CORNISH: "DRAWING FOR MOTION" CLASS

Assignment 02: "Moving Figures"

This assignment required students to draw each other in a studio environment, all modeling once, sequentially, around a central platform. Successive students changed position and pose from the previous one and the rest had 5-minutes to capture the essential gesture of the pose. Students were then required to use their imaginations to create an inbetween position from pose to pose, then treat everything in a visual style of their choice. The final drawings were ultimately rendered to a movie format. The most successful of these assignments were as follows...

CORNISH: "2D ANIMATION 02"

Assignment 02: "Character Walk - Design & Animate"

Having first studied the process of animating a supplied vector-based, rigged character walking using ToonBoom Studio', students were next asked here to design their own character & matching multi-level environment, then have that character walk through the environment for several seconds. The following are the most successful of these...

CORNISH: "DRAWING FOR MOTION" CLASS

Assignment 01: "Chair"

In the first 'Chair' assignment students were asked to complete a series of 5-minute, sequential poses of a chair within a fixed background. The objective was to draw the chair in a planned sequence of poses. Emphasis needed to be both on perspective and location within the studio platform, with students always drawing the chair from the same perspective. When all the major positions are drawn (in this case 7 major positions) students were required to draw 6 inbetween positions - from deduction and memory - to refine the sequence. The resulting 13 drawings, colored (using a technique of the students' own choice) were then rendered onto a video clip, using 12 frame dissolves. The final result was as follows...

CORNISH: "2D ANIMATION 02"

Assignment 01: "Bouncing Ball"

Students are required to take their pencil-animated 'Bouncing Ball' QuickTime movie, import it into ToonBoom Studio, trace and color the animation, add a background image of their choice and render everything to a final QuickTime movie. The following are their final movie clips, completed on the first day of class...