A few sketches selected out of my animation production of Nami Sakuragi as I refine my character designs. These shows some of the update changes that she wears now a t shirt, short stripe skirt and sandals rather than short jeans, sleeveless Hood top and trainers for her footwear as I wanted to portray Nami have that summer look design overall. The wet suit design is essential to show the viewer that she is about to explore underwater beneath the surface as well as keeping it pg. I have yet to maintain consistency throughout when animating her in any dynamic perspective view before bringing her to life with some color and shading that will be the highlight during the production.    

 Like the title says I accumulate some glimpse of images occur that I envision during the day and that these images shown represents my thoughts and some idea of what the characters is going to be acting in my animation in addition what fascinates me as an animator, is each poses has a unique prospective of tricking the camera in many ways to portray characters looking at from a certain direction or the characters' emotions convey in a story which makes camera work just as important as the characters communicate in the animation itself which lead me to think differently during my post production. Had it not been for watching countless anime episodes, allot of time spent researching on female in motion and taking this subject under my wings to realize and awaken my senses to what extend I believe how my animation should turn out eventually.

As far as poses are concern, it is up to each artist on how they manipulate exaggeration in their animation as every single artist has a certain style or approach when doing so in their production. Mine in particular I can easily relate to Japanese anime and Disney cartoons in general as there is always some facial expressions or body language during a episode or movie that had me laughing and some epic moments too. Only time will tell, if my female character poses seems too exotic or ecchi for the viewers then that is fine by me as I intent to keep it pg with no form of adult nudity in any way, in my animation.                                                                                 










at 11:42 Posted by leokage 0 Comments

Lately I have been feeling quite unwell as the days passes by.  I manage to do nearly all of the character animation required at the beginning and middle scenes and carry on doing some fixes here and there. I have a strong desire to see this through to the end as it will be one tedious, frustrating project that might just well be 5 mins with all that I have in mind.  Once all the character animations as well as the concrete backgrounds has been completed in pencil, i'll then use the live trace option feature in adobe illustrator to help me with the workload in addition, it makes the process much easier and quicker for me so I can focus adding color and shading to the characters rather than outlining them with the pen tool one by one, if that was the case, I'll fall behind schedule. I'll continue fulfill the gaps and use my imagination to see how I tell the story to the audience in my animation as unique and interesting as possible.