Danny the conductor - rough animation

Last week Fabian Erlinghäuser from the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon (Secret of Kells) was our tutor at animation school. We had to animate 5 seconds of classical music by Bethoven and let Danny, the main character from "Cats don't dance", be a conductor. It took me a week (let's say about 5 days) to finish those 5 seconds. Thank you for the great hints and critique, Fabian :-) Now I feel a bit more confident about animating!

revengesaurs take revenge

With Christmas coming up and character design and layout having to be finished, I neglected my blog duties. Well at least I manage to show new sketches once or twice a month. That's worth something, isn't it?

awesome dinasaurs, ey?

Take a left

We're heading in a new direction. We changed our ice-fairy tale a bit and finally get set on a design. So I'll show some of the last development steps we had for our character. What a journey a character design is! New suggestions are made constantly. And the other ones from my group also made designs and so we all pushed us further and further. That was an important experience :-)
Adobe Bridge was so kind to put together the images.
By the way, I had to switch to left again, because the right elbow started hurting again - apparently it didn't heal properly. Or it will just reappear for the rest of my life... at least it seems to get better sooner than the last time.

revengesaurs

Oh my..I forgot to make some posts a few times o.O// It seems I have been busy (sounds more suitable than lazy ;-P). Anyway, here are the drawings from my second visit to the ballet dancers. So I could take revenge. To get back my portrait of the old red haired lady. Maybe you remember.