Wanted: Handy Man

[pasithea]

So... After procrastinating all weekend, I finally sat down to work on the bunny yesterday evening. There are some photos here, if you want to traumatize yourself. Yes. This is the harsh dark reality of cute an happy animation. Overweight women sitting around in their underwear, hunched over an animation disc that's propped up on milk crates, a pint of Guinness in easy reach. O_O That quote from Mike Jittlov, "And this is the way animation should be! keeps ringing (wrongly) in my head. ... I'm thinking that if I ever happen to finish a movie worth watching that I'll now have to call myself, Studio Slovenly ... It's honest and has sort of a nice alliteration to it.

Anyhow, back to what I really wanted to talk about: Hands No... that wasn't quite emphatic enough. Let's try again:

HANDS

There. *sigh* I thought I'd figured out how to draw hands... and by in large I have figured out how to draw small cartoon hands. Last night, I tried doing a close-up/high-angle drawing of the two holding hands and the girl pulling her hand away from the Bunny Boy's hand... Turns out, I'd never drawn hands from this angle, nor had I ever drawn them large. The type of hands I've been drawing look fine up to about 1" across, but at 6 or 7 inches across they totally break down and look awful. Adding detail makes them look too weathered. Very frustrating. *sigh* So I guess there's not much for it except to study. It's just sort of disappointing and crippling to my confidence. I really though I'd finally got hands down.

Maybe I should do all my animations about Powerpuff girls and the Schmoo.

Comments

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Whatever else was in Chemical X, we are fairly sure there was some thorazine?
AUGH Cute handless girls, ahh!

And if it is any consolation, Paka has recently discovered the same truth about scale.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

You look so -- comfy. Not just or so much 'sitting on the floor relaxed comfy' but 'this is what I LIKE to DO' comfy.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Yeah. *sigh* If I had the talent or the money, animation, gardening, and hiking would probably be the only things I'd ever do. I love animation, even if I'm not very good at it and even if I do end up struggling a lot, there's something about it that brings me some really deep sense of joy.

I guess also I can be really narcisistic about it. When I do finally finish a piece, I often just sit and watch it in a loop like 20 or 30 times. I dunno. I'm just totally utterly fascinated with the motion and also I want to figure out what I can do to make the next one better. I wish I could pull off being a real animator. But then again, if I did it for a living, making someone else's ideas for commercial profit, I probably wouldn't enjoy it nearly as much. :/
It's too bad america isn't more like Canada. Healthcare and grants for animation sound pretty good.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Demoting yourself to ink-n-paint already?

Gloves are for when you don't want to muss the final cels, not for when you're drawing! Take a look at the glorious messes that are the key drawings of Glen Keane...

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Actually, the only reason I wear gloves is because my hands get cold. :)
I do all my ink and paint digitally.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Photos of 'the girls in ink and paint' is what those little white gloves bring to mind. All those photographs of the old days of Disney, you know?

If your hand's getting cold, it's possible you're abusing it by holding the pencil too tightly.