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Marks Notes 9

A couple more of my examples of searching for a stronger silhouette in a single pose.

Here in Vancouver at VANarts Media college
where I teach Character Animation and Story, for one of my assignments I take the students silhouette drawing that they hand in and draw over with my notes on separate layers so that they can see the difference. We look for shapes and angles within the pose to help explain how the body weight is being supported as well as clearly telling the story.




Student pose

My sketch overtop the students

My Notes

Student Pose

My sketch overtop students

My notes

Willy Pogany 3

Again, some more beautiful work from Willy Pogany :

 

Inspiration 18 - Disney's Paperman

Beautiful work from the Mouse House :-)

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DRAGONS LAIR 2 - John Pomeroy drawings

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays 2012 everyone !
One last post for this year :-)

While working at Don Bluth Studios for the earlier part of my career I was fortunate enough to be able to work and learn from some amazing talent.

As mentioned in earlier posts, John Pomeroy was the artistic leader and I always found him open to pass on any tips and encouragement. He was extremely busy and when you were able to have a moment with him as he talked about the art of animation, it was always very enlightening and positive. There was always this excitement and passion and you could tell he loved what he was working on. It also shows in his work as  here are some beautifully drawn images from one of his scenes from Don Bluths ' Dragons Lair 2 - Time Warp '. 

The drawings are from the end of the game when the hero Dirk rescues his love Daphne and they come together for the kiss. Beautiful. 

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Emperors New Groove - Kuzco rough test

Here is another one of my rough animation tests for Disney's animated feature ' Emperors New Groove '.
It is Sequence 1 Scene 76. 

I'm forgetting who, but I know I gave one of the incidental characters to my rough assistants at the time. There was a pool of rough assistant animators at Disney and you could use them to help complete the scene as needed. { if there was one available at the time }.

Emperors New Groove - Kuzco Rough Animation Test 3 from Mark Pudleiner on Vimeo.

 I animated a few scenes in a row in this section, also doing the scene directly before { scene 75 } 

where the 3 babies are held up to Kuzco and he 'kisses' them with a rubber stamp. When animating that scene, I named the babies after my two boys, Steven and Mathieu and then the middle baby 'Sam' { if we were going to have a girl someday, that was to be her name } All unofficial as they were only in this one scene, but hey, that's what i labeled them on my animation charts :-)

Here is a link to an old Burbank newspaper article regarding the scene > click HERE

This film was a nice change as the timing of the animation was leaning more towards the snappier 

WB style. Snapping into key poses and following through with the overlap. Below are the 2 scenes as they play out together.

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