Notes From the Underground
Sketched on the underground, tarted up with digital washes.
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Some Notes on Comparative Anatomy
It’s a mighty big subject obviously but for this talk I focused on looking for squash and stretch in the skeleton. Useful for animation and also for rigging. It’s easy for humans to forget how squashy-stretchy most animal skeletons are, because we ourselves are built very upright and straight with all our bones pretty much [...]
Till the Cows Come Home
Here’s some of my notes on four-legged walks (our feature animal: COWS!) for a class I’m teaching at the Animation Workshop, for those who might find it useful– as always, study as much as you can from reference and understand WHY the action is as it is.
Cat Anatomy Notes– The Spine
Just got back from teaching a few weeks at the always relaxing and inspiring Animation Workshop. I agreed to do a short course in animal animation in 2D before I remembered that I haven’t animated on paper in three or four years– yikes! They tend to ask me to teach something with animals when I [...]
Oh, you are tempting me, aren’t you! But, the talk is set, it will be this Wednesday night (oy, what am I doing here? ought to be editing and mercilessly cutting my speech!), and as far as I know, the Power Point presentation is all set.
So, go ahead, show me hands, show me people reading on the tube, show me your most insidious – I CAN WITHSTAND!
…erm, I think! I mean, “tarted up with digital washes”? What bait!
*wibble*