Animation

I made a 10 second animated clip during school, to to demonstrate my ability to focus on the same drawing, changing it only slightly, then redraw. Animation typically moves through a series of still images at a rate of about 30 frames per second (29.97 actually). ...That's 300 pictures, for 10 seconds of motion!

Upon completion of that project, I realized, I can't hypnotize myself having to draw the same thing over and over. I still enjoy studying it, and appreciate the whacky people that can handle that level of redundancy. But as for me, I would make a better 'Keyframer' This person makes the major movements and scene changes, then the peasants do the dirty work. The problem is, I could never sit at the bottom long enough to work my way to the top...I would go insane.

So, I decided to do neither, and instead...took my art to a totally different realm. I am often asked what I do for a living... Rarely do I give the same answer as the time before.

I stumbled apon this sweet bit, and instantly realized... Someone in the animation field doesn't like drawing the same thing over and over, just as much as me! I bet none of you even had deja-vu when watching these movies. You probably never thought, "I know I've seen that somewhere before..."



I couldn't find my 10 second clip... But here are a couple that I have done that I had handy:

School project, demonstrating "Walking Motion"
(everyone else did stick figures for this assignment ;)

This was demonstrating a 4-legged run.

Here is a project I did for a client. It was part of a presentation on energy.