What time is it? It's Gesture Time!

After the exhausting 6h of TV Paint today, five brave artists joined forces and heroically modelled and sketched their way through a gesture session!

Here are my favourites from today.

Gestures!

And once more we stalwart CAs (and a bunch of other stalwart people) met up to study the human expression and its manifold variations! Meaning, we brought silly props and posed for each other. Here are some of my results.

Conclusion of the day: somehow I do better drawing two people interacting than one single person. Maybe because it forces me to think more of the context and less of the draftsmanship?

Bellydancer Design

  We had the opportunity to design our own characters for the dance animation assignment and I wanted to do a bellydancer. It was quite a challenge, but because I bellydance myself and knew my music very well, I knew what kind of movements the character would have to be able to showcase and in which way. (Subtlety and good flow was my main goal.)

  Well, here's the evolution of my character's design! She got ever simpler, basically, and chubbier. Playing around with poses was difficult at first but once I started working with the music and letting myself be led by it, it all came together much better.

 

Dance Animation with Mike Nguyen

This is the so-far unfinished version of my dance animation that I presented on Friday the 8th. I want to work on it further (like giving the lady some hair and clothes) , but the audio in my TVPaint file has disappeared under ominous circumstances, so I'll have to get that working again before tackling the animation once more.

Still, this is for Mike, who taught me so much about animation :-)



This one was both a challenge and a pleasure to work on because the subject, bellydance, is so near and dear to my heart. It made a lot of things easier for me but also harder because I had high expectations of myself. Still, comparing this to my work from last semester, I feel a lot more confident now!

Gesture Time!

The gesture drawing sessions we did during our week with Niall Laverty were fun and extremely helpful - so we were really excited to see gesture sessions included in the soft value program! But for some reason they're not happening after all. That's when we decided to organise our own gesture drawing, the first time having taken place this afternoon.

We took turns posing for each other, three one-minute poses each, using props and focusing on expressiveness and acting. It was lots of fun and I can't wait for the next time! Here are my favourite drawings from the session. I still have a long way to go, but I'll get there yet.

 

We also did poses with two people interacting. Those were two minutes each - in the beginning I spent way too long on one person so I didn't get to draw the other one.