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He loves flowers. Too bad he’s terrified of bees.
Another cartoon animation exercise. The focus of this one was to come up with a simple story and animate it to a musical beat. It started as an assignment during my last APT session with Keith Lango. Big thanks to him for the assignment, and for the [...]

Here it is! The cartoon test I’ve been finishing up. I did most of the animation during my last APT session with Keith, and then tweaked it afterwards. I also wanted to try a loose, rough style of rendering and backgrounds, to go with the animation style.

Nothing ground-breaking here in terms of animation, but doing [...]

This was the second — and definitely more fun — part of my APT 5 class. I wanted to try my hand at classic cartoon animation. The good stuff! Keith had me animate two flour sack exercises, and rather than struggle with a flour sack rig in Maya, I went ahead and drew them out [...]

So I finally finished cleaning up the animations I made during Keith’s APT 5 session. It’s been a while since I finished that session, I know, but I first had to deal with all the things I had pushed back during the APT, and get them out of the way.
This is my attempt at a [...]

Here’s my Flipbook blocking for a flour sack exercise Keith assigned me for session 5 of the APT. The drawings (scribbles?) are really rough, but I’m hoping the action is clear enough. 

C+C welcome!

Woohoo! It’s been an intense but amazing four weeks of animating, in Keith’s APT program. I needed someone to push me and guide me, give me honest, expert feedback. And I got that and more. The man is an Animation Buddha!
Here’s the “Spanky” scene, all cleaned up. Like any shot, it’s never really done, I’m [...]

Here’s the second scene I’ve been blocking for Keith’s A:PT. I surprised myself with this one, as I don’t normally come up with such poses. These just popped into my head while listening to the audio over and over again. Of course, they’ve been revised and tidied up thanks to Keith’s critiques, though this scene [...]

Here’s one of two scenes I’ve been blocking as part of my A:PT class with Keith Lango. This one is my shot at some broad cartoony action. It’s come a long way since my first pass, and I’ve already learned quite a bit from this exercise. I still have to block in the lipsync, and [...]