Weekly Animation Challenge

After a bit of frustration this week, decided to take a break from some of the stuff I'm working on to do this cool little Weekly animation challenge, this is two days worth of work. Learning all the time!

11 seond club is almost done. Face Animation time!

Not only is it face animation time. It is finish the hand animation time. Finish the arms, double check all the arcs, animate her little bit of hair she is supposed to have. Oh my goodness, less than a week left. I just might have to duck out on thanksgiving.

Scratch that, can't skip all that delicious food, I mean that is a crime isn't it? Well isnt in?
No need to fret, I'm on pace to get what I want to get done by the deadline. This last week is going to be a test of mettle. I'm going to try to put in 6 or so hours a day to get it done.

Sleep is for babies! WHERE IS MY COFFEE!!! WHY AM I YELLING!

11 second club! You're killin me!

November 2013 11 second club - progression
Soo many things are changing. Too many things I didn't like in the last revision.
Excessive arm movement, Excessive movement on the guy. I don't have much time left, so I have to start tying things down and getting to face animation! AAAAAH!

I'm gonna punch both of these characters in the gut if they don't get their act together. I'm trying to meet a deadline here. Actors. pfffft!

November 2013 11 second club Background test

Doing some inbetweens, cleaning up interactions, almost there, then I'll begin work on mouth shapes and hair overlap motion. I wanted to see how it looks on the background. I'm such a fan of these blackwing pencils, they have the right amount of black without the smudge. Eventually I'm going to be vectorizing all the lines in toon boom to get a cleaner look. Right now I'm directly importing images to do pencil tests. Although the BACKGROUND on this one is Vectorized line art.

11 second club progress

Not much time is left to start fine tuning timing. Right now the timing feels a bit even, and the accents are not strong as I would like in some sections. I'll watch it a few more times and re-work some areas. I've removed a number of excessive poses to avoid too much movement.

11 Second club Pose test numero 3

Running through the logistics of poses and character moving from point a to point b. I need to do break downs and fine tune acting still. Slowly but surely.

x-sheets

Let your tears roll, I still want to go back and make some additonal acting notes on the xsheet before I get to animating. Plan and plan oh, and plan.

More 11 second work - thumbnail synced

Pose test. I'm in the process of refining x-sheet and will post soon.

11-second club nov 2013 - boards first pass rough

I still like the idea of the characters flirting, but the composition I was leaning towards crowded the set, and preventing the characters from having space to move. The concept is still along the lines of flirting/advancements un warranted. Ultimately the guy goes in for a kiss, gets rejected, begins tearing up, then scoots out the shot.