I'm still not decided on the final 3 themes for my 3 gifs, so I'm considering 4 or 5 still and seeing how much life i can get out of them, and how practical its going to be to animate them, as I'm getting carried away with what visions i have in my mind compared to what i can actually produce in real life. Also have to consider weather I'm going to produce a detailed drawing with minimal animation or simple bold graphics with lots of time spent on the animation and bringing it to life. Though having said that, ill probably end up doing detailed drawings and complicated animation..!
Something involving Pizza is definitely going to make the final 3,in anyway i can! I love every aspect of pizza, and also looking at other peoples versions of illustrated pizza. It's one of the simpler things to draw, but it fun to bring your own voice to how it looks. Well, i have fun looking at them anyway- and eating them. I've done a lot of 'research' this past few weeks.
Simple blob drip test, just to see if i was doing it right
and if it looked like it was dripping smoothly.
I have a new found respect to the olden-times animators, the Disney Snow White guys!
This thing took a fair amount of time, and it's looong repetitive tracing work, for fairly minimal results. Being new to this, I'm realising that going down the route of drawing 20/25 separate,slightly different drawings is going to result in wobbly/shakey final images, as its near on impossible to produce identical linework. Which can work to your advantages in some cases, depending on the tone of your subject/imagery.But for the amount of movement i'd ideally like to produce i think I'm going to have to go a different way about it.
The sketchy shakey look makes me think of a cartoon section of late90's comedy series Big Train, The 43rd World Stare-Out Championship…combined with the commentary, makes it a winner!
Another character I'm fairly sure will be part of my final submission is my little 'Squeaker'.
Based on a real-life,tiny Chinese friend of mine. She has a lot of child-like characteristics and mannerisms that make her a perfect subject for a cutsie cartoon.
Another great love of my mine are the level worlds and scenery of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros 3 (and later Super Mario World and on a higher level Mario 3D on Wii) Sunny circle and box trees and hills! So i wanted to have a gif set in a weird quirky, 8-bit style land, as a nod to the N.E.S times. Always takes me to a happy place.
Bobby Charlton Comb-over character, carried on from
my random paint experiments earlier on in the project.
(Above) 80's hero/idol the WWFs Ultimate Warrior,sadly no longer with us. Was thinking of a detailed but simply animated gif design for him, but am having second thoughts as he is/was already a real person, and not a character designed by myself. Will still consider 'characterising the character' further though.
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