Week 6: Cats and Cats

This Weeklies meeting was focused on cats and character design! 

We started with quick gestures of cats big and small from a compilation of reference photos. After that we used the handouts Jinny made to help design some fantastic feline characters of different shapes and styles. They covered different levels of detail and the use of shapes in a character's design. Including some in In addition we looked at character designs from animations such as Simon's Cat and Cats Don't Dance for inspiration.

Annie Burley:

 Emma Pennington:

Hillary Hastings: 

Jinny Hinkle: 

Kate Joh: 

Laura Mansfield: 

Matt Wydick: 

Renee Taylor:

Tara Nester: 

Week 5: Silhouettes and Characters

We had a great turnout this week! Jinny began the meeting by giving us handouts about characters and silhouettes. We then drew gestures with pixelovely!  Jinny emphasized the importance of altering the sketch from the reference for a more readable silhouette. For example- the first image was a figure with their arms behind them, so to make it more clear we widened the gap.  Otherwise, it would have looked like one wide, awkward arm.

After warming up, we drew the ASC's mascot.

Ace will be appearing in the blog layout very soon, so keep an eye out!

Hillary Hastings:

Annie Burley:

Blair Brown:

 

Ebony Britton:

Emma Pennington:

Renée Taylor:

Tara Nester: 

Laura Mansfield:

Kate Joh:

 Jinny Hinkle:

 Paige Hall:

In case you missed it ( or would like a refresher) here are the references Jinny mentioned:

• Walt Stanchfield - Gesture Drawing for Animation 
• Academy of Art Character & Creature Design Notes 
• Character Design Artist Interviews 

 
-See you next week!

Valentine's Day at the Weeklies

This past meeting we celebrated Valentine's Day by hosting a card making competition.

There were four categories the judges considered when picking the winner:

Animation relevance, design, palette, and cuteness/love.

Here are some of the cards our members made.

Hillary Hastings:

Tara Nester:

Emma Pennington:

Jinny Hinkle:

Matt Wydick:

The winner of the competition was Laura Mansfield,

with this creative Valentine:

She went home with a giant chocolate sea bass, courtesy of the ASC!

Week 3: Elephants and Freedom

This week we had a free drawing session. 

And we drew some elephants from images on Google for a while too.

Renee Taylor:

Matt Wydick:

Jinny Hinkle:

Emma Pennington: 

Hillary Hastings: