Monday, January 31, 2011

Wendy's Box



Here's an assignment from over a year ago. We had to have Wendy walk on screen with one emotion, notice the box, react to its contents with a contrasting emotion and run off. After completing this assignment I felt I had finally begun to grasp this animation thing.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Wipe and Erase

This was a one hour long pose done in life drawing class. I used a technique we recently learned called wipe and erase, where you begin with a mid-tone (smeared conte) and repeatedly alternate between drawing and erasing until you have a nice balance. The left foot looks small to me here but I think it's the way the paper was rolled during the photo.

Done on a 24" x 36" sheet of newsprint.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Flight of the Steve


My DSi came pre-installed with a handy little animation app called Flipnote Studio. DSs are easy to carry around and the screens are small so I don't get too carried away animating. Here's a little looping animation of my friend Steve flying through the sky.


Note: Steve doesn't actually smoke. I made that part up.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Sidestep Assignment

Here's a simple animation done in digital class, using Toon Boom Harmony. We were given 3 views of the character to manipulate into doing a sidestep.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Film Character Turnarounds

A turnaround for my third year independent film character. For my own visual reference.

Also, the coloured version.

I should have some animation tests to post soonish.



Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Dog Walk Animation


Here's my dog walk from the first semester of third year. It features Kaltag from the animated film Balto.


Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Dog Studies

From when we drew dog skeletons (plastic) in life drawing. The next part was adding muscles.


Drawn on top on a sheet of tracing paper using coloured pencil.



Here's the whole shebang.

I'll see if I can figure out how to upload my dog walk animation...

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Old Stuff

The following is a comic page written and photographed by my buddies and me in Pre-Animation at Algonquin.

It was heavily Monty Python inspired. (BTW, I'm the fellow on the left)


Featured in the comic is my fantastic pal Rebbecca David. Some time ago I envisioned her as a crab. Here's a link to her blog!


Saturday, January 22, 2011

Friday, January 21, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011

A Caricature


Caricature of filmmaker Michael Moore, done for design class at the end of second year. I'll render him in my spare time perhaps.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Secret Santa Painting



Our year did a Secret Santa where we had to pull a name and draw that person a picture. Hey, I never got mine.

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I used acrylic paint on an 8" x 10" canvas.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Suburban Laboratory

An establishing shot.



And a quick blue tonal test for an interior BG.


Monday, January 17, 2011

Dr. Calamar E. Decapus

Time for an older piece:



My first design for Decapus and Chum. I really can't look at it anymore. When I decided to make a film with these two I knew I'd need to make lots of revisions. Here are a couple pages I found:




Here he still has the box head but loses the gloves. I thought the mantle would be too annoying to animate.




But I added it and it stuck.




And here he is.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Late Introduction


My name is Scott Lewis. I'm Canadian and midway through my final year of Animation at Algonquin College. This year we've been given the exciting chance to create our own independent films. Mine stars Dr. Decapus, squid mad scientist, and his assistant Chum the fish head.

I'll post more about my film in the coming weeks.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

For Julien

Happy Birthday! Even though it was a month and a half ago.

I'll colour it properly when I have some time.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! I don't feel like typing an introduction yet but here's some art:


Painted in Acrylic on a sheet of canvas pad. I forget the size. Given to my friend Dave (featured in the painting) for his birthday. He's supposed to resemble a character from Super Smash Bros. he uses a lot. I hadn't used paint in years so this was very fun.


Edit: This isn't a ranting sort of blog but I need to vent. Websites that forcibly and unexpectedly play music are the most annoying things I can currently imagine. It's quite late and I wasn't expecting music to blast from my speakers. And I doubt the sleeping people were either.