Work in progress sketch

Since I'm going to be out of town for the next week or so,  I've decided to post a work in progress sketch of what I've been working on.  I'll hopefully be able to go further once I get back from NY, but it all depends on how my Intuos is doing.  I'll probably be upgrading to a Cintiq sooner than I planned...

Over all I'm pretty satisfied with Psyche's pose, but Cupid is more problematic...  How does one sleep with great big wings on their back?

Cupid and Psyche Sketches

It's been a busy couple of weeks with lots of graduations, family leaving on trips, and not getting time to do as much art work/animating as I wanted.  The next few weeks look just as busy as well, but I'll try and get some stuff up here, even if it's just really rough bad digital sketches.

I worked on these story sketches last weekend and they were supposed to go up last Sunday, but I didn't get a chance to upload them onto my photobucket.  The images are ideas for different parts of the Cupid and Psyche story.  I'm going to try and take some of these to full color, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to get them up here.  If anyone has a preference let me know as I may put them up on Redbubble or Society 6.

I'm going to try and get something up next weekend, but I'm going to New York in a couple of weeks and am trying to get everything done for the trip.

"In Waiting" update

I said last week (just looked and it was my 50th and broke 1000 page views) that I'd try and get an update of my short film up here this week, so here it is!

I still have about 13-14 shots to animate before I'll be finished with the rough animation.  I'll leave it as rough animation for the most part once it's finished.  I might go back in and clean it up later.

I've started saving up for a Cintiq, so once I save up enough we'll see if I have an easier time getting polished work up on here.  I love my current tablet (it's survived almost 10 years of abuse), but drawing on it is so much more difficult than drawing directly on a screen.

Have some sketches and storyboards

I'm still trying to figure out digital landscape painting which also means practicing perspective.  I'm using Cupid and Psyche to work on pre-production skills, so did some sketches of key scenes. 

Here's a sketch of Psyche sneaking up on a sleeping Cupid.

Here's another one from just a few moments later in the shot where he leaves her.

Both sketches need more work before I can go in further, but they get what I want across so they're alright.

I also have some storyboards of the opening of the film.  There will be narration over it, but I'm still working out what it will be exactly. 

I now have to figure out how I'm going to get the next boards to explain what I want to happen next, which means research time.

Revisiting an old bit of animation

So I got my copy stand fixed up yesterday (we had to replace the connector bit of one of the lamps), and so I've been able to shoot my animation work without having to rearrange my room.  Here's something I shot to test it out.  I'm still trying to get rid of the hot spots from the lights, but it's progress. 
 

I started this shot about a year ago, then put it away to work on my short film.   I thought I had thrown it out, but I just found it in my animation box, so I'm going to work on finishing it up.