"Debate Team" animation: Blocking 1

So I'm finally back to animating non-Flash stuff.  Which is a relief.

I made one blocking pass on each character.  I tried out making a keyframe every 10 frames, and then adding necessary poses in between those when needed.  This is the first piece I've heavily used video reference for, and even though it's in a step-keyed blocking phase, I think it's showing.  I used to have an issue with reference footage where I feel it's sort of cheating.  Well, I still do, but I've realized it's illogical and I need to get over it.  At least I shot the footage myself, so it's still all my own work.

Anyway, I'll be making second passes on both characters, to get a keyframe at least every 5 frames.  My last attempted project I jumped into polish far far too soon, and it ultimately killed the project for me.  I'm going to block the hell out of this one, probably making a 3rd pass to make sure there's poses ever 2-4 frames or so before I dig into polish.

Audio clip is from "Strangers With Candy," Season 1, Episode 7

Music Experimentations

I made this little recording as practice the other day:



This is a cover of Avishai Cohen Trio's "Seattle."  I had transcribed that bit of the song by ear a while ago, and I finished transcribing the rest last night.  As is probably obvious, I decided to transcribe it as 2 separate guitar parts, mixing them hard right and left to make it really spacious.

Here's the full transcription as of last night:




I plan on making a prog-rock-fusion cover of this song, hopefully enlisting the help of one or two other people.  We'll see how that goes.

Here's the original song:

Some drawings and some other drawings. Also some more drawings.

Here's a guy I drew last night for the "Post-Apocalypse" category on http://www.reddit.com/r/SketchDaily :


Turned out a little too similar to TF2's pyro, but I noticed that a little too late in the process.


Here's a drawing I did on a lunch break at James Gibson's request to draw a "T-rex exercising."



This is another James request: "Burger Fishing"



here's some assorted sketches:

Large post of assorted things. Also some stuff.

I did another one of my drawing request things a few days ago. Sorry I didn't get to everyone, but I might get to more if I have time this week.


David Szmit - "a mountain of dead rabbits"



Brittani Franco - "a wolf puking fire"



James Gibson - "The deepest, innermost personification of your soul."



Kimberly Sanders - "Draw meeeeeee!"



I did some drawings while watching 28 Days Later. The last half of the movie makes me somewhat uncomfortable after having watched Christopher Eccleston in Doctor Who.



Some music stuff:

Wrote this while I was recording it. drums were done after everything else was completely recorded, which was an interesting method to try out.


Self-indulgent, largely improvised, spacey guitar work. One of the chord progressions evolved into the above song.


Cover of the first few minutes of the Exivious song "Waves of Thought"


Changed the mix and guitar effects on the song I recorded a month or two back.

Self Portrait

This took me longer than I care to admit. Actually, I wasn't keeping track of how long it took so there's nothing to admit.

This is probably the first photoshop painting I've done where I didn't start with line art, and one of the few that didn't make me ragequit halfway through.


Also, I covered a bit of an Exivious song a few days ago. This song is murder on my fingers with all the jazz chords, but since I started learning it I've already noticed some improvement in my other playing, which progress is normally slow enough that I don't notice it.



http://soundcloud.com/ryanimation/waves-of-thought-cover

Still a lot of mistakes, and I can't play the solos at all, but I'll get there hopefully.