Well Its been a long few days with not a whole lot going on. The Mrs has turned 24 and its been mothers day and basically not a great deal of time has been spent sat at the screen, well not this one at least. Tomorrow I AM going to upload a quick 'playblast' of my blocking so far, should include most of the motions for the second character all fleshed out. I have found myself going over the same motion over and over again, which is no one else's fault and I'm not going to complain either. With each new version it improves or at the very least, because a lot cleaner, often with a lot less (messy) frames blocked out.
With there being 21 days left (ample time) with my sisters wedding thrown in the middle I am hoping to make decent head way with this in the next few days, allowing for a "rest" period in which I can flex my animation muscle on some of my pet projects. First one that comes to mind is simply an exercise, it will be a short clip of one guy slugging the other in the face. Nothing spectacular, but its one thing they get wrong in a lot of films.
An action sequence looks terrible if you dont get a sense of genuine contact between fist and face.. or whatever your striking. It all looks too much like a sport points match of karate. In karate sparing, no one ever really sinks a move in, or hits to the persons mass, its just a surface blow, snapped back and forth. In real fighting its hit hard and hit deep, no pulling the punches. So i'm going to do my research, theres lots of different takes on this, i'll be looking at classics like Enter the Dragon, this style would help me practice exaggerating speed and keep me loose, rather than keeping it safe and animating everything on twos. There's a lot of snap in Bruces' moves and no one ever really moved quite like him. Another example film with intense action is The Bourne Ultimatum, mainly due to its use of unorthodox camera shots, the camera appears to give an apathetic jolt with each coming blow. This is another technique I will attempt to utilise in my "how to make a punch look good...mission, thingy" Well its a working title..
Before I go, getting to the point of todays blog title. I can't really draw very well, once upon a time I could draw well for my age. But this soon wore off with a lack of development, by the time I reach college I had met a number of people who already had a good understanding of drawing, I had just sat back in blissful ignorance. By the time Uni came around this had multiplied, my fellow peers who enjoyed drawing and dedicated so much time to it that they left uni with skills worthy of paid work.. Now I may be focussing on Animation, but I enjoy drawing and furthering my skills can only aid my chances of getting hired. Plus I would love to believe one day I could also be paid just for using a pencil and not having to write with it. So as mentioned before in a previous post i'm going to have a crack at my first 1000 drawings, today i'm uploading one of the first 10 and i'll keep you posted as I progress!
-Paul
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