@doodletronicsp I like the Palomino but really they're almost identical!
A short film I made in 2004 with the help of the Irish Film Board. It started out as a way for me to learn how to animate on a computer– I had only ever worked hand-drawn until then! but went on to play in over a hundred film festivals. It was nominated for an Annie Award for Short Subject, where it lost to a Disney short… it did win Best Short Film at the Taormina Film Festival though. It was produced by long-suffering Barry O’Donoghue at Barley Films.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
This is delightful. The cow has a wonderful personality. I loved her on first sight. How could you not?
I empathize deeply with this cow.