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:

My Updated Animation Reel

Tom Davis 2013 Animation Reel from Tom Davis on Vimeo.

SNY "More Sports" 15 Second TV Spot

I recently had the pleasure of animating this :15 second TV spot for Sports New York for Real Art. I did all the animation from start-to-finish, and I'm very proud of it! It's all hand-drawn, and I got the chance to use some multiples and smears - something that I really geeked out on. Buck did 4 :30 second spots and they set the tone... the look, feel, pacing, etc with their spots - my job was to animate this in a way that it stayed consistent with what they had already done. It turned out great! Andy Nick art-directed it. Jamie Golsch managed the project. I had some help coloring in some of the sequences from Susan Jauss and Shelby White. Adam Haroff did the sound design. Debbie and Arturo from Real Art's new york office wrote the script, worked with the client and with Buck on their :30 spots, and gave our team creative freedoms that really allowed this thing to shine. Proving that even though you may get to animate the whole thing - it really is a team effort at it's core. I'm looking forward to doing more hand-drawn animation in the very near future!

SNY MoreSports 15 Second Spot from Tom Davis on Vimeo.