It's raining men!

[pasithea]

Well, okay, not really. Just that at times I seem to live on the isle of Lesbos, secluded, secluded from guys. Funny. I really don't know very much about them, you'd think I would, but they seem really weird to me for the most part.

Anyhow, I've been on a semi-androphobic bent for a few weeks now. These moods come and go without much rhyme or reason, though I suspect it's because of the war and the clouds of testoterone waifted out of the whitehouse. Whatever the reason, I saw this photo yesterday. Snapped me right out of it. ;) Now, you know... I'd like fully support a war if this was all that happened in it. Buff guys nekkid in the desert, glistening with water. I say screw all this killing people and name calling and blowing things up let's have more hot nekkid british airmen. ;)

The other man in my life right now is the Blacksmith. He's paka's character design for the story he had for the animation project. I _SO_ like him. Big beautiful arcs, really strong dynamic keyframes.
He's just so easy to draw and throw all this personality into. He's got great stretch and squash characteristics and feels really fluid too. Our goal for this week was to do some pencil tests of the various characters. Hope I can get done in time for Thursday. I love the smith, I'll have some roughs of him done tonight. The stone mason has a different feel when I draw him. He's more mechanical in his movements, really kind of stiff at times, but I like him too. Now the carpenter... I'm having a tough time with him. I want to make him move sort of wobbly and willy nilly but I'm just having a difficult time getting into his personality. He'll probably be last on my list to draw.

Still. GREAT set of characters. They're all physically different and give me different personality feels which means I want to draw each of them different. See! this is why I think Paka deserves the animation lead title. My character choices would have been much more plastic.

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

So THAT'S the picture.

Ok, that set me straight.

;)

[paka.livejournal.com]

Thanks! By the way, I feel like a total slacker, as I've not done any of the motion tests. My gut feeling on the carpenter is that he's sort of a frantic, clumsy guy - a lot of his movements have few inbetweens, followed by some short holds (8 frames or so), then back to moving choppily. Which means of course I need to sit down and draw it.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Hee. I haven't done any motion yet eiether. I was hoping to do some while in class tonight. :)

I wonder if 'I pencil-animated this in puppet animation class' has been used on Velar yet.