Dragons

FX Animation - Fire

I recently took another really cool class on animating fire by Michel Gagne at taughtbyapro.com and thought I'd share the results. I think my favorite part of this lesson was the undercurrent texture that is animated faster than the looping flame - it really adds some appeal in my opinion.

FX Animation Exercise - Looping Flame from Tom Davis on Vimeo.

Character Design Exercise

Recently, I've been taking a couple of online courses at taughtbyapro.com - the latest being a Character Design course taught by Tom Bancroft. Here's a nifty little character design exercise I'm pretty happy with - the assignment being "5 designs for a generic 12 year old boy." I call him Willy!

For Matt

Draw A Bird Day

I haven't posted anything in quite some time, so I thought I'd get back on here and start doing that again. Last week someone at work mentioned that it was "National Draw-a-Bird Day", so I did this little doodle of a Grey Heron. Pretty much just because I like Grey Herons. But I had so much fun doing it that I did a second drawing the next day of my fav little bird that visits my bird feeders - the Chickadee! So here they are: