Spike a' la Lah

I've been messing around drawing Spike and ended up animating this pointless little bit here. I was trying to emulate some Michael Lah style running and I don't think I really succeeded. Though I think the split second when Spike is starting to run in place came out OK. I think it even looks like Spike in one or two drawings :) It's pretty sloppy and rushed but I just wanted to animate something, anything. I added music (cut up pieces of Scott Bradley scores) because I can't help myself, and it's not quite as boring to watch.

A Bunch Of Crap

Here's a bunch of crap from the last day or so. I'm trying to focus on drawing without using a reference. Most of these are from model sheets and screenshots but a couple are without reference. I'm sure it's easy to pick them out.

Donald Heads

I was sitting on my ass watching the Spurs/Suns game last night and decided to do something more constructive. So I drew some Donald heads while sitting on my ass watching the game. The front view drawing came out real bad, but the Suns went on a run to pull within 10 with a about four minutes left. I wasn't paying too much attention to detail while drawing that one. It was a good game, I would've liked the series to go to seven games though. Both teams are fun to watch. Though I was rooting for the Spurs. Tim Duncan rules, even though he killed my Knicks in the '99 finals.

Finally, A New Post

I haven't spent much time drawing from cartoons lately so I decided to just sit down and freeze frame some cartoons. I'm real rusty so they didn't come out very good. I realized that I never really sat down and drew Bugs Bunny, which is odd because he's my favorite next to Screwy Squirrel. I did a couple of drawings of Charlie Horse from Bob Clampett's "It's A Grand Ol' Nag". I had a real tough time with his legs. There's a couple of drawings from Barney Bear cartoons too. I need to sit down and work on animating which I keep saying I'm going to do but never do. Lazy.

Random Stuff

More practice from model sheets and screenshots. The only one I'm happy with is the Pluto drawing.

I tried copying Pat Matthews animation in "The Greatest Man In Siam". It came out pretty bad, that scene is so incredible it's ridiculous.

More Spike

I'm still spending most of the time that I draw practicing drawing Spike and here's a few more. I'm trying to get a handle on him so that I can start working on my drawing my own poses and maybe even animate something using him. Hopefully they'll be a noticeable improvement in my own drawings. These were drawn from a Bobe Cannon scene in "Wags To Riches". I guess it's Bobe Cannon day on my blogs.

Spike

Here's some sketches of Tex Avery's Spike. These are all from screen grabs from "Garden Gopher". I don't have any model sheets of Spike so freeze framing the cartoons is the only reference I have. Anyone have any high res scan of a Spike model sheet?

Michael Lah Study

I've always loved Michael Lah's animation, so I decided to copy a scene of his from "Droopy's Good Deed" to try and get an understanding of how he animates those hilarious walks and runs. Here's the first part, I'm going to keep working on the rest of this short scene.

Spike

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"Robin Hoodlum"

I absolutely love the Fox and Crow cartoon "Robin Hoodlum", the backgrounds, animation and character designs are all fantastic. Oh and most of all it's funny. Here's some quick sketches I did while watching it, they're pretty rough.

Tom Fast Run Cycle

In one page of Preston Blair's book he has a four drawing run cycle of Tom. I decided to try and copy them. I realize it's no great feat to copy someone else's animation drawings and pass them off as your own but my goal when copying them was to pay attention to keeping them as close to the original drawings as possible. I have a tendency to get sloppy and have trouble keeping my drawings from getting smaller or larger from frame to frame.

Tom fast run cycle

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Tom fast run (color)

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I inked and colored it just for fun

Pencil Test

I finally downloaded the rest of Nat Falk's "How To Make Animated Cartoons" from the Animation Archive the other day and decided to print out that and Preston Blair's original printing of his book and combine it with a load of model sheets and bind it all up. Now I've got everything nice and organized, instead of having papers all over the place.

I was reading Nat Falk's book and the last page had pictures of two key drawings and suggested as practice to then go and draw the breakdown and inbetweens. So I figured I'd give it go. Here's my feable attempt. Excuse the sloppyness, I didn't use a light box or peg bar. Also, I inserted blanks so as not to screw up the timing. I don't like looking at held poses where there should be inbetweens. I'm going to finish this off I think and then try working from the other keys.

Scared Dog

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Temperamental Lion

Just working on this awesome model sheet from the Terrytoon "The Temperamental Lion" that was posted on the Animation Archive. I think the biggest problem I'm having is that I'm drawing his legs to long.

Apple Andy Studies

I've really love the great poses in "Apple Andy" so I've been freeze framing it and drawing them. This is one of my all time favorite cartoons.