Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Emails I send out just to get people to do their homework...
Here is tonight's, happy Valentine's Day.
*Barry White plays in the background...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw
Hello baby.
I wanna tell you about homework. Yeah baby the homework that was assigned
today. You know the kind that was assigned while you made your beautiful
pencils move around on that paper.
Yeah babe. You may think this is going to take your whole life to do but you
can believe it will be due on Tuesday Feb 21. That's right baby, and you'll be
able to do it because, babe, you can't get enough homework babe.And when you do
it babe, I want you to just do it right there n your sketchbook babe.
So babe, you know when you open up your sketchbook and start workin' there ain't
no thang that's going stop you, so your gonna get in and get started doing a
grid for your room, babe. You know, just figgerin' out how all your stuff fits
in a room. No details or any other stuff that can get in the way of love, babe,
just basic shapes, babe. But this grid, you know you just can't get enough of
this grid thing, but babe, all you have to do is just one. One little page with
your beautiful pencils, babe.
Now you also have these five other location studies to do, babe, because you
just can't get enough of locations, babe. Now you're gonna open your
sketchbooks up and find a spot to draw. Now, baby, I know I told you I didn't
care what you drew for the other five and I don't, babe. So long as these
locations aren't from your standing height, babe. That's right I want you find
a spot other than standing that you can make those beautiful pencils swirl
around. yeah, babe, you can sit in a chair and see the world with your lovely
eyes as a person with lovely eyes sees the world for a siting position. Or,
babe, as you can't get enough locations, babe. Maybe try to lay yourself down
on the floor maybe in front of the cracklin' fire, babe. Be careful not to get
shavings from your beautiful pencils in the fur rug, babe. Draw the world with
your beautiful pencils from so low you just gotta know you're seeing things that
no standing person can see, babe. just draw 'em, babe. Don't you worry none
'bout just cubes or volumes or grids. Just you, your beautiful pencils and your
locations, babe.
Ah and honey, I don't want you to forget, babe, your cube rotation assignment,
babe. Twenty-five cubes of pure happiness, babe. 'cause babe, you just can't
get enougha these cubes, babe. So now, babe. just ease into your assignment and
let your beautiful pencils do their works of beauty and make beautiful things
that are beautiful. Cause Cube Rotation...can't get enougha this cube thang.
Cause Cube Rotation...can't get enougha this cube thang. Cause Cube
Rotation...can't get enougha this cube thang. Oh babe. Cause Cube
Rotation...can't get enougha this cube thang.....
*Barry White plays in the background...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw
Hello baby.
I wanna tell you about homework. Yeah baby the homework that was assigned
today. You know the kind that was assigned while you made your beautiful
pencils move around on that paper.
Yeah babe. You may think this is going to take your whole life to do but you
can believe it will be due on Tuesday Feb 21. That's right baby, and you'll be
able to do it because, babe, you can't get enough homework babe.And when you do
it babe, I want you to just do it right there n your sketchbook babe.
So babe, you know when you open up your sketchbook and start workin' there ain't
no thang that's going stop you, so your gonna get in and get started doing a
grid for your room, babe. You know, just figgerin' out how all your stuff fits
in a room. No details or any other stuff that can get in the way of love, babe,
just basic shapes, babe. But this grid, you know you just can't get enough of
this grid thing, but babe, all you have to do is just one. One little page with
your beautiful pencils, babe.
Now you also have these five other location studies to do, babe, because you
just can't get enough of locations, babe. Now you're gonna open your
sketchbooks up and find a spot to draw. Now, baby, I know I told you I didn't
care what you drew for the other five and I don't, babe. So long as these
locations aren't from your standing height, babe. That's right I want you find
a spot other than standing that you can make those beautiful pencils swirl
around. yeah, babe, you can sit in a chair and see the world with your lovely
eyes as a person with lovely eyes sees the world for a siting position. Or,
babe, as you can't get enough locations, babe. Maybe try to lay yourself down
on the floor maybe in front of the cracklin' fire, babe. Be careful not to get
shavings from your beautiful pencils in the fur rug, babe. Draw the world with
your beautiful pencils from so low you just gotta know you're seeing things that
no standing person can see, babe. just draw 'em, babe. Don't you worry none
'bout just cubes or volumes or grids. Just you, your beautiful pencils and your
locations, babe.
Ah and honey, I don't want you to forget, babe, your cube rotation assignment,
babe. Twenty-five cubes of pure happiness, babe. 'cause babe, you just can't
get enougha these cubes, babe. So now, babe. just ease into your assignment and
let your beautiful pencils do their works of beauty and make beautiful things
that are beautiful. Cause Cube Rotation...can't get enougha this cube thang.
Cause Cube Rotation...can't get enougha this cube thang. Cause Cube
Rotation...can't get enougha this cube thang. Oh babe. Cause Cube
Rotation...can't get enougha this cube thang.....
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Perspective: Building a Grid - Part One; 1PP
Started discussing using grids to make proportional perspective drawings in class today. Here is the first of several parts on the subject. This first one being a 'getting started/basics review' thingy. WARNING: The following are very crude note sketches that blew out in contrast when scanned, please forgive the crudity of the drawings herein.
1) As always begin with your horizon line (HL), intersect with the central vertical axis (CVA), and plot your station point (SP)
2) Measure the height from SP to center of vision. In this case I'm thinking the camera or viewer is at 6 feet. Then bring the distance down.
Before we forget it, find the median point (MP). For more info on that go here.
Bring convergence lines down to the measurements on the base line as shown in blue.
To start laying in the horizon lines to complete the grid, first we need to find a perfect square and we use the MP to do this. Remember, we need a perfect square otherwise the measurements will be off so refer again to the Perspective basics handout linked above.Now that you have found a square in distance, you can easily plot more grid lines as they move back toward the center of vision.
To do this, let's take a moment to discuss how to draw repeating objects in space. Above I have included a certain sized plane receding in space.
Find the center of the plane by connecting the opposing corners with lines as shown.
Draw a convergence line which passes through the direct center of the plane to the vanishing point (Step 1). Next draw a line from either of the nearest corners of the plane so that it passes the half division of the farthest side of the plane and continues to the opposite convergence line as shown in Step 2. Step 3, drop a line perpendicular to the horizon to the other convergence line.
Repeat the process as shown above. You now have same sized planes positioned right next to each other which recede proportionally in space.
Back to the grid, just use this process to place lines parallel as they recede. Here I have added the 'center line' of the nearest square.
Repeat the above steps as shown.
Soon you'll have yourself a quality grid that is based on true square as determined by the MP.
Here's an example of using a grid for a book I'm working on. (And you thought these are just random assignments to keep you from playing Call of Duty huh?) I will add more this soon. I will post more on this topic soon, stand by. For now I am going to wade through all the other stuff that is demanding my attention. Have fun drawing.
1) As always begin with your horizon line (HL), intersect with the central vertical axis (CVA), and plot your station point (SP)
2) Measure the height from SP to center of vision. In this case I'm thinking the camera or viewer is at 6 feet. Then bring the distance down.
Before we forget it, find the median point (MP). For more info on that go here.
Bring convergence lines down to the measurements on the base line as shown in blue.
To start laying in the horizon lines to complete the grid, first we need to find a perfect square and we use the MP to do this. Remember, we need a perfect square otherwise the measurements will be off so refer again to the Perspective basics handout linked above.Now that you have found a square in distance, you can easily plot more grid lines as they move back toward the center of vision.
To do this, let's take a moment to discuss how to draw repeating objects in space. Above I have included a certain sized plane receding in space.
Find the center of the plane by connecting the opposing corners with lines as shown.
Draw a convergence line which passes through the direct center of the plane to the vanishing point (Step 1). Next draw a line from either of the nearest corners of the plane so that it passes the half division of the farthest side of the plane and continues to the opposite convergence line as shown in Step 2. Step 3, drop a line perpendicular to the horizon to the other convergence line.
Repeat the process as shown above. You now have same sized planes positioned right next to each other which recede proportionally in space.
Back to the grid, just use this process to place lines parallel as they recede. Here I have added the 'center line' of the nearest square.
Repeat the above steps as shown.
Soon you'll have yourself a quality grid that is based on true square as determined by the MP.
Here's an example of using a grid for a book I'm working on. (And you thought these are just random assignments to keep you from playing Call of Duty huh?) I will add more this soon. I will post more on this topic soon, stand by. For now I am going to wade through all the other stuff that is demanding my attention. Have fun drawing.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Horizon Lines and Wide/telephotos
No matter what height, horizon line is constant, use it in your drawings always. 
Do you know which image uses a telephoto lens? (No children were placed in danger to capture these photos.) Top: 55mm (standard) bottom: 300mm (telephoto). Notice how the far background leaps forward while the middle ground compresses. What happens in telephoto is teh station point remains in the same place but the vanising points move farther away from each other. Conversely, in a fish eye lens (extreme wide angle)n the VPs are pushed closer together, bending convergence creating a view that describes a great deal of space but through massive distortion.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Supplies and Text Books
Welcome to 2D Animation class! There are lots of things I recommend getting as you begin you studies in this most rewarding of topics. Some things are required and some are recommended, so I threw together some visual aids for the books and supplies students will need this semester, because reading it off the syllabus was just not cool enough.
First off, text books. You will need these, if nothing else, to have on your shelf so when you get interviewed, you look smart.
Buy it here!
Buy it here!
Buy it here!
There are so many other great books...you'll wish you had more eyes. Now, there may be PDF versions of these...nothing beats having a text laying right there waiting for you to flip through the pages but digital versions DO make your backpack lighter. Whichever works for you digital age babies.
Supplies
Col-Erase pencils; the blue and the Carmine red, because the scarlet red isn't really red but more orange-y. I think there is secret guerrilla police force that will club you senseless if you use yellow, light/lime green, or light violet to draw with, SO DON'T DO IT!! Who would blame them? Yellow colored pencil indeed...mumble mumble mutter mutter. 
Prismacolor pencils, specifically PC935 black, I love you PC935. China markers/grease pencils, when used with SMOOTH newsprint (below) it's magical. X-acto knife to sharpen with.
Random pens. Low maintenance on supplies, use what works.
Brush pens and other pens. I really like the Faber-Castell PITT pens. They cost more...
Smooth newsprint SMOOTH...because we all know there is big difference between smooth and rough. I mean roads...smooth roads and rough roads...rough roads are really bumpy...what were you thinking about? Ahem.
Animation peg bar.
Animation paper.
A light box as sold on Amazon.com
A lot of time to devote to your work. A. Lot. Of. Time. no more 13 hours of WOW for you. Is this not a cool clock though?
Something to keep you awake and working-pick your poison. Me, I love Peet's as you can tell by the image above which I shamefully stole but don't remember where I got it from (apparently from somebody named Clemson's Flickr account). Sorry Clemson. Or you may need this:
Or even this:
Mmm coffee....I should just strap this to my back.
You will also need:
This really doesn't need a caption does it?
That's right, soap. I know you guys stay up all night working on your assignments but one word; HYGIENE! People! Ge-awd! But definitely this:
Do you know what Dang-man is? It's when your breath is so bad, people say, "Dang...man?!" At least some of this:
Or these (Yay, Curious George! Get it? get it? hello?)
He would eat all the boxes...The Man in the Yellow Hat would not be happy. If you don't know who Curious George or The Man in the Yellow Hat is...Welcome to Earth...loser.
...And a sorry card like this one. Because you'll be working and will miss a date...or two...or three or fourty-seven. Have fun and rewarding semester.
First off, text books. You will need these, if nothing else, to have on your shelf so when you get interviewed, you look smart.
There are so many other great books...you'll wish you had more eyes. Now, there may be PDF versions of these...nothing beats having a text laying right there waiting for you to flip through the pages but digital versions DO make your backpack lighter. Whichever works for you digital age babies.
Supplies
Col-Erase pencils; the blue and the Carmine red, because the scarlet red isn't really red but more orange-y. I think there is secret guerrilla police force that will club you senseless if you use yellow, light/lime green, or light violet to draw with, SO DON'T DO IT!! Who would blame them? Yellow colored pencil indeed...mumble mumble mutter mutter. 
Prismacolor pencils, specifically PC935 black, I love you PC935. China markers/grease pencils, when used with SMOOTH newsprint (below) it's magical. X-acto knife to sharpen with.
Random pens. Low maintenance on supplies, use what works.
Brush pens and other pens. I really like the Faber-Castell PITT pens. They cost more...
Smooth newsprint SMOOTH...because we all know there is big difference between smooth and rough. I mean roads...smooth roads and rough roads...rough roads are really bumpy...what were you thinking about? Ahem.
Animation peg bar.
Animation paper.
A light box as sold on Amazon.com
A lot of time to devote to your work. A. Lot. Of. Time. no more 13 hours of WOW for you. Is this not a cool clock though?
Something to keep you awake and working-pick your poison. Me, I love Peet's as you can tell by the image above which I shamefully stole but don't remember where I got it from (apparently from somebody named Clemson's Flickr account). Sorry Clemson. Or you may need this:You will also need:
This really doesn't need a caption does it?
That's right, soap. I know you guys stay up all night working on your assignments but one word; HYGIENE! People! Ge-awd! But definitely this:
...And a sorry card like this one. Because you'll be working and will miss a date...or two...or three or fourty-seven. Have fun and rewarding semester.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Model Sheets Continued
Working on stuff...
And right after posting this, I realized how still the waking bear is and whipped out a more silhouetted one. This goes back to the comment, "Push it." Guess I outa play the music...you know.
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