I've been watching a lot of old UPA stuff and really love the simplistic backgrounds and wanted to try to do something to emulate that.
I made this on some down time at the office an evening at home. All together I think I spent around 5 hrs on it....an hour of which was spent listening to soundfx:)
Here's an environment concept I came up with for a project that I'm heading up at work. This was just a test to find the "look" of it...so I just wanted to throw this out in the world because it's kind of a new style for me and it's pretty fun to make and super easy.
Here is one of the shot's I worked on while taking part in Keith Lango's APT. He worked with me primarily on posing and making shapes flow together.
I worked on two shots, I'll try to get the other up before too long. I'm still doing some clean up on it here and there.
I really enjoyed my APT session. Having Keith go through my shot and actually show me what was working, what wasn't, and then to show me, within the scene, a couple different ways to make it better really helped.
He explained concepts and principles in a clear and applicable way and I think that I understand how to approach animating clearer now then before I took the class.
April the 18th we will celebrate 10 years of Danita's Children. I've been working with several incredible people to bring together artists from all over to use our gifts to make a difference in the world. If your going to be in the Nashville area in April, I hope that you can make it out. Not only will we showing art but we'll have live musical performances from some of Nashville's local talent.....don't miss it....it's going to be something special.
Here is a viral video that I made to promote the show. Enjoy
I'm an animator living in Nashville, not quite the animation mecca of the world, but I like my little niche here as it gives me time to focus on the important stuff.
Like cartoons and toys.
