I was saddened today to hear of the news that Ollie Johnston, the last of the Nine Old Men, died today at the age of 96.
Along with Milt Kahl, he was a huge source of inspiration. As well as a huge source of knowledge, thanks to his book, The Illusion of Life. I’m glad to know he had a nice, full life of 96 years, and he was a benefit to this world and us all.
Im going to watch The Sword In The Stone, or Jungle Book…
R.I.P. Ollie, and thank you
Just some of my life drawings from the last couple weeks
Last week! It feels so weird knowing I wont be back at the school for another 4 months after this week. Oh well, I need the break. Especially after the amount of work I’ll be doing this week coming up.
- 25 object drawings that im probably going to have to be doing in one night
- My animation of a cross dressing flour sac that I figure should be around 240 or so drawings in total
- Also, my final Character design project. My main headache right now. After working on the project for a good 3 weeks, I started my whole project all over again this Thursday. Im beating the shit out of my brain right now trying to get this whole thing done by the end of the week. I’ll be sure to share it once this is all done.
Oh well, I’ll just keep chanting “Last week! Last Week!” over and over in my head as a mantra just so I dont go nuts. Here’s hoping I’ll be sane next monday.
I’ve reached my second last week of school for this year. Crazy amounts of work going on right now. Revising my leica again, trying to work through Combustion (god I hate that program). I’m refining my Jekyll to Hyde design, which is one of my more important projects right now, I need to nail this. Also a pretty easy to do frankenstein Layout.
On top of all that, i’ve got my behemoth of a project going: a cross-dressing flower sac. Yeah, this thing is huge, weighing in at 19 seconds long. Either way having a ton of fun doing this gigantic animation, and so far its going fairly well, I cant wait to see this thing completely in-betweened.
Until its all done, i’ve got to get some rest.
Well, I found out again last week why I hate sitting on the donkey stand to life draw instead of standing. I spent nearly the entire session battling proportion issues. It does pop up once in a while, but its not a very common problem for me. But that day I ran into so many arms that were bigger than the entire body, and just as many arms the size of a head. It was a day of frustration in its most visible.
Falling behind here… Cant blame me though, I had two very terrible weeks of life drawing. Seriously, i havent been this displeased with myself for the last while.
I’l'l just group both weeks together into this post… If anything just to show you guys how crappy they were
Gah. That sucked.
Well, i’m certainly looking forward to the next couple months. Aside from free time, warm weather, and money coming my way once again, we’ve got quite a few animated movies with alot of potential heading our way over the next couple months.
Kicking things off, on Friday, Horton Hears A Who will be hitting the theatres. I enjoyed the Ice Age movies, and the trailers for this movie have been looking pretty solid. I’m doing what I can this week to scrounge up whatever money I can to catch opening night this week.
Later on we’ll have Kung Fu Panda. Another Dreamworks movie. Lately they’ve been getting pretty stale with their animations. I havent really enjoyed one of their animations since the first Shrek. I sort of liked Madagascar. Over The Hedge was just really boring. And I dont even want to talk about Bee Movie. But Kung Fu Panda is looking fairly interesting. Im loving their design work, and the layouts are pretty eye catching. Who knows, maybe it’ll save Dreamworks once again?
And we cant forget my favourite release of the summer. Pixars Wall-E. I’ve been psyched by this ever since I caught sight of the first trailer so many months ago. It just looks brilliant. Everything. And I must say, Wall-E himself is one helluva cute robot. I cant wait for this movie.
I’ll share with you guys a pretty new Vignette showcasing the movie. In HD.
Oh, and I cant forget to mention Disney’s The Princess And The Frog and Rapunzel. Both Due are due out next year. It’ll be great seeing Disney’s return to classical animation. Cant wait to see more on both of those movies.
I realised the last week that most of my life drawings have been seriously lacking in structure. So I’ve set myself back to trying to bring structure into my drawings again.
I managed to find a little time over reading week to do some more life drawing.
Nothing spectacular, just more drawings.
When it comes to life drawing, I didnt do much of anything last week. Holiday on Monday, Bone Room on Tuesday, and plans on Thursday, and Im never around on Friday. Which left me only one day to do my life drawing. I tried to make the best of it, somewhat successfully.
