Tired

Make no mistake.. animating is hard. and tiring and I've been sitting here for 8 hours and I'm hungry so once I saw my drawings were getting crap and ridiculous looking I decided it's time to go home and get FOOD. Anyway this is what I did this morning when I was still fresh. Camera lens blur for the win!

Another Shot Preview

This is the very end shot of my animation. Just thought I'd upload it and say that I'm very nearly done a basic animation. My aim is that by next Monday I'll have an animation I COULD presents but not with any of the spit and shine I would like it to have. That's what next week will be for. Wether finishing off the basic first version runs into next week or not I WILL have time to go back and polish up the whole thing. Finally caught up with where I want to be on my timetable and all. In fact very slightly ahead of it.
Think I will change the type in this again. Not to happy with how it looks as of right now. I liked what I originally had but I'm kind of sick of it and need a change.
The clothes moving in the wind was something I thought of half way through animating and I'm glad I've included it so much now. It just means an image is never still and therefore boring.

shot Preview

A shot I am proud of! Loads of help from Richard William’s book Animators Survival Kit. God I love that book.

15 Second Folio

Just a quick 15 second folio of what I see as the best work I have done so far. Including life drawing, background work, finished and unfinished work. 

If interested most of these finished animations are on my blog somewhere or else on my website: colm-connaughton.com

More Backdrops!

Here's some more backdrops for you to gander at. The blue chalk pastel I was using before hand ran out and this shade was the only blue stick of chalk I could find in the entire city of limerick! Either way I prefer this blue. Again feeling very proud of the work I've done so far. But seriously feeling the pressure with time before summer just slipping away from me. Best stop blogging and get back to it!