly rapid shots. iIf the backgrounds don't work, the continuity will be broken, and space / time itself will shatter. Well, maybe not the last bit, but the scene wouldn't be as effective.

Well, bye for now folks.